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Well, everyone knows there was an old one, so I guess the best way to review this movie is to compare and contrast.

Wonka: In the old film, Gene Wilder's Wonka was a charming, clever, suave, elegant, and pretty demented candy man....
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Well, everyone knows there was an old one, so I guess the best way to review this movie is to compare and contrast.

Wonka: In the old film, Gene Wilder's Wonka was a charming, clever, suave, elegant, and pretty demented candy man. He acts so clever like he has everything planned out, he is kind, but also strict, and plans to get what he aims for. Johnny Depp's however is a little different, the film seems to center more around him than Charlie, there's more focus on him than Wilder's character. I guess Depp's Wonka is supposed to be a kid trapped in a man's body, he is also a bit more naive and a little funnier. I don't know who to perfer, they are both different and both are great.

Supporting cast: In the old film, the kids were great actors and represented the bratty stereotypes of the 70s. In the new film, they're great too, in fact, they updated.
Agustous: In the old film he was a little more laid back, and you never did see him eat any of the candy he said to have eaten, except for the chocolate river. In the new film, he constantly ate and looked way more excited to see the factory. In short, he was pushed a little more...
Violet: The old one was a gum enthusiast, but when she heard about the golden tickets, she laid off the gum and switched to candy bars, just so she could win. In the new film, it was actually pointed out that she was a winner, and winning everything humanly possible ever, which leads to her demise as a blueberry.
Veruca: This one was more interesting in the old film, because she was louder, and semmed more determined to get what she wanted.
Mike: In the old film he was young and loved TV, and seemed more excited about these things going on in the factory. With the new one, he found many things ridiculous and stupid, and overall, not as likeable as the old one.
Charlie: The new one is just a saint, always doing everything perfect, and to be honest, the acting is pretty bland. The old one was more realistic, since he did some things that weren't perfect; hey, kids are like that.

The Visuals: In both films, the factory was a great contrast to the regular everyday world, being so magical and weird, the new one just looks better because of the special effects, the whole new film is just a little more fun to watch. The old one strays far from the book's details, making it more creative...

You may not like the new one as much as the other one, but it's still an enjoyable piece...

4 1/2 gobstoppers out of 5

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Posted oct 7, 2009 10:57 pm pt

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This movie is very cool and funny it is actually the only Tim Burton movie that I like.Every one in the movie is hilarious.Johnny Depp is perfect as Willy Wonka.He is very funny and has great music.You want to sing with the Umpa Lumpas while you...
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This movie is very cool and funny it is actually the only Tim Burton movie that I like.Every one in the movie is hilarious.Johnny Depp is perfect as Willy Wonka.He is very funny and has great music.You want to sing with the Umpa Lumpas while you watch.It is fun to watch and the special effects are amazing and cool.And it goes along with the book very well.Over all it is a spectacular movie.

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Posted jul 7, 2009 12:44 am pt

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perfect! O liked the original for Gene Wilder, but this film has it all, its dark, its very very funny, and Johnny Depp is outstanding a Willy Wonka. The only thing i have to complain about is the umpalumpas aren't green and orange like in the...
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perfect! O liked the original for Gene Wilder, but this film has it all, its dark, its very very funny, and Johnny Depp is outstanding a Willy Wonka. The only thing i have to complain about is the umpalumpas aren't green and orange like in the original. Watch This Film now!!!!

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Posted aug 23, 2008 10:54 am pt

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is the only Tim Burton film I've seen that I actually liked. Johnny Depp is genius, the effects are cartoonish but cool, and it's got very clever humor. Freddy Highmore doesn't really add much to the movie but...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is the only Tim Burton film I've seen that I actually liked. Johnny Depp is genius, the effects are cartoonish but cool, and it's got very clever humor. Freddy Highmore doesn't really add much to the movie but he's okay. Very well done over all.

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Posted jul 14, 2008 7:12 am pt

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Nice Movie From Tim burton And Nice Acting From Johnny depp...

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Posted jul 14, 2008 3:44 am pt

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Adorei este filme.

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Posted apr 28, 2008 5:52 am pt

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It starts with five Golden Tickets. Find one in a chocolate bar and you will get a tour in Willy Wonks's chocolate factory. Near the end, you will know why dicover why Willy Wonka wanted to open his factory for a tour since people cheated on him...
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It starts with five Golden Tickets. Find one in a chocolate bar and you will get a tour in Willy Wonks's chocolate factory. Near the end, you will know why dicover why Willy Wonka wanted to open his factory for a tour since people cheated on him when he had workers.

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Posted mar 25, 2008 5:41 pm pt

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To me this was not a good as the original but it was good in it's own right. Again Johnny Depp proves he can become pretty much any character.

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Posted feb 9, 2008 12:53 am pt

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I was worried about this till I realized that the man behind so many unusual films was helming this one... what a perfect match.

Ok, the must have in this, a compairison to the first. I think this one just edges out Willy on that...
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I was worried about this till I realized that the man behind so many unusual films was helming this one... what a perfect match.

Ok, the must have in this, a compairison to the first. I think this one just edges out Willy on that anything that they both did realy was done with more pazzas in this remake.

If this much care was allways put into remakes, there'd be less complaining about them (Outside of no one can come up with somthing new.)

I do find it funny that the first one, titled with Willie's name, was more about Charlie and the remake, titled with Charlie's name, was more about Willie. Go fig.

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Posted jan 13, 2008 11:35 am pt

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i like the blueberry part

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• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  100
  Those Oompa-Loompas are the beat, and soul, of Burton's finest movie since "Ed Wood": a madhouse kiddie musical with a sweet-and-sour heart.

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  100
  A peach of a story delightfully imagined by Dahl and lushly realized by Burton. It's full of witty or awesome scenes, flights of fancy and characters either totally, lovably sweet or outrageously, humorously rotten.

  by Michael Wilmington | Read Full Review »
• [+] Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  100
  A mischievously inventive, surreal entertainment, one that celebrates not only Whipple Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight and Nutty Crunch Surprise but Busby Berkeley, Stanley Kubrick, the Beatles, and the outer-space acting choices of one Johnny Depp - not to mention those bushy-tailed rodents in all their bustling splendor.

  by Steven Rea | Read Full Review »
• [+] Christian Science Monitor
  
  100
  On the screen, Burton turns out to BE the ideal filmmaker for this deliciously bizarre yarn. He's given free rein to his fantasies in past movies, but rarely as wittily and consistently as he does here.

  by David Sterritt | Read Full Review »
• [+] Portland Oregonian
  
  91
  It's not orthodox Dahl but it's pure Burton, and, as it's been such a very long time since moviegoers have been afforded that particular treat, it's entirely welcome.

  by Shawn Levy | Read Full Review »
• [+] Slate
  
  90
  This is a dazzling movie, yet some people (not kids, but maybe their parents) will be put off by its Grand Guignol ghoulishness.

  by David Edelstein | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  88
  Depp deserves kudos for fashioning an original and outlandish if occasionally menacing character.

  by Claudia Puig | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Post
  
  88
  Like Roald Dahl's book, Tim Burton's splendidly imaginative and visually stunning - and often very dark and creepy - new version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is squarely aimed more at children than their parents.

  by Lou Lumenick | Read Full Review »
• [+] Charlotte Observer
  
  88
  Bizarrely entertaining and brilliantly designed.

  by Lawrence Toppman | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
  80
  The first half of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a brilliant blend of the best of Burton and Dahl, with some unexpected input from Charles Dickens. In the second half, the contraptions take over, drowning whatever story remains...But it falls frustratingly short of the masterpiece it might have been.

  by Ella Taylor | Read Full Review »
• [+] Dallas Observer
  
  80
  A perfect marriage of author and director.

  by Bill Gallo | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Hollywood Reporter
  
  80
  Here's a film about kids and for kids that has not lost touch with what it is like to actually be a kid.

  by Kirk Honeycutt | Read Full Review »
• [+] Empire
  
  80
  Witty, wonderful and wildly imaginative, Burton's first proper 'family movie' since "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure" delivers a sugar rush that'll last for days.

  by Olly Richards | Read Full Review »
• [+] Salon.com
  
  80
  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is 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. But for better or worse, it's fascinating.

  by Stephanie Zacharek | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  80
  Tim Burton finally fulfills the promise of "Beetlejuice" with this imaginative masterpiece.

  by J.R. Jones | Read Full Review »