I won't compare with Gene Wilder since I don't know the first film very well (pretty unknown flick here in Europe) and those comparisons should stop anyway. Johnny Depp proposes another inventive and completely wacky interpretation here. Burton never has been so generous in terms of human warmness. It just never stops (I realize it might be a flaw for some people in fact). Very much like the book, even though it seems simple and childish, you would like to stop for a second to collect those feelings and try to analyze them but you don't have the time. All kinds of them: laughs (many the audience laughed almost every thirty seconds), tears of joy (we all know Charlie's gonna find that ticket but when he does, you just can't refrain your heart to beat faster), mercy (the way Burton depicts the social misery of the Bucket's family is really touching), amazement (the Wonka Factory and its many rooms is true wonder, one the most achieved design Burton ever offered us) and many mores. Hopefully, Danny Elfman is there with a crazy mix of the Edward Scissorhands and Spider-Man (the music when the title of the film appears gave me shivers), a true musical roller-coaster that gives a hint on what his score will sound like through the film. It's not that important but it's a Tim Burton film and we know how much he usually works on his main title. Since the film was proudly made with "real" sets, "real" Oompas Loompas, "real" squirrels, the main title looks inappropriate. The sequence is very entertaining and visually ambitious but they decided to go with CGI and it looks like it was a decision they made in last minute. And that's what Charlie & The Chocolate Factory is all about It all begins with a main title sequence that may be one of the main weaknesses of the film. A world that remains frightening and weird even thought we call it "reality" but a world worth living in. His vision of the world slightly changed in every of his films : now, the rejected freak comes down to the world and stays. Since Mars Attacks !, and more specifically since Big Fish, Burton decided to tell things differently. Fans of his first period, with all the lonely and desperate characters won't like it for sure. I actually never thought he would offer us such a film one day. But what I have been through yesterday his really unique. I have been a Tim Burton fan for more than a decade now I grew up with his films. Especially with all that criticism rising around the film before it has been released. Burton and his team made me cross deserves an homage. I have seen Charlie & The Chocolate Factory last night and though I usually don't care very much in giving my opinion, the journey M.
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