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But how could they remake an all time classic in the shape of Charlie!
Thankfully the plot of the remake very much mirrors the original. The makers behind this film would, I'm sure, prefer to call it another adaptation of the classic children's book, but that's a hard sell. Everybody ... Read review
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Depp was fully aware of the expectations that came with his role and Tim Burton's remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Critics and movie goers alike received the film well and the Johnny Depp earned praise for his interpretation of Willy Wonka.
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Advantages: Visually impressive, great child actors, oompa loompa scenes, funny Disadvantages: Liked the original Salts better
...films is basically the same. Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore) is an impoverished Little Lord Fauntleroy. He's what Oliver Twist would be if, instead of being an orphan, he came from a family so busted and broke.
His father (Noah Taylor) is a factory worker who has just been sacked. His mother (Helena Bonham Carter) is the maternal optimist who dutifully cooks and cleans - while trying to protect Charlie from an awfully cold world. ... ...know that!
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory opens with an eye-catching demonstration of the process by which Wonka bars are made and delivered to stores around the world. It's a preview of the brilliant land we will enter once Willy opens his factory to five lucky ticket holders. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Our first glimpse of the protagonist is in considerably more drab surroundings: a precariously leaning shack in the middle ... more
Well the summer is upon us so that can mean only one thing - yes you've guessed it more remakes at the Box Office.
How many must we suffer through? The Dukes of Hazzard, Bewitched… luckily, there is at least one rehashing that is worth the audience's time and attention.
But how could they remake an all time classic in the shape of Charlie!
Thankfully the plot of the remake very much mirrors the original. The makers behind this film would, I'm sure, prefer to call it another adaptation of the classic children's book, but that's a hard sell. Everybody has heard of the film that was helmed by Gene Wilder - the one that made him the iconic Willy Wonka. It's unlikely this film will bury that one, but it does somethings better: It tells the story, so differently, the second helping feels fresh.
The story in both films is basically the same. Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore) is an impoverished Little Lord Fauntleroy. He's what Oliver Twist would be if, instead of being an orphan, he came from a family so busted and broke.
His father (Noah Taylor) is a factory worker who has just been sacked. His mother (Helena Bonham Carter) is the maternal optimist who dutifully cooks and cleans - while trying to protect Charlie from an awfully cold world. Their one-room dive also houses Charlie's grandparents - all four of them - who never get out of bed. That includes Grandpa Joe (David Kelly), the eternal optimist - as well as Grandpa George (David Morris) - his pessimistic counterpart.
But then you all know that!
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory opens with an eye-catching demonstration of the process by which Wonka bars are made and delivered to stores around the world. It's a preview of the brilliant land we will enter once Willy opens his factory to five lucky ticket holders. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Our first glimpse of the protagonist is in considerably more drab surroundings: a precariously leaning shack in the middle of town, where seven family members huddle over bowls of cabbage soup. I confess here that while I have seen the previous film many times, one of them this year, I have read the book only once, many years ago. So I remember the film much more clearly and found myself making comparisons to that instead of the book, to which this movie sticks more closely
In both films, the story gets moving when the mysterious Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp) announces a big contest. Five golden tickets have been packaged in Wonka Bars. The five holders of those tickets will be invited to tour the mysterious Wonka factory - and one of them will get a little something extra.
This film takes us along the same tours, the same boat rides, up-down-and-across the same glass elevator - but goes out of its way to deliver as different an experience as possible. It succeeds for two reasons: First, Tim Burton has a vision that is so definitive as to take material from the first film and cast it into an altogether light. Second, the script by John August (Go, Big Fish) looks for ways to give Tim Burton something fresh to say - and simply an opportunity to reshoot the same story with new toys.
This version is at a tremendous disadvantage. The '71 film has already imprinted an iconic vision of the book by Roald Dahl. This version has to doubly creative if it wants to distinguish itself from the old '71. It has to find a yin to its yang and zig where it zags. For the most part, it does just that.
I don't want to spoil anything - and I won't. In addition to giving us a rich, saturated, ultra-modern reshoot of the Wonka factory - this film uses the power of creepy to, in some ways, beat the '71 film at its own game. Gene Wilder's Wonka was totally bipolar - a loud, moody showman who was a little scary because he could get caught up in the drama of his own imagination. He was a prima donna off his meds.
Depp's Wonka is much more private. Some have compared him to Michael Jackson - because of the hair and dress - but that's a superficial comparison. If anything, Michael Jackson's Achilles heel is his "love" for children. In Depp's world, Wonka is almost frightened of them. Behind his smiles and giggles, this Wonka isn't just dangerously offbeat; he's misanthropic. He's more like W.C. Fields. His version of the Wonka factory more like the gingerbread house in Hanzel and Gretal. It's a venus flytrap for bad kids, making him a cross between Santa and the Bogeyman.
Maybe that's why Danny Elfman scored this film with a reworking of the theme from Red Dragon. This Willy Wonka is no Dr. Frahn-ken-steen. He's a cross between Barney and Hannibal Lecter, between Mr. Rogers and the Gary Oldman character from The Fifth Element.
The least creative part of this film is the quartet of updated brats who contrast with Charlie's lovable qualities: Violet Beauregarde (Annasophia Robb), Veruca Salt (Julia Winter), Augustus Gloop (Philip Wiegratz), and Mike Teavee (Jordan Fry). Each kid represents something gone sour in childhood: Violet is too competitive. Veruca gets whatever she wants. Augustus is a glutton. Mike Teavee spends too much time in front of the tube.
Their performances meet the mark. It's just that their roles are essentially the same. In my opinion, the film's greatest weakness is the familiar territory it trods as its grinds out plotlines we remember for the old '71. Their parents, particularly Mrs. Beauregard (the hilariously zombie-eyed Missi Pyle) are much more interesting.
But don't we all love seeing that girl explode ha!
Another interesting plot twist is the remaking of the Oompa Loompas. They looked like mini Ronald McDonald's in the '71 classic. Here, they look more like hobbit-sized characters from Dr. Seuss. In that respect, they're more faithful to the book - whose vision couldn't be contained within the state of the art, as it existed in '71. Here, the Oompa Loompas are all one guy - Deep Roy (Big Fish, The Haunted Mansion). Reflecting the mood of our time, the Oompa Loompas are like undocumented stockers at Walmart - low-cost replacements for local workers who give outsourcing a whole new meaning.
I'm not going to get into plot spoilers - which is why I've tried to convey the spirit of the film (which is wickedly satirical) without giving away the store. To do that, I want to say something about the film's ending - or at least its third act - without telling you anything specific.
Here's what I want to say: If you remember how the first film ended, and are expecting more of the same, you'll be surprised. That's because this film is willing to take the story into a slightly different direction. You may feel, as I did, that the first ending was the better choice - but this one has the benefit of being fresh.
This is a film that stands well next to the '71 classic, because it's so different. Every chance it gets, it flips elements or strikes out into a new direction - enough to give it the feel of a totally different movie. The two films are more like brothers - with so much in common, but so different in so many deliciously entertaining ways.
I thought the trailers for this movie made it look kind of silly, especially Willy Wonka's Dumb & Dumber hairdo, and I didn't really want to see this it. Don't let the ads fool you, though. This turned out to be a great movie with a wonderful story and not a slow moment despite running nearly two hours. It has the right balance of light and dark humor to keep both kids and adults entertained. In short, I loved it.
In fact, unlike most remakes, this is one where you could see either film first, then see the other film, and continue back and forth - without losing anything - because each version makes the other feel fresh and different. It's what deja vu was intended to convey - not a repeat of the past but a totally different plane of existence. Neither is better. They're just different. And that, in itself, is indisputably better
Advantages: Imaginative, funny, great acting, great cinematography, great fun Disadvantages: I wish I could think of something.....
...or the 2005 version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I hope you hang your head in shame as you walk down the streets! There is no excuse for this negligent behaviour!
Charlie Bucket (Freddy Highmore) lives in a small house – more of a shed really, with his mum, dad and four grandparents and lives on a diet of crumbs and cabbage however, his family has something on other families; love and loyalty.
Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp) is the mysterious ... ...What is noteworthy is that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory marks the fifth film Burton and Depp have made together since Edward Scissorhands. As Burton’s partner of several years, Helen Bonham Carter has also gone on to participate in several of his films including Planet of the Apes and the animated film, The Corpse’s Bride alongside Johnny Depp.
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Johnny Depp, Christopher Lee, Helena Bonham Carter, Noah Taylor and the fantastic new shining ...
ally2kc 27.04.2007
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Advantages: Great fantasy story. A land where imagination and candy abounds! Disadvantages: Could be scary to young children. Looks a little dated.
This is a children’s film, yet whenever it’s on I always try to watch it. Why, you may ask considering I am a 20-year-old female. Surely I have better things to do with my time? Well I have thought about this and I think it is partly from watching this as a child so it brings back good memories. However watching this film is far more than a trip down memory lane for me. Watched as an adult you can read far more into it and it is actually ... ...the only one who feels this way as Marilyn Manson actually uses a rhyme from the film as an intro to one of his songs.
The basic story
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An eccentric chocolate-making millionaire, Willy Wonka, decides to let people into his factory for the first time. These lucky people will all be people with one friend, who have found a golden ticket inside a Wonka chocolate bar. Great marketing strategy eh! Once inside this factory the children with ...
student9824 26.03.2001
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...Roald Dahl (both the book, Charlie and the chocolate factory, and the screenplay), it introduced us to Peter Ostrum as Charlie Bucket and starred Gene Wilder (one of my heros of comedy) as Willy Wonka and Jack Albertson as Grandpa Joe.
Charlie lives with his mother and grandparents in a hovel, money is not so much tight as non existent, both sets of grandparents are confined to a huge bed in the middle of the room and his father is long dead.
This ... ...a lifetime’s supply of chocolate.
Charlie dreams of finding a ticket but being so poor he doesn’t hold out much hope of being one of the lucky ones. Grandpa Joe upsets Charlie’s mum by insisting that he has as much chance as anyone and if that he deserves to find a ticket because he wants one more than anyone else in the world.
The film is essentially filmed in two distinct parts.
The first part of the film is really funny, sad, and full of hope. ...
jimblob 23.06.2003
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Advantages: Depp and Chocolate....Perfect chick flick? Disadvantages: Why change the storyline?
...the story of how little Charlie Bucket finds a golden ticket and along with four other children, all apart from the bizarrely plumb-voiced C.B, spoilt brats, who all get their just 'dessert' (sorry!)
Each comes to a different sticky end. Veruca Salt being dragged into a refuse shaft by squirrels and Augustus Gloop, portrayed as a fat German boy, almost drowning in chocolate were my favourite - Although I couldn't see the morality of someone who ... ...bit in the original where Charlie and Grandpa Joe got sucked up into a giant fan and had to burp to get down.
Instead we got non-Dahl extra bits which weren't altogether necessary. A sub plot, which follows Wonka's relationship with his dentist father, played by veteran Christopher Lee seemed a tad forced.
The original tale was fantastic. If it wasn't broken, why mend it?
We also get the repeated syrupy Americana message that families are the ...
mark_allen71 06.08.2005
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Advantages: Johnny Depp teamed up with Tim Burton again Disadvantages: Comparisons are going to naturally be with the 1970s film instead of the book
...doing his own interpretation of Charlie and Chocolate Factory, and Johnny Depp was playing Willy Wonka, it was like receiving a golden ticket of my own. Tim Burton is without a doubt my favourite director, and when he works with Depp the results are always pure magic.
It's well known that Roald Dahl hated the 1971 version of his book, so much so that he wouldn't allow them to make a sequel. He hated the schmaltzy singing, and didn't really like ... ...example, the 1971 film has Charlie drinking the fizzy lifting drink, when surely the whole point of Charlie is that he's good through and through, and so he wins.
I'm happy to report that the Charlie in the new version of the film is whiter than white, in both complexion and morals. Burton has stuck to the story in the book for the most part, adding only a bit of back story to help explain Wonka's character, and a slightly different ending to further ...
pesky33 04.08.2005 (02.01.2006)
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Advantages: Good film, good acting, interesting adaptation Disadvantages: Quite different to the original and very over the top
Written by one of the world's most famous writers of children's stories, Roald Dahl most people will be familiar with the story of a young lad called Charlie Bucket and his adventures at Willy Wonka's chocolatefactory. As a child this book, written in 1964 was always a favourite of mine and like most good books it was soon turned into a film, Willy Wonka & the ChocolateFactory, which first hit our screens in 1971.
I loved the film almost as much as I loved the book and despite its age it is still something that I could watch today and enjoy. I was therefore somewhat sceptical when I learned that this story was to be told again in 2005. I was even more sceptical when I discovered that this new film version would now feature some of Hollywood's biggest names, including Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka himself.
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Advantages: Looks completely real and looks like you want to eat the set. Disadvantages: None
Doesn't the film just make you want to jump into the set and just eat every last peice of food in the Factory? Wouln't you like to own that chocolatefactory? I would. Im called Charlie. Let me own it. :( Darn! It's only a fantasy. Owell. I can dream cant i?
Director: Tim Burton
Cast:
Willy Wonka - Johnny Depp
I no i only have him at the moment. I'll get the others in a few days. :P
What the Films about: 5 Children find 5 Golden tickets in ordinary Wonka bar's. Their names are:
Augustus Gloop (Eater)
Violet Balregard (Chewer)
Veruca Salt (Wanter)
Mike Teevee (Watches) Get it? Teevee? TV? :l
Charlie Bucket (Healthy and Pleasent boy, Poor)
They all are introduced with 1 parent to Willy Wonka and he take's them on a tour of the factory. 1 by one the kids do stupidly things. At the end of the tour, there is a special ...
Advantages: A great family film for all ages to watch and enjoy! Disadvantages: Does not contain all the scenes from the origional.
Charlie and the chololate factory, a great modern new film.
Actors
Willy Wonker : Jonny Depp
Freddie Highmore ,
Helena Bonham-Carter ,
David Kelly ,
Noah Taylor
Running time : 1:46 - 1 hour 46 minutes.
Directed by : Tim burton.
Writen by Jonny August.
The film is about willy wonka and his chocolatefactory sending out 5 chocolate bars which have a golden ticket hidden inside them.
Charlie is a boy who lives in a poor family with his mum and grandparents. He longs to have a golden ticket and so he gets a very small chance to get one.
Other children start to get the golden tickets (varuka salt, tv mike, Augustus gloop,Violet )
All these kids are either selfish, rude, loud or obsessed.
There is only one ticket left and charlie has not got a golden ticket.
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