Brilliantly done!

Rating: 10/10 (8 December 2005)

Perhaps it was that I thought Johnny Depp would spoil this thing and thus had low expectations, but this thing was AWESOME!! I love that this movie was not made after "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" but after the original book "The Glass Elevator" and thus does not follow it but is authentic. What a commentary on society! What a thought-provoking piece! What brilliantly concocted cinematography. I loved the Oompa Loompas! I loved the ending. The way this story was told made sense. Depp did a fabulous job in this, as did everyone else. The way it starts--"Charlie Bucket was the luckiest boy in the whole world, he just didn't know it yet"--reminds me of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet which starts with a spoiler. I cannot tell you just how pleased I am!! It's wonderful film for kids, although I think one of its aims is to get those "grown-ups" in the audience to remember and actually feel what it's like to be young.