This Chocolate Tastes Bad

Rating: 2/10 (7 August 2005)

Horrible. I saw this movie last night and I really hated it. I wasn't hoping for an exact remake of the great original, and, with Burton directing, I wasn't disappointed in that regard.
I suppose, for me, it was just a bad marriage of director and movie. It could have been good in another directors hands. But Burton makes ...his own style, I guess you could say. He's made some movies I have really liked: Edward Scissorhands, for example. This, his latest effort, just falls flat for me.
Depp is creepy as Willy Wonka, and that's not really what I wanted. I could never get into the character at all.
If this version of Willy Wonka had been the original, trust me it would not have became a beloved classic.
There is simply no way that this movie will be remembered thirty plus years from now as the original one is today.