Original films are always better than their remakes.

Rating: 9/10 (8 August 2005)

Charlie and the chocolate factory is a great film but i think it is pointless. Re-makes of films are never as good as the original although this 1 comes close. The characters are similar and Johnny Depp plays a great Willy Wonka. Charlie and the chocolate factory is finished off better, it has a more complex ending and feels completed unlike Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory. Although there are no songs in this Charlie and the chocolate factory apart from the oopmah loompah songs about the children most of the words are the same as the original so its just a copy of Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory. In the book and Charlie and the chocolate factory, they use squirrels as the animals which get rid of Veruca salt however in Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory they use swans that lay golden eggs, Because the director and script writer wanted to be slightly original. Therefore I think Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory is better than Charlie and the chocolate factory.