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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 | English, English Audio Description |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | 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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Hollywood continues to do its bit for the Kyoto protocol. Is there any industry in North America with a higher commitment to recycling? Still, it's been 34 years since the last... read more »
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49 out of 65 people found this review helpful
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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- Posted 29 Sep 2007 21:44
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Where has Burton's dark days gone?
Well I won't be running out to buy any Wonka bars this week. They seem to be made quite thin these days. This film pales in comparison to the fat, well stacked, original version. It starts promising but by the end the charecters have lost all dimension and appear flatter than a pancake. While these flat charecters are bad the one redeeming feature of this film is the set. It is scrumdidiliumptious in its granduer, it's just a shame there was no one of note acting in it. The menace of the originals ending has been glossed over with happy days.
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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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