| After seeing the trailer for this, I was horrified at how lame this picture appeared, particularly making Johnny Depp look like a freak. So we didn't bother to see it in the theater and waited for pay-per-view. It turns out to be a mildly amusing movie. Thankfully not as sing-songingly sucrose as the original. Actually, it's a little darker, with Christopher Lee playing the evil dentist father of Wonka. The special effects were, of course, better, but Depp's performance was very flat, and they even faded color on him, to make everything else seem more vibrant I guess, but it just looked creepy. So it didn't really improve on the original any, aside from not having all the stupid singing. |