Pointless remake of a grand classic

Rating: 2/10 (8 December 2007)

This movie is total garbage. Seriously lacks the soul that the original has. Of course thats to be expected considering its done by Hollywood's supreme master of over doing it Tim Burton. JUst another addition to a long list of stories this guy has massacred. Johhny Depp is a great actor but his performance in this is terrible. He is very annoying and trying far too hard to seem eccentric. It was very hard to watch for me. Everything about this movie tries far to hard to achieve something it just could not. Using one actor for all the umpa Lumpas was a big mistake also. Freddie Highmore is great but the casting for the rest of the children was awful. I find it pointless that this project was even attempted at all. It is stupid to remake classic movies that are under 40 years old.
Stick with the original, it is far better.