The new version of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, starring Johnny Depp, is already the number one movie in America. But it only comes out in Blighty today.
As well as topping the box office, it’s also the most popular Johnny Depp/Tim Burton movie of all time. And rumour has it that the movie features the results of a special squirrel-training boot camp.
Needless to say, we haven’t seen it yet, but loads of other people have. What did they think? Here’s the hecklerspray Charlie And The Chocolate Factory movie review digest…
We’ll start with our friend, king of the thumb people Roger Ebert.
Now he’s finished being upset that the aliens in War Of The Worlds only
had three legs, he’s found a film he likes. He says the film "swoops
like a roller-coaster. When the five kids and their adult
guardians finally get inside, their first sight is a marvel of
imagination: A sugary landscape of chocolate rivers, gumdrop trees and
(no doubt) rock candy mountains."
Devin Faraci from CHUD
says "For the last few years I’ve been thinking that maybe Burton’s
time had passed, as he kept making movies that just didn’t grab me.
Charlie is his best work in a decade". Better than Planet Of The Apes?
Bloody hell!
Stephanie Zacherek from Salon.com
sums up the film as "absinthe in movie form, a white chocolate space
egg of a picture that has a giddy hallucinatory quality in some places
and an overcalculated glossiness in others". Absinthe in movie form? In
our experience, that means the film begins with a terrifying burning
sensation and ends with a pounding headache and a feeling of intense
self-loathing.
Finally, Jackie K Cooper points out that "The movie is rated PG for mild profanity and some scary scenes of children in peril".
People! Have you seen Charlie And The Chocolate Factory? What did you think of it? Leave your comments below.
[story by Stuart Heritage]
susan says
Best movie I have seen all year. This one is the book with two differences, which I can’t say or it will spoil the movie.
I grew up with the old one, with the Anthony Newley songs and Gene Wilder as Willie. Once you can get past that movie, this one washes you with sights, sounds and effects that are amazing. My first thoujght, for example, was Deep Roy did not look like an Oompa Loompa. I let it go, watched and was over it in a few seconds.
The casting is good-the little boy who p[ays Charlie is inspired – as are all the children. Keep in mind the children have been slightly updated too for the 00’s- as are their parents, but in the end….
I’ve seen this 3x since it opened last week. Marvelous fluffly summer movie.