Not that bad of a movie.actually pretty fun and entertaining

Rating: 7/10 (6 July 2008)

Some things that i liked about this film were the family and Charlie. Charlie is perfectly cast, i also like the grandpa better in this film than the original and the mom is played by Helena Bonham Carter who has also been in Tim Burton's Sweeny Todd and Planet of the Apes. I liked how Wonka is not displayed up-front from the start even though we know its johnny deep and we've seen what he looks like in the trailer, by not showing him right away it helped add some mystery to the character which carried through out till the end of the movie. The special effects were very good everything seemed to belong in this fun world, nothing came across as a 3d computer building or bad use of special effects.In this story they go into Willy Wonka's past too his child hood which really helped me to understand this character something the original really didn't do also they give us a better understanding of how this chocolate factory works, example the oompa loompas have a back-story that perfectly explains why they would want to work in this factory.Some things I didn't like about this movie were unfortunately the oompa lumps they really didn't work or should I say he didn't work for me at all being as its only one actor being duplicated on screen. The actor was good but I felt like I was seeing the same actor duplicated and not individual oompa loompas that looked alike. Also the oompa loompa songs weren't anything to remember they were actually really annoying and slowed the movie down, I was actually hoping to hear Deep sing since Gene Wilder sang in the original but there was no singing from Deep here.If you are a fan of the original Willy Wonk and the Chocolate Factory and Burton and Deep's collaboration's like Ed Wood,Sweeney Todd,and Edward Scissor Hands then you will probably like this movie as well.