Awful!

Rating: 1/10 (6 September 2005)

What a terrible film! Drab and uninspired, messy and full of some poor special effects, (especially Violet's demise); with a glass elevator sequence taken straight from the equally bad Hitchhiker's Guide film. And Johnny Depp - what happened to him? I love the man, but he was asleep for most of this film. And as for the dialogue, it's dull and full of out of place expressions, (what are the grandpas doing talking about candy and pants?). The whole film seems poorly constructed as a hasty series of poorly written scenes. And the idea behind the Oompa Lumpas was a mistake from the start, (and poorly cast with it). What a huge disappointment when the idea of Tim Burton, Danny Elfman, and Johnny Depp reunited on this project seemed so promising.