If it's not broke.....

Rating: 6/10 (25 July 2005)

First I must start out by saying "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" is my all time favorite movie. There I said it, now lets talk about this Luke warm attempt at a re-make.
Loved Johnny Depp, the trailers don't do him justice, but he does give Willy a creepy Michael Jackson quality.
The movie starts off really wonderfully, I was excited to hear the kids reactions when there was no golden ticket and when there was. It gives me a warm fuzzy to hear those innocent reactions to story they haven't heard yet. So that said....
The factory. Tim Burton can not tell a story or convey the magic of the original. He even said in an interview he never liked the original and also wanted to remake the story. He needs to go back and read the book and find the story. His transitions are boring and uneventful. His characters are lost and unlikeable. Unlikeable, but we really don't care what happens whether their good or bad.
A friend summed up this movie in a nutshell. "Image visiting a house you grew up in, it's been remodeled and new people live there, and you just feel awkward being there."
I can't recommend seeing this flick, because it just encourages Hollywood to keep remaking and ruining classic movies. Just look at this summer "War of the World", "Willy Wonka", "Bad News Bears", "Herbie", "Amittyville", "Wax Works" etc. There's slump in the box office, according to Hollywood, and it's because of this rehash trash.