Didn't Quite live up to my expectation.

Rating: 4/10 (30 January 2018)

Visually it's not bad, I find that the children were convincing and they played their roles just fine. Willy Wonka seemed odd (not in an entertaining way). His character seemed shallow and spouted nonsense and giggled alot. Gene's portrayal was deep, he had charisma and he was like a deck of cards. Most of all, Gene was a really good singer and that added more to his role. I give them credit, the chocolate river was pretty cool. In the 70's film, it was a dirty looking river. I watched the "behind the scenes" clips and they put in a lot of effort on working on an actual chocolate river. That alone did bump up my score higher than what I was originally going to set it. In conclusion, I thought the movie could have done better. Visually, it was pretty great and some of the roles played by the children weren't have bad either. The other roles fell much shorter. I'm giving this a 4 because it had potential but, fell short to my expectations.