NOT for my kids...

Rating: 2/10 (30 August 2006)

Call me a grinch but I found this movie pretty heavy-handed & mean-spirited. I've liked Depp in other things, but his Willy Wonka seems like a called-in performance, on the order of a high-school play where the boys play the girls.
There's a lot of malevolence that seeps through, too, which although pretty common in Tim Burton movies, is really quite pronounced in this one.
The golden-ticket winners are all pretty much set-up as the more reprehensible representatives of a self-involved & greedy society but even so their rather gross methods of dispatch & WW's glee comes off as pretty creepy for family fare. Everything that works in his film is an obvious tribute/homage/borrowing from earlier (& better IMO) films, especially "The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T" & the final scene in "Kid Millions".
It's not that I would worry about the mental health of my kids seeing this, it's that their health is good enough that I know they would find it seriously wanting.