total DISAPPOINTMENT

Rating: 1/10 (8 August 2005)

And yes I meant for it all to be capitalized. It's really annoying that there are so many good reviews about this film. I agree with all you who gave it nothing but a 1. I saw this movie a few weeks ago and I must say I didn't walk out with smile on my face. For starters, the special fx were overdone and hardly any of the movie looked real. The fact that the oompa loompas were all played by Deep Roy is just plain creepy, and their songs...yuck! The music was so loud it was hard to hear the lyrics. And now for Depp.. He should never of even thought of taking this role. I know this has been said before, but he was too much Micheal Jacksonesque. It just didn't have the magic of the 1971 Gene Wilder original. The thing I missed most was the classic oompa loompa song which was cute and childlike. But no Danny Elfman had to come in and completely mess it up. The humor of Charlie's dad stealing the toothpaste cap (or whatever it was) wasn't right. None of the kids seemed to have learned from their mistakes, and their parents didn't show any emotion about whatever was happening to the kid ( Augusta's mom didn't scream when he was being sucked up the pipe) like she did in the original, And Veruka's dad instead of being thrown in the "bad egg" shoot with her, was carried along by the squirrels following her.
Overall Freddie Highmore as Charlie was OK but that's it. If you enjoyed the original I would suggest don't bother seeing this piece of garbage.