Not Really For Children, Is It?

Rating: 5/10 (13 August 2013)

I was watching it with a girlfriend of mine when she suddenly got sick and had to go to the hospital. (Yes, she recovered and is fine.) So we only saw maybe the first half, but neither of us had a desire to see it any further anyway.
Not having read the Roald Dahl book, I cannot make the comparison to that. But we get, at the beginning, a long exposition of Willy Wonka's background, which I don't know if it was in the book. (I thought he was supposed to be a man of mystery?) And he has a creepy air about him-would anyone want to send a child unaccompanied into a locked factory with him?
Except for Charlie of the title, a good child living in poverty, the kids are not nice in one way or the other-greedy, bullying, etc., and bad things happen to them. Is this movie supposed to be a morality play? It seems a rather strange one.