Almost as bad as Lemony Snicket

Rating: 4/10 (6 November 2005)

Luckily this movie focuses on the family and on mostly positive things in the end, whereas Lemony Snicket was pretty much drab and negative throughout. Depp's voice is irritating and it's very strange to me that they chose to use only one person to play all of the Ompa Loompas. If you've watched Lemony Snicket then you've pretty much watched this movie. Both my wife and I said to ourselves that this movie was a complete waste of about 1h 40m. If you compare it to the original Chocolate Factory you just scratch your head and wonder what they hoped to accomplish in this movie. I look at the average rating for this movie at the time I'm writing this and see 7.5/10 and wonder what everyone else is thinking of. Maybe I'm just old fashioned but I really don't understand what is so good about this movie that it would deserve even an average rating.