Deliciously glorious

Rating: 9/10 (29 July 2008)

I thought Charlie and the Chocolate factory made a massive improvement since the first one (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.) The film was throughly excellent, with a few twists and turns, just to bring back some more energy to the movie, which is great.
This movie follows, a poor family, named the "Buckets", who haven't had much miracles in their lives (mostly failures), until a chocolate factory across the road, that has been sitting there lonely for years and years, finally opened and the owner of the factory Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp) put five golden tickets in five ordinary Willy Wonka chocolate bars and those five lucky people who finds the five golden tickets in their chocolate bars, get to go on a tour in Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory.
Augustus Gloop (Philip Wiegratz) was the first lucky finder of one of the golden tickets. He is a fat, greedy boy, who does nothing but eat chocolate all day (he even eat a bit of his golden ticket) and is a selfish boy, who never ever shares his chocolate.
Veruca Salt (Julia Winter) was the second lucky finder of one of the golden tickets. She is a selfish, rich, spoilt brat, who always gets want she wants and asks her daddy for some more (even she ordered her daddy to find the golden ticket).
Violet Beauregarde (AnnaSophia Robb) was the third lucky finder of one of the golden tickets. She is mean and selfish and is a tomboy who does nothing but chew bubblegum all day (she is a bubblegum champion who has trophies all over her house) and thinks she is better than everyone else.
Mike Teavee (John Fry) was the fourth lucky finder of one of the golden tickets. He is quite a moody and selfish boy, who does nothing but play on his games console all day (Teavee was a perfect surname for him) and again, has that look thinking he is better than everyone else.
Then finally we come to the star of the movie, Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore), the fifth lucky finder of the last golden ticket (who had two attempts trying to find the ticket, and luckily a miracle happened on the second attempt) and he stands out in the crowd, he is not a mean and selfish boy, he is a kind, generous and loving boy, who cares the world about his family.
I'm a huge fan of the book and read some of it and I think this movie is a wonderful adaption to the book and the movie writer tried extremely hard to make the book and and the movie match together (it would have been a disaster if they skipped a chunk of bits out from the book and created a movie with a very different plot to the book - who wants that?) and I must say you have to be a fan of the book to watch the movie, otherwise you might hate it.
The performances from the delightful cast were none other than a phenomenon, especially by Johnny Depp (Willy Wonka) I mean after, his previous movie, "Pirates Of The Caribbean The Curse Of The Black Pearl", he proved that she can shine and in this movie he delivered more to the audience, so that is excellent. And Freddie Highmore (Charlie Bucket) a young, wonderful actor, who I've seen in "Five Children and It" is an inspiration to young ones, who always wanted to be an actor and that is marvellous, well done Freddie!
The plot was well thought out and thankfully it didn't have too many characters and plots (best stick to no more than 10 characters) otherwise the movie will get confusing and a little boring. And it was followed in Roald Dahl's words (Author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) from beginning to end and it was very solid, which is excellent.
The Chocolate factory looked absolutely spectacular, it's like when you see it, your mouths start watering and you are desperate to eat it. It looked unbelievably creative, it was all followed in the book's words and it is the best thing about this movie.
The songs were another positive point to the movie, they were all complex and delightful to represent each child leaving the factory, because they were naughty (of course not Charlie) and Deep Roy was the perfect choice for the Oompa Loompas and he has a lovely singing voice.
And to bring it to a conclusion, a throughly enjoyable movie, aimed for all ages and well done the cast and crew for working together to create this marvellous movie.
8.75/10