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Rating: 2/10 (1 August 2005)

I can hardly believe how many positive reviews this movie has received. I have not been this disappointed in a movie since the Blair Witch Project fiasco. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was a painful movie to watch. There were people actually asleep in the theater.
Charlie, played by Freddie Highmore was adorable. Depp was funny in an OCD way, but not enough to carry this joke of a reproduction. The songs were terribly lame. They had ONE Oompa Loompa, played by Deep Roy, and he was digitally reproduced a couple hundred times to make the entire population of Oompa Loompa's in the factory. I almost walked out when I saw that. How can you have ONE Oompa Loompa? I know we have come a long way in digital enhancements but this was just sad and cheap. Someone in Loompaland is rolling over in their grave.
If you love the first one like I did, don't bother spending 9 bucks to see this in the theater. In fact, don't bother spending anything on this...rent or buy the original and pretend this never came out.