Just say "no" to charlie

Rating: 3/10 (16 July 2005)

This movie has good special effects and that is the only thing that it has on the original (technology) The oompa loompas are creepy and look like tiny mean little terrorists The songs are TERRIBLE and unmemorable , unlike the original that has a song called "Pure Imagination" which is so hauntingly beautiful that it brings tears to my eyes and also I really missed the Oompas singing that incredibly catchy little ditty " oompa loompa do-biddy do I have another riddle for you..." Johnnie Depp ( although I love him ) seems too young to be Willy and doesn't show enough heart the way Gene Wilder did. Gene Wilders Willy Wonka was strange but lovable , Johnnie is just strange. The sub plot of the children being tempted with stealing the everlasting gob-stopper , by wormsworth (remember that?) as a test that was set up by Willy Wonka to see whom he could trust in the end, is removed and replaced with some Psycho-analytical ending about Willy's relationship with his father ( I don't know if that's how the book originally read but I really wasn't thrilled with it) I say miss the new version and rent the old one. The new version only made me pine for the original.