Thursday, August 04, 2005

Movie: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Saw "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" last night and it was excellent <grin>
It's rated PG and is quite suitable for kids (bright colours, simple, vicious humour, bad people suffer/good people triumph etc) but it's very funny for adults too (although maybe not for parents of spoilt kids...) I vaguely remember reading Roald Dahl's books at around junior school age but my impression of the story is really based on the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (which is also a good film). Johnny Depp's portrayal of Willy Wonka is very different from Gene Wilder's, but Depp's portrayal suits the era -- less camp, still weird but even funnier (no way is it based on Michael Jackson!) The Oompa Loompa's were excellent too, by the way ;-)

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