Charlie and the Chocolate Factory barely reaches average.

Rating: 5/10 (6 September 2005)

Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, and David Kelly star in Tim Burton's remake of the classic book by Roald Dahl. Seven lucky children and one guardian are allowed into Willy Wonka's candy factory where all his great chocolate creations are made. Blah, blah, blah as if we haven't heard it before. Might I say that for a movie to attempt to reach the level of success the first movie made is alone, insane. Then to fail to do such adds a certain level of disappointment. But for this all to come from the brilliant director Tim Brton who brought us the classic, A Nightmare Before Christmas, is really a sad sight. But aside from the negatives of this over-all let-down, any movie that stars Johnny Depp as the lead and dresses him up and makes him talk funny is going to be at least an average movie. And Burton's twist on Dahl's ending is pretty good.