What happened?

Rating: 4/10 (15 July 2005)

OK, I love Tim Burton, I love Danny Elfman and I love Johnny Depp, however I did NOT love this movie. I don't know, it seemed so artificial and Hollywood and Willy Wonka was so dismal and odd in a way that I did not care for. I walked out of the movie theater feeling like I had drippy over sweetened goop all over me. YUCK. I think Burton is a little too full of himself these days... I heard Tim say that he did not like the original.. well I don't like his version...thoroughly disappointed.. :-( I guess we all have our own version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory from reading Roald Dahl's classic and mine is totally different than Burton's idea. Man, it's one thing to not like a movie, but to love a director and actor as much as I do these two guys and to walk out feeling the way I did.. what has happened to Hollywood? Where have all the good ideas gone???