Charlie and the Chocolate Spectacular

Rating: 8/10 (24 May 2011)

This film is great. I'll start with music (done by Charlie Kaufman), as it really adds to the splendid and majestic tone of the film, as does the cinematography, the lighting and the production stages. It's just all round a fantastic film, apart from...the umper lumper's...they are terrible incarnations of the mini men compared to the first movies realisation of them. I have mentioned the score of the movie was great, but unfortunately that's not the case in relation to the umper lumper's. The songs sung by the aforementioned mini men were pure disaster zones: I only found one of the tunes mildly engaging and that was the number which played out after the 'spoilt' little 'rich girl' fell into the garbage shoot. Other than that, they were all uninspiring, dull, cheesy and sounded cheap.
Anyway, back to the good points about this film; the dialogue, the kids, Charlie's family, the acting and most of all Willy Wonka himself. From the ghastly gasp he takes when a child tries to hugs him to the quick witted irony of the statement, "your weird" which he directs towards the 'spoilt' girl's father. Each nuanced flinch and disgusted glance from Willy Wonka aka the brilliant Johnny Depp, simply brought this enchanted fairytale to life and gave the movie real gravitas.
So, to conclude, Depps dope, the kids kick ass and Tim Burton basically bags another bright, bold and beautiful nod from me for a truly genius film.