Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, is a remake of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory, as anyone could guess. I found it quite funny. It really made me feel like a kid again! Also, it has some serious parts, showing Willy Wonka's childhood, and about his father. (which is played by Christopher Lee, by the way...) It has many different parts, which I thought neither improved or ruined the story. For example, the other children besides Charlie: their names were the same, and the had mostly the same characteristics as before, but it was modernized. ( the kid who liked cowboy shows, liked violent video games)
The Oompa Loompas were played by a cute little Italian guy. Awww. They (he) do a lot of different "Ooopa Loompa's Little Lessons" songs in the movie (when the children each do something naughty) and they're all different genres of songs. It's really cute.
If anyone is wondering whether the movie is a "must-see" or not, I'd say only if you would like to dip in the your "child-side!"

The new movie, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has the same title as Roald Dahl's book, on which it is based. The earlier movie, staring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka, was also based this same book, but was titled Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory.

Neither movie should be missed if you are young or young at heart.

Actually, I don't know for I have never read it either; however, because they did make two movies from it I have a pretty good idea that it is actually quite good. Normally they take good books and make bad movies from them rather than the other way around. Of course I may be wrong.

i liked both the first and second movies but i liked the second one more!
the book was even better than the movies!
if u havent read them or seen the movies u should no matter how old u r!

when I was little I read the book, but don't remember much of it anymore

I'd really love to see the movie though, simply coz I'm a big fan of Johnny,
actually, I can't wait to see it

from what I see in the ads...

he looks like his face was cramped in a creepy smile all the time

I think that creepy face is a standard of Tim Burton's, for examples see his The Nightmare Before Christmas.

I finally watched the movie earlier this week; it was much better story than the Gene Wilder musical version; though the music wasn't as rememberable.

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