a dream with chocolate taste

Rating: 10/10 (17 September 2005)

Wonderful!Wonderful!What a surprise!!I didn't know neither the original film nor Dahl's book,I have to confess.Also,well,ugh,I am 34 y.o.but I really enjoyed the movie.Its didactic message is so clear and nice presented and the overall quotations makes the movie a feast for adults.I find strange that no one remarked,as I did,some quotations the director makes in the movie:Wonka is a Michael Jackson-like person,but also has elements from "The Clockwork orange".We can feel Kubrick also in other moments,with some real quotes-the TV program is in fact "2001" by Kubrick as the music is.Apart Kubrick,some Orson Wells and Alfred Hitchkok are present.It might be a creepy mix but the result is wonderful equilibrated, aesthetically awesome,glorious played.The Dickens-Beckett atmosphere that you find in Charlie's house is not,paradoxically,gripping,haunting and depressing-it has something nice,happy,full of light. This is really a nice family movie,and makes you forget the kitschy,nightmare movies for children that invaded the cinemas in last five years. Not to be missed.10/10