like a giant playground

Rating: 10/10 (18 July 2005)

I loved this movie. I love anything with Johnny Depp, and I consider Tim Burton a genius, but biases aside, this movie was so much...fun! There's no other word for it.
Quite a few people are saying that this is much less "family friendly" than the old one--but most of my friends agree that the old one frightened us as children. This one is much less sinister in its undertones, and contains much more emphasis on the value of family, which I really appreciated.
The movie is silly, ridiculous, almost unbelievable--but Burton makes it something you *want* to believe. He also sticks extremely close to the original book--the Oompa Loompa songs are taken almost directly from Roald Dahl's words. This movie made me laugh and laugh and feel like a kid again--the whole magical Wonka world really comes alive.
The ending dragged on a *bit* too long--and the added bits with Christopher Lee were a little unnecessary. But overall, this movie is one worth watching again and again.