Very Poor Remake

Rating: 2/10 (21 July 2005)

I was very disappointed in the movie. Johnny Depp was more like a demented robot than a real character. The children's characters were not complete and poor imitations of their 1971 predecessors'. This is one of the times when less would have been more, even for Tim Burton it was too flamboyant. The oompa-loom-pa had very little character and seemed mean and nasty. The squirrel thing seemed more like a rip off of the ice-age popularity. Thankfully the original film is on DVD as I am sure this will be soon. I did like the Grandpa Joe character. All the characters were played from an evil point of view and where was Slugworth?