Quality film

Rating: 9/10 (16 June 2009)

I've seen hat this film seems to have either very positive or very negative reviews, and in my opinion the majority of the negative ones are unjustified.
A lot of people don't seem to understand that the story is from a book by Roald Dahl, and was not invented by the original film. This version stays a lot closer to the original Roald Dahl story, and I'm sure many people that read that book will notice the effort that the director has gone to to recreate the feel of the original illustrations on screen. Several people writing comments on here have complained about the "addition" of the glass lift and the squirrels etc. These are elements from the book, which the older film chose to leave out. Also, I've seen people complaining about the omission of the part in the other film where Charlie and the grandfather start floating around after drinking some kind of magic drink from the factory. This was never in the book, and I'm not sure why people loved this totally unnecessary scene so much.
Basically, this film sticks far more to the book the the other one did, and I don't think it's fair to criticise it for that (especially seeing as Roald Dahl reportedly hate the original film for changing his story so much). If you loved the book, then this film is probably much more how you imagined the story, and in my opinion is far superior to the dark and creepy older film.