Charlie and the chocolate factory - The new version - Rating ✰✰✰✰✰
Based on the ever famous Roald Dahl’s novel. This film features some good actors such as Johnny Depp (Playing Willy Wonka) and Helena Bonham Carter (Charlie’s mother). The new version of this film is truly fantastic. Without spoiling too much of it for you, the basic plot follows that a Strange chocolate factory owner (Willy Wonka) decides to allow 5 lucky people a chance to look into the factory that has not been open to the public for many years. He does this through the pursuit of 'Golden Tickets', whereby the tickets could be hidden in any Wonka bar in any store anywhere and only 5 people will get one. Not only that but he will offer a special prize to one of the 5 lucky winners.
Meanwhile a little boy named Charlie from a poor family gets his hopes up that he will be able to get a golden ticket. However he only receives one Wonka bar a year for his birthday due to his family’s poor wealth. Secretly Charlie’s Grandpa Joe would like him to win a golden ticket too as he used to work at Willy Wonka’s factory as a younger man and hopes to return again as Charlie guardian. Things change for Charlie and he discovers that all is not as it seems regarding Willy Wonka and his factory. Even the 'special prize' at the end has its catches. Will it be the happy ending that Charlie wants? Also will Willy Wonka get the happy ending that he has so longed for?
The special effects during the film are fantastic (especially when they are inside the factory). The film includes humour regarding some of the characters eg. Augustus Gloop falling in the chocolate river. What i also personally found good about the film is that it sticks to the plot synopsis of the book, whilst in the old film the scene where Veruca Salt gets taken away down the squirrel shoot for trying to steal one of the squirrels, had been replaced with her getting taken down a hen shoot for trying to steal one of their 'golden eggs'. Roald Dahl Unsurprisingly wasn’t very happy with this. Johnny Depp plays an excellent part as Willy Wonka, quite a bizarre character actually (as always the bizarre character is played by Johnny Depp, directed by Tim Burton and involves Helena Bonham Carter somewhere acting in the film).
What this film got me to think, which the old film failed to do was 'is Willy Wonka really nice person?'. He seems to know what is going to happen to the kids as they get taken out of the factory because the Umpa Lumpa's have rehearsed songs especially for the occasions. So i was questioning 'is Willy Wonka responsible for the children encountering temptations which they couldn’t resist leading them to problems?'. Did Willy Wonka plan these temptations deliberately for the children, so they would get into accidents? In the old film he just comes across as weird but nice, too nice. Rather as the new Willy Wonka comes across as weird and hard to work out. A bit more like you would imagine a strange character like Willy Wonka to act.
All in all i cannot fault the film, its better than the old one. It has some great actor’s init and some that are unknown but the mix works well. The opening sequence introducing the actors has fantastic special effects which are also used through the course of the film. Also the musical sequences are fantastic and everything works well.
Great for all ages, all people and all cultures. Not offensive to anyone and everyone can relate to the plot and the characters because there is such a range of characters in the film. It challenges the stereotypes and differences between people regarding their wealth power and positions in the social hierarchy of society. However it does show that good honest and nice people do prevail as the winners in the end. There is no place for nasty people. Tim Burton acts as an auteur representing his own ideology of what a perfect world would look like to him.
A true piece of art by Tim Burton, he has managed to take an old classic and revive it into a new blockbuster by putting his own twist on the fantastic novel by Roald Dahl.
Fantastic!
5/5 Rating
Based on the ever famous Roald Dahl’s novel. This film features some good actors such as Johnny Depp (Playing Willy Wonka) and Helena Bonham Carter (Charlie’s mother). The new version of this film is truly fantastic. Without spoiling too much of it for you, the basic plot follows that a Strange chocolate factory owner (Willy Wonka) decides to allow 5 lucky people a chance to look into the factory that has not been open to the public for many years. He does this through the pursuit of 'Golden Tickets', whereby the tickets could be hidden in any Wonka bar in any store anywhere and only 5 people will get one. Not only that but he will offer a special prize to one of the 5 lucky winners.
Meanwhile a little boy named Charlie from a poor family gets his hopes up that he will be able to get a golden ticket. However he only receives one Wonka bar a year for his birthday due to his family’s poor wealth. Secretly Charlie’s Grandpa Joe would like him to win a golden ticket too as he used to work at Willy Wonka’s factory as a younger man and hopes to return again as Charlie guardian. Things change for Charlie and he discovers that all is not as it seems regarding Willy Wonka and his factory. Even the 'special prize' at the end has its catches. Will it be the happy ending that Charlie wants? Also will Willy Wonka get the happy ending that he has so longed for?
The special effects during the film are fantastic (especially when they are inside the factory). The film includes humour regarding some of the characters eg. Augustus Gloop falling in the chocolate river. What i also personally found good about the film is that it sticks to the plot synopsis of the book, whilst in the old film the scene where Veruca Salt gets taken away down the squirrel shoot for trying to steal one of the squirrels, had been replaced with her getting taken down a hen shoot for trying to steal one of their 'golden eggs'. Roald Dahl Unsurprisingly wasn’t very happy with this. Johnny Depp plays an excellent part as Willy Wonka, quite a bizarre character actually (as always the bizarre character is played by Johnny Depp, directed by Tim Burton and involves Helena Bonham Carter somewhere acting in the film).
What this film got me to think, which the old film failed to do was 'is Willy Wonka really nice person?'. He seems to know what is going to happen to the kids as they get taken out of the factory because the Umpa Lumpa's have rehearsed songs especially for the occasions. So i was questioning 'is Willy Wonka responsible for the children encountering temptations which they couldn’t resist leading them to problems?'. Did Willy Wonka plan these temptations deliberately for the children, so they would get into accidents? In the old film he just comes across as weird but nice, too nice. Rather as the new Willy Wonka comes across as weird and hard to work out. A bit more like you would imagine a strange character like Willy Wonka to act.
All in all i cannot fault the film, its better than the old one. It has some great actor’s init and some that are unknown but the mix works well. The opening sequence introducing the actors has fantastic special effects which are also used through the course of the film. Also the musical sequences are fantastic and everything works well.
Great for all ages, all people and all cultures. Not offensive to anyone and everyone can relate to the plot and the characters because there is such a range of characters in the film. It challenges the stereotypes and differences between people regarding their wealth power and positions in the social hierarchy of society. However it does show that good honest and nice people do prevail as the winners in the end. There is no place for nasty people. Tim Burton acts as an auteur representing his own ideology of what a perfect world would look like to him.
A true piece of art by Tim Burton, he has managed to take an old classic and revive it into a new blockbuster by putting his own twist on the fantastic novel by Roald Dahl.
Fantastic!
5/5 Rating
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