
When Willy Wonka decides to let five children into his chocolate factory, he decides to release five golden tickets in five separate chocolate bars, causing complete mayhem. The tickets start to be found, with the fifth going to a very special boy, called Charlie Bucket. With his Grandpa, Charlie joins the rest of the children to experience the most amazing factory ever. But not everything goes to plan within the factory.... (Full plot summary below)
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When Willy Wonka decides to let five children into his chocolate factory, he decides to release five golden tickets in five separate chocolate bars, causing complete mayhem. The tickets start to be found, with the fifth going to a very special boy, called Charlie Bucket. With his Grandpa, Charlie joins the rest of the children to experience the most amazing factory ever. But not everything goes to plan within the factory.
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| Dark HorizonsGarth FranklinOne of the best family films in a while and one of the year's stronger films to date. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsShane BurridgeIf Charlie is upstaged by the factory, then the factory itself gets upstaged by Willy Wonka |
| DVD VerdictBill GibronInstead of destroying a "classic," as many people feared, Burton has completely reinvented and reinvigorated it, creating something terrific and timeless. |
| Urban CinefileUrban Cinefile CriticsA visual carnival of colour and fantasy, dripping with quirk and seriously eccentric. |
| ViewLondonMatthew TurnerA hugely enjoyable, brightly coloured children's fantasy, with a terrific central performance from Johnny Depp. In a word, delicious. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeThere's more manic invention and sheer joy of filmmaking in any five minutes of Burton's Charlie than in all the mainstream releases of 2005 put together. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaA mischievously inventive, surreal entertainment, one that celebrates not only Whipple Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight and Nutty Crunch Surprise but Busby Berkeley, Stanley Kubrick, the Beatles, and the outer-space acting choices of one Johnny Depp - not to mention those bushy-tailed rodents in all their bustling splendor. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonA peach of a story delightfully imagined by Dahl and lushly realized by Burton. It's full of witty or awesome scenes, flights of fancy and characters either totally, lovably sweet or outrageously, humorously rotten. |
| Sympatico.caAngela BaldassarreCharlie's disturbing Factory.Tim Burton rendition of child's tale excessive. |
| Supercala.comJohn VenableIt's fun, it's weird, it's visually stunning. It's what going to the movies to escape is all about. |