WOW! This movie is a real treat to one's eyes and it has the books dark spirit in it.

Rating: 8/10 (16 August 2005)

Well, all I can say bravo Burton. You have pulled of one spectacular movie. This movie has a rich, deep story and it doesn't leave with a hollow feeling like "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" did. Well this movie pleased me so much because of its Characters, Music, Environment and for the dark feeling you get from it. -CHARACTERS- Augustus Gloop: Perfect acting. Greedy, messy and a little rude. Wonderful, identical to the book (If you notice in the first movie Augustus is merely chubby, while here he fat, obese just like in the book) Veruca Salt: Although Julia Winter didn't scream as much as Julie Dawn Cole, she was a hypocrite (when she gets her ticket she smiles for like 3 seconds and then she asks her daddy for another pony) and her "friendship" with Violet=amusing, though it was short and useless it was funny. Violet Beauregarde: Just perfect, simply wonderful. Self centered, rude and stuck up, these are the ingredients used to make a perfect Violet. (and she got huge, and her face got fat when she turned into a blueberry, while in the first one she just got fat and blue and grew 3 centimeters) Mike Teavee: What can I say, he wasn't exactly like in the book, but hey they had to make him different because nobody carries around 18 guns, but people do spend lots of time in front of a TV or a Gaming System and they know a lot about hacking or computers. So Mike Teavee=average boy who is a little extra obsessed with TVs, Games and computers. Besides he even had a key ingredient, which was in the book, and this ingredient is the fact that he was trying to show how intelligent he was and he was a little more because he thought Wonka was an idiot and that everything in the factory was pointless and stupid. Charlie Bucket: Freddie Highmore did a spectacular job because he gave Charlie that sense of innocence and sweetness. He acted as if he really almost never ate chocolate (he took small bites of everything so he could enjoy it more) and he was always polite and he proved that a bond with your family is unbreakable. He was always trying to help and was always willing to share and give up something for others. Charlie also showed how much he loved Wonka's candy with the wrappers hanging in his room and with the toothpaste chocolate factory. Willy Wonka: Johnny Depp has done it again he has portrayed a perfect character, Johnny Depp is Willy Wonka. He showed Wonka as a lonely, sad, eccentric, freaky man, and yet he still proves Wonka is a genius. He really shows Wonka has some problems and once he solves them you feel like you have learned more of Wonka and that gap you had before is filled, even if that little subplot wasn't in the book it made a nice addition. The Grandparents were wonderful and so were the children's parents. The Oompa Loompas: Good job Deep Roy, he played all the Oompa Loompas (of course he was multiplied) and he did a great job. The dances in the songs were great and, well Deep Roy is just such a good actor that he is the living image of what the Oompa Loompas were suppose to be from the beginning. Also there is the fact that they look so human that they really fit in the jungle as the were. -MUSIC- Danny Elfman you are the KING! He has done such a good job creating this eerie music for every environment and for every scene. I loved the whole "every child has a different type of music for their respective song" idea because it was just great. You never knew what would come next. The different voice tones as they changed randomly made a perfect addition to the songs. -ENVIRONMENT AND FEELINGS- Well the environment was clearly dark and twisted. The chocolate was always dark and the giant candy cane was twisted and the boat ride was because the music and the light effects. Now as for the feelings I got a sense of cruelty from the Oompa Loompas because they sang nasty songs about nasty, naughty children in front of their parents(a wee bit cruel!) and the candy garden it was a little cruel of Burton and Elfman to switch the music to evil every time Augustus appeared, and they did that in quite a few other scenes with the other children. I was a little shocked at how loud the music was and how crude it was, but that's what made it cool (after every song the parent of the child who the song was about always looked at Wonka with hatred in their face. -OVERALL- A superb movie worth every penny and second, worth seeing more than once and definitely buying the DVD.