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Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
2005
Most nights in the Bucket home, dinner is a watered-down bowl of cabbage soup, which young Charlie gladly shares with his mother (HELENA BONHAM CARTER) and father (NOAH TAYLOR) and both pairs of grandparents. Theirs is a tiny, tumbledown, drafty old house but it is filled with love. Every night, the last thing Charlie sees from .. Read more
| Starring | Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, Helena Bonham-Carter, David Kelly |
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| Director | Tim Burton |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
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Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
Most nights in the Bucket home, dinner is a watered-down bowl of cabbage soup, which young Charlie gladly shares with his mother (HELENA BONHAM CARTER) and father (NOAH TAYLOR) and both pairs of grandparents. Theirs is a tiny, tumbledown, drafty old house but it is filled with love. Every night, the last thing Charlie sees from his window is the great factory, and he drifts off to sleep dreaming about what might be inside...
| Starring | Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, Helena Bonham-Carter, David Kelly, Noah Taylor, James Fox, Deep Roy, Missi Pyle, Anna Sophia Robb |
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| Director | Tim Burton |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 50 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 50 mins HD DVD: 1 hr 50 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| Language | DVD: English, English Audio Description Blu-ray: English HD DVD: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 21 Nov 2005 Blu-ray: 06 Apr 2009 HD DVD: 14 May 2007 Production year: 2005 |
| Format | DVD |
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Dark, dazzling and downright delicious, Tim Burton's Day-glo take on Roald Dahl's candy-coated kids' classic will blow you away. It is a riot of fiendish invention that does justice to Dahl's timeless story but manages to surpass Gene Wilder's much-loved 1971 version. It's obvious that Depp was born to play this role, and boy does he deliver. Freddie Highmore's Charlie is that rare movie kid whose wholesomeness plays as appealing rather than insufferable. But ultimately the success of this flick is due to Depp's mesmerising performance. A delight. 5 stars
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It's very much Burton's vision: the modern fairy tale town, kitsch musical number and 'gothic' Edward Gorey-inspired design.
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49 out of 65 people found this review helpful
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You can eat the grass?
'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' is based on the Roald Dahl novel of the same name. Dahl wrote many so called children's books but the stories were full of society critic. Tim Burton has followed Dahl very accurately and he has saved the critical voice of Dahl. With a lot of black humor and jokes makes the movie more than enjoyable experience.
Johnny Depp lights up every single movie he has been in, and Tim Burton always has a way of giving you a 'dark fairytale' vibe, which means it's the perfect combo...as we've have seen before in classics like Edward Scissorhands.
The inside of the factory is perfectly magical, and because of this, the movie had its final touch of greatness. Awesome musical score from Danny Elfman adds to this work perfection.
Wonderful direction, brilliant cast, make Charlie and the Chocolate Factory a tour through the factory that you cannot miss. It doesn't take a golden ticket to go see this film, so I recommend seeing it to anyone who hasn't already.
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- JediSi
- Posted 29 Sep 2007 21:44
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8 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Disappointing
Just not a patch on the Gene Wilder version ....sorry & all. THe psychedelic colours just made me wanna vomit.... Mike TV was a girl ...& Johnny Depp was just hopeless lacking charisma....complete & total rubbish
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Mendes to take Willy Wonka to the stage
- 05 Oct 2009
Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes is bringing children's classic Charlie And The Chocolate Factory to the stage. Roald Dahl's beloved book has already been turned into two successful Hollywood movies, convincing Mendes the story could be a hit musical on Broadway and the West End. The director has commissioned Scottish playwright David Greig to write the script and he has recruited Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman - the musical minds behind 2007's hit Hairspray - to provide the score. Dahl's... Read more
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Most nights in the Bucket home, dinner is a watered-down bowl of cabbage soup, which young Charlie gladly shares with his mother (HELENA BONHAM CARTER) and father (NOAH TAYLOR) and both pairs of ... -