A wonderful adventure

Rating: 7/10 (16 July 2005)

Anytime Tim Burton and Johnny Depp get together, wonderful things happen and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is not an exception.
From the beginning of the movie, you are pulled into this magnificent world that the sets and music create. There are so many colors and the visual grandeur is amazing. It all continues to develop throughout the film, too. The whole film offers such a treat to the eyes.
The storyline is very good, too, and does a great job of developing all the main characters. It really explains Wonka well, showing the background of what made him what he is. It also shows a lot of Charlie and why he is the way he is.
The acting is the highlight for me, however. Johnny Depp shows his creative genius again with Wonka. He makes a character that is mean, eccentric, loving, arrogant, and insecure at the same time. He is a mystery in a sense, but again another completely original Depp character. Freddie Highmore is wonderful yet again, and every other actor does their character superbly.
The best part of this movie? The fact that it is for all ages. I am an eighteen year old and loved it, there were a bunch of young children in the theater with me who loved it, and all of the parents and grandparents in there loved it. The whole theater erupted into laughs at all the right times, and you heard "aw"s at all the right times.
Another Tim Burton Johnny Depp classic!