Why darken a light movie??

Rating: 7/10 (17 July 2005)

With today's technology and acceptance of many different creative directions in film art, this movie does have it's accomplishments. Trying to "remake" the fantastic Willie Wonka movie in Tim Burton style was a downer for me and my party. Many things seemed out of place --"why did he put that in there??" and many characters and elements of the original movie where duplicated in a strange sort of way that I'm sure Burton enjoyed, but...what about the rest of us. Yes, it's fashionable to say "I liked it" But deep down, I think about half of those that said they enjoyed it thoroughly, deep down had their doubts. See it. Don't buy it.