An excellent movie definitely worth seeing!

Rating: 10/10 (10 September 2005)

'Charlie and the chocolate factory' is a great movie that is almost completely different from the original 'Willie Wonka and the chocolate factory' movie. It is about a poor boy named Charlie Bucket who finds one of Willie Wonka's five golden tickets and is given the once in a lifetime opportunity to tour the marvelous chocolate factory. Each of the four other children are one by one faced with a terrible fate for being very rotten and not worthy of earning the grand prize set for the child who is the last remaining contender. Now this may sound similar to the previous movie but you will find that the factory is highly different and some of the less interesting ideas have been cut from the new movie. A lot of new features have also been added including the new and improved Oompa Loompa's who just so happen to be excellent singers. This movie is much better as it goes into a great amount of detail about Willie Wonka as a child and also how the factory came to be. The old movie leaves a lot of questions unanswered and many loose ends but this movie finishes nicely by Willie Wonka being reunited with his long lost dad and Charlie and his family actually movie into to the factory where Charlie and Willie become business partners of such. This movie also shows the other four children and their parents leaving the factory in a different state to when they came in. Overall, this movie was excellent and is suitable for all ages. One of the best movies i have ever seen!