Tram Town
Sunday, September 04, 2005
| Category: Pitchers Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, in keeping with its nomenclatural accuracy, is a bit more faithful to Roald Dahl's original book than Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. I was and am in awe of the 1971 fillum with Gene Wilder in the eponymous role; it was perfect in pretty much every way. Yesterday, we all paid $7 each to see the new Tim Burton and Johnny Depp production over at Airport West and decided you can have two perfect takes on the same story that are totally different. The only negative comment was that the words of the Oompa Loompa's songs were very hard to understand. This could have been the fault of the cinema's sound system but I think it is probably due to the modern propensity for over-compression. No matter how much you love the 1971 effort, go and see the new one because I think you will probably love it too. I won't tell you anything about it because it has lots of lovely surprises. Just One Guy's Opinion™. WWatCF 10.0/10.0 CatCF 9.9/10.0 (only because of the song problems) Just see it! |
