I was smiling all the way through it

Rating: 9/10 (24 August 2005)

It's just what you'd expect from Tim Burton and Roald Dahl. The combination of director and author is perfect - and so is the film. It's not Tim Burton's best but it's absolutely worth the way to the movie theatre. If you like Big Fish or Nightmare Before Christmas, you'll love this one. It's colourful, weird enough to love it, and at the same time very carefully composed. The sweetness of the chocolate seems to "infect" the whole movie. All gestures and words seem to be carefully chosen without trying to make it annoyingly perfect. All the ideas, the author's as well as the director's, make you smile and wonder how someone can actually create such a wonderful yet strange atmosphere. Despite all the sweetness, there is some bitterness and some melancholy in this picture which is marvelously acted out by Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka. Charlie is that perfect kid without being in whatsoever way annoying. It's a lovely film and it would be a ten if it wasn't for Sleepy Hollow or Edward.