The Willy Wonka Formula
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Casting, New Releases, Family Films
Filmbrain does the pictorial math on the new Willy Wonka. His general verdict is that Johnny Depp's performance is "both disturbing and more than a little irritating ... far more misanthropic than anything Dahl wrote, he's completely lacking in the charm that allowed Wilder to get away with those insulting one-liners." As for the movie on the whole? It's "far, far better than Filmbrain imagined it would be. However, Burton (as he did in Big Fish) drags the film down into an almost Spielbergian treatise on bad fathers and the importance of family." We'll have two of our own reviews of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory his weekend, so check back for them.
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7-14-2005 @ 5:06PM
Ash said...
Burton drags Big Fish into an almost spielbergian treatise on bad fathers? That is not the movie I saw. The bit about how the father was a bad one was not as prevelant as it could have been. In as much as it was there, it needed to be for the reckoning of the two of them and their true lasting connection to eachother. Also, I am surprised that so many people are picking up on the comparison of Michael Jackson to Depp's version of the character. Just because a character is played in a perpetual state of childhood manner means that it's obviously like Michael Jackson?
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