An excellent film

Rating: 10/10 (22 August 2005)

This is one of the few films I have recently seen, that I have genuinely enjoyed all the way through. It clearly has Tim Burtons mark on it, but is a slight improvement on the slighty disappointing (but still very good) Big Fish. I have always admired Tim Burtons work and particularly enjoyed this film. Johnny Depp played a very charismatic Willy Wonka, and bought out a whole new side to his character. Despite being a PG this film has rather dark undertones, but a lot of humour. I felt that Charlie Bucket was slightly disappointing - a bit pious possibly - but this did not ruin the wonderfulness of the film. I felt its ending slightly let it down, but I was particularly pleased with how closely it followed the book for most of it.
A brilliant film I would love to go see again!