Another Burton & Depp Film!

Rating: 7/10 (11 February 2008)

Tim Burton and Johnny Depp have worked together before in other films like Ed Wood and Edward Scissorhands. In this film, Depp plays the strange Willy Wonka who has perfect teeth and a strange personality. We learn in this film about his dentist father played by Christopher Lee CBE (he should be Sir Christoper Lee) but that's another story. Poor Willy Wonka who wear a head brace to make his teeth perfect. He puts five chocolate bars with gold certificates. The lucky winners include the obese and slob, German Augustus, the spoiled rotten Veruca and her father played by James Fox, another great British actor, the blue girl from Georgia who is a champion like her mother, the troubled boy, and Charlie Bucket and his grandpa Jones. Charlie is poor and it is obvious that his family is struggling. Helen Bonham Carter's teeth are as poor as Willy's is white and perfect. The Buckets live in a shack with other notable British actors and actresses like the great Liz Smith who is not a gossip columnist in New York City but one of Britain's most under-rated and gifted comedic actresses in her eighties and going strong. She should also be on the honors list.