Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Widescreen Edition)
by Tim Burton
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Actor: David Kelly, Freddie Highmore, Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp, Noah TaylorDirector: Tim Burton
Brand: DEPP,JOHNNY
Producer: Brad Grey
Producer: Bruce Berman
Producer: Derek Frey
Producer: Graham Burke
Producer: Katterli Frauenfelder
Writer: John August
Writer: Roald Dahl
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1 EX; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1 EX; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1 EX
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 115 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-11-08
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
DVD Reviews of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Widescreen Edition)
DVD Review: Way better than the Gene Wilder version
Summary: 4 Stars
Okay, let me get this straight. Here are pros and cons of the film:
Pro:
-It's more like the book than the 1971 version (for example, the scene where Veruca goes down the garbage chute, in the book there are squirrals, not geese that lay golden eggs! How stupid can one be?!)
-It actually shown where the Oompaa Loompas lived at
-It shows the toothpaste factory where Charlie's dad worked at.
-Two words: Tim Burton.
-It showed what Willy Wonka's childhood was like (I would hate having those braces and a psychopathic dentist for a father)
-It's actually called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, not Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (it makes it sound like Willy found a golden ticket)
-The visuals were amazing.
-The songs were right.
Cons:
-Veruca wasn't bratty enough (to tell you truth, I prefer the 1971 version of Veruca)
-Mike Teavee didn't play video games (I guess they wanted to make it more modern)
-Stupid people think that Willy Wonka is based off of Michael Jackson. It is not, you brainless people!
Other then that, I'm fine with this movie. I saw this twice when it came out in theaters. I can't wait what he does to Alice in Wonderland (which is btw, my favorite book).
DVD Review: Reminds you why Tim Burton movies used to be events
Summary: 4 Stars
After Mars Attacks, which I saw but didn't like, Sleepy Hollow, which I caught on video and didn't like, and Planet of the Apes, which I saw in the theater and wanted to like but in the end couldn't, I had kind of forgotten how great a director Tim Burton could be. Ed Wood was a great movie, but where was Burton the entrancing visual stylist? The Burton of Beetlejuice, and especially the first Batman film, which totally captured my imagination (and I believe still looks better than the Nolan remakes)? The idiot-savant (have you heard him try to string a sentence together?) whose movies promised - and more importantly delivered - visual experiences unlike any other in cinema?
Well, wherever that man went, he is back with a vengance in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, a film so effortlessly charmed and weirdly/grandly magical in the Burton-esque way we all love, that it can comfortably take a position at the pinnacle of his catalogue along-side Batman and Sweeney Todd. It is leagues better than the 70's Willy Wonka film, and features another remarkable performance from Depp that is fey, keeling, and pretty cool - very offbeat, yet somehow true to the darker elements of the character's essence.
DVD Review: If its a remake its usually second rate.
Summary: 1 Stars
The original rendition of "Willy Wonka..." was a successful movie therefore it should not have been even considered for a remake in the first place. The remake tries to use Johnny Depp to fill the shoes left behind by Gene Wilder (and he fails to do this - in fact he looks as if he is going trick or treating rather than opening up a candy factory for some children). The supporting cast is just as weak. While they too, for the most part, pretty much much follow along the psychical aspects of the original ticket-winners, the escorts differ somewhat (The updated Grandpa Joe character is hard to swallow as well when I recall the original played by Jack Albertson). It seems as if acting and characterization were set far astray when putting this movie. Instead, they seem to rely on computerized backgrounds to create an atmosphere that is more realistic than it could be in the first release. Hence, the the backgrounds created a backdrop but couldn't provide any help with the sloppy acting.DVD Review: Great Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Love the Depp version so much that after watching it, I threw away our copy of the version with Gene Whatshisname. Delightful and fun. DVD Review: classic movie to the greatest director of hollywood
Summary: 5 Stars
this movie is awesome a true classic the best of the best its great great buy it you wont be sorry
Description of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Widescreen Edition)
Fantasy Adventure. Acclaimed director Tim Burton brings his vividly imaginative style to the beloved Roald Dahl classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, about eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka (Depp) and Charlie, a good-hearted boy from a poor family who lives in the shadow of Wonka's extraordinary factory. Long isolated from his own family, Wonka launches a worldwide contest to select an heir to his candy empire. Five lucky children, including Charlie, draw golden tickets from Wonka chocolate bars and win a guided tour of the legendary candy-making facility that no outsider has seen in 15 years. Dazzled by one amazing sight after another, Charlie is drawn into Wonka's fantastic world in this astonishing andenduring story.Mixed reviews and creepy comparisons to Michael Jackson notwithstanding, Tim Burton's splendidly imaginative adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory would almost surely meet with Roald Dahl's approval. The celebrated author of darkly offbeat children's books vehemently disapproved of 1971's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (hence the change in title), so it's only fitting that Burton and his frequent star/collaborator, Johnny Depp, should have another go, infusing the enigmatic candyman's tale with their own unique brand of imaginative oddity. Depp's pale, androgynous Wonka led some to suspect a partial riff on that most controversial of eternal children, Michael Jackson, but Burton's film is too expansively magnificent to be so narrowly defined. While preserving Dahl's morality tale on the hazards of indulgent excess, Burton's riotous explosion of color provides a wondrous setting for the lessons learned by Charlie Bucket (played by Freddie Highmore, Depp's delightful costar in Finding Neverland), as he and other, less admirable children enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime tour of Wonka's confectionary wonderland. Elaborate visual effects make this an eye-candy overdose (including digitally multiplied Oompa-Loompas, all played by diminutive actor Deep Roy), and the film's underlying weirdness is exaggerated by Depp's admirably risky but ultimately off-putting performance. Of course, none of this stops Burton's Charlie from being the must-own family DVD of 2005's holiday season, perhaps even for those who staunchly defend Gene Wilder's portrayal of Wonka from 34 years earlier. --Jeff Shannon
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