Awful. Awful. Awful.

Rating: 3/10 (13 September 2012)

I can't believe this movie got almost 8 stars. What did I miss? It's lame, slow, boring, tedious, drenched in clichés and full of utterly bad jokes.
There's absolutely nothing that made me interested in seeing what'd happen. The characters are empty and don't appeal, the dialogs are stale and old fashioned. Wes Anderson raped Roald Dahl's beautiful story.
I mean, really .. what did I just watch? The brilliant Roald Dahl mangled by the American movie machine. It's a crying shame.
I see the movie costed about 40 million (!) to make. Sure, to pay Clooney and Streep (oh my, without them, this movie'd be impossible to rate). Bad, bad, bad.
How, Wes Anderson, how did you manage to almost literally drain this wonderful story of each and every emotion? Of all wit? Of each joke? I guess that's an achievement. How difficult can it be, with this cast, with such a story, to make it into such garbage?
Yuck!