Advantages: Family entertainment, fun, easy-going, available on DVD! Disadvantages: Doesn't stick to the original story. May lead to eating large amounts of chocolate.
Opening with a bowl of melting chocolate is most definitely the way to get people (or chocoholics, at least) hooked onto a film.
Charlie, a little boy from a poor family, finds a Golden Ticket in his chocolate bar, which means he and an accompanying adult can go on a tour of WillyWonka's chocolate factory along with other winners.
The factory employs all-singing and all-dancing Oompa-Loompas, who sing about each of the children and their faults.
The story shows us a little bit about each winner, but focuses mainly on flashbacks had by WillyWonka (owner of the factory and candy-maker extraordinaire) about his lonely childhood and his dentist father.
I saw the original film once when I was small, and my opinion of this one is very much influeced by having seen both films.
As a children's movie, it is quite good, though the other film ...
Advantages: Visually impressive, great child actors, oompa loompa scenes, funny Disadvantages: Liked the original Salts better
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 WillyWonka 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 ...
Advantages: Visually Impresses, Very Dahl-esque Disadvantages: Comparisons with the novel and 1971 movie
Roald Dahl originally wrote ?Charlie And The Chocolate Factory? in 1964. It tells the tale of a young, impoverished boy named Charlie Bucket who lives with his mother and father, as well as his four bed-ridden grandparents. Every day on his way to school, Charlie passes the chocolate factory, which is owned by WillyWonka and has been closed to the public for years. When Charlie discovers that WillyWonka is running a competition to allow five children the opportunity to visit his factory by placing five ?Golden Tickets? is his Wonka Bars, Charlie wishes he could win one of those tickets and see the Chocolate Factory for himself.
After some initial set-backs, such as not finding a ticket in his birthday chocolate bar, (the only bar his family can afford to buy him a year, which they also bought early), as well as someone claiming to ...
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Audio CD
Title
The Adventures of Charlie and Mr Willy Wonka
Author
Sophie Dahl
Genre
Children
Subgenre
Toys & Games
Number of Pages
3
Publisher
Puffin Books
ISBN
0141805617
EAN
9780141805610
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