A Sugar Coated Morality Yarn
Watching Charlie & The Chocolate Factory brings us back to a time when candy means more than anything in the world to a young child. The chocolate factory is like the realisation of all the hopes and dreams a child can ever have.
Naturally, every child in the world can't wait to his hand on one of the only 5 Golden Tickets to visit the chocolate factory. Charlie is the boy who keeps hoping and dreaming no matter what the odds are. But more importantly, only Charlie, through his loving family, realises that the golden ticket, or even all the candies he can find in the factory, are only the means to an end, but never the end.
The liberty that Tim Burton took on the little background story of Willy Wonka worked out quite well. Here, we get to see why Willy Wonka grew up to be that socially inept, eccentric genius chocolatier, a character played to sweet perfection by Johnny Depp.
Memorable characters in a timeless Roald Dahl classic, beautifully designed, great music, just a trivia, the oompa-loompas' songs were voiced by Danny Elfman, the long-ime Burton collaborator who had composed such classics as Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and even the Simpsons' theme.
Not to be missed. 5/10.
Naturally, every child in the world can't wait to his hand on one of the only 5 Golden Tickets to visit the chocolate factory. Charlie is the boy who keeps hoping and dreaming no matter what the odds are. But more importantly, only Charlie, through his loving family, realises that the golden ticket, or even all the candies he can find in the factory, are only the means to an end, but never the end.
The liberty that Tim Burton took on the little background story of Willy Wonka worked out quite well. Here, we get to see why Willy Wonka grew up to be that socially inept, eccentric genius chocolatier, a character played to sweet perfection by Johnny Depp.
Memorable characters in a timeless Roald Dahl classic, beautifully designed, great music, just a trivia, the oompa-loompas' songs were voiced by Danny Elfman, the long-ime Burton collaborator who had composed such classics as Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and even the Simpsons' theme.
Not to be missed. 5/10.
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