Worth seeing but a bitter pill for fans of the first one to swallow...

Rating: 6/10 (27 July 2005)

John Depp (Wonka) is the key most important part of this movie...along with the kid who plays Charlie (Freddie Highmore)...
Together they make the movie worth seeing...BUT...if you are a fan of the original.... there is a high chance you will be disappointed in this one to a point....
I think this movie is best seen...without having seen the original....in fact if you can try to put the original out of your mind...and pretend you are seeing this for the first time...it's decent....
It has some pretty funny jokes in it....the Oompa Loompa...songs are more modern..but are very hard to understand at times....
On a scale from one to ten...I give this a 5.5, because it's good at times...and has it's moments....but since I was a fan of the original...it was also at times a bitter pill for me to swallow...