What a shame

Rating: 1/10 (22 July 2005)

This movie had excellent cinematography and, despite the weird character of Willy Wonka, great acting. My problem with it was the way in which Roald Dahl's book was altered. Dahl was rolling in his grave when they had Willy Wonka tell Charlie he could not bring his family to the factory. Or the stupid way that he kept flashing back to his dad - and then going to therapy. PLEASE! The worst? The way Charlie's family ends up living in their same old run-down, holy shack in their same old nasty clothes inside the factory. What are we supposed to take away from that? That poor people LIKE living in cold, tiny houses? What a piece of crap. That movie would have been excellent if it had shown Willy as he should have been portrayed - not as some odd looking weirdo. Read the book. You'll be disgusted, too. Oh, and I've had people tell me Dahl wrote the lyrics. Yep, it's the ones from his book. He died in 1990. The movie studio wants people to think he gave his stamp of approval. HA. Never.