Two hours of your life that you may never get back...wait for it on video

Rating: 3/10 (17 July 2005)

My four year old and I anxiously rolled into the theater to view the latest version of the classic, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Tim Burton did not let us down in the vivid imagery department, and Danny Elfman delivers yet another awesome soundtrack. While I can live with Johny Depp's Michael Jackson meets Marilyn Manson adaptation of Willy Wonka, the story seems to drag...a lot. The story is generally what you would expect if you have read the book or seen the Gene Wylder version, but it seems to lag. I don't want to give away anything, but expect some good one-liners and a few decent jokes, but there is plenty of down time between them. Maybe next summer we'll get a prequel, "Wonka Begins".