Great version of story

Rating: 9/10 (15 July 2005)

I liked everything about the movie except that the Oompa Loompa singing was somewhat annoying. It was so high-pitched it was hard to understand the lyrics, although the parts I COULD understand were very clever.
The Depp/Burton version is more reflective of the dark humor characteristic of Dahl's writing.
The references I've seen to Michael Jackson are simply reflections of our time. Willy Wonka was actually the opposite of a pedophile, if you examine him more closely you'll see that he didn't really care too much for children. That's part of the irony of it being a "children's story."