It worked, sort of.

Rating: 9/10 (27 July 2005)

Lately, with Burton's "Big Fish" and now "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", it's become obvious that he thinks he can handle emotions well enough to make powerful films... he cant. He's a good director, he manages to keep his audiences entertained despite the fact that countless critics continue to bash him to death, but he's trying to add dimensions to his movies that he hasn't and probably never will master. He's a brilliant artist, he has a skill for making his movies visually and auditorily stunning... but near the end of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" Burton tried a little hard to pull a "time to cry" ending like we saw Spielberg do with E.T.
Problem was, Burton couldn't do it so no one cried good thing was, it wasn't necessary for people to cry bad thing was, it came off as a little obvious
Maybe I'm being too critical, the movie was good... the cinematography was wicked good. The oompa loompas were very entertaining. The plot worked for the most part. And the acting really caught a lot of people off guard, which was good, I think.
I've never liked Depp, he doesn't know how to be subtle enough to act and he always seems overly phony and exaggerative, however as Willy, it worked.