A horrific waste of time; extremely poorly executed...

Rating: 1/10 (11 December 2018)

My seven-year-old daughter and I watched this movie today and she was very disappointed. The music was extremely forgettable and it was downright creepy and inappropriate in many scenes. For example, the little girl that swelled into a huge, grape.... Willy Wonka suggested popping her like a, "small pimple?" Really, an appropriate term in a candy factory? Further, Johnny Depp's portrayal of Wonka suggested a real-life, demented, perverted, abused childhood, etc. Not what I was expecting in a remake of the 1971 Gene Wilder film. Lastly, and importantly to me, my daughter and I found the remake to be absolutely lacking in the "magic" that made the original such a classic. After watching the movie I convinced my daughter to watch the original the next day. Her comment? She thought the remake awful while the original was, "really fun." Johnny Depp: you owe me and my daughter a couple wasted hours of our life. You could cut our grass, clean up the dog mess in the backyard, etc., to make up for it if you'd like......