Very Good - and faithful!

Rating: 10/10 (8 August 2005)

This film is very good! It is well scripted and very funny (especially Willy Wonka!). They are VERY faithful to the book, unlike the first movie. They used squirrels cracking nuts (as it is in the book, no geese laying eggs - what do eggs have to do with chocolate?????) They even included Prince Pondicherry's Chocolate Palace, and the children coming out of the factory at the end - which was a nice surprise! I also liked the fact that all the Oompa Loompa's songs contained the original lyrics from the book, and that Deep Roy played them all! The flash backs were also a very clever idea: a good way to show what was written in the book! They counted out all of the pointless and made-up things that were in the first film: Charlie and Grampa Joe burping, making them fly and that weird man who is Wonka's assistant that makes the children collect the everlasting gob-stoppers! Overall, a FANTASTIC film, I say: GO AND SEE IT!