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Finally. After all these years, we know what drove Willy Wonka to his career as a master chocolatier; it was all his father's fault. Dad was a maniacal dentist who completely forbade candy...
...must know the story: saintly, poverty-stricken Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore) and his family live hard by the Wonka works, the day-to-day upkeep of which Willy (Johnny Depp) has turned over to the Oompa-Loompas. He hides five golden tickets in his candy bars, the finders of which are entitled to visit his factory. Besides Charlie, the lucky--ultimately unlucky--winners include a glutton, an overachiever, a video-game addict and a spoiled rich kid, all of whom get sadistic comeuppances from Willy that will perhaps disturb parents more than they will their offspring, since kids have...
JOHNNY DEPP has said he based his look in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory--severe bob, outsize sunglasses--on Vogue editor Anna Wintour. But in Depp's Willie Wonka, isn't there more of an echo of another media figure, one with Wonka's penchant for catchy tunes and the company of small primates? How do the candy hawker and MICHAEL JACKSON stack...
...which Steven Spielberg has added his patented parent-and-imperiled-child theme to H.G. Wells' alien-invasion novel, memorably filmed in 1953. Tim Burton has imposed his lovable eccentricity on the Roald Dahl children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, with Johnny Depp replacing Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka. In 1974, Burt Reynolds starred as the football-playing con in The Longest Yard; now he supports Adam Sandler and Chris Rock in their replay. And if your memory of Herbie, the Disney Love Bug, is as rusty as the fender of a '68 Volkswagen, strap yourself in (next...
...Batman movie looks great—I hope it’ll save the franchise after Joel Schumaker destroyed it. I want to see ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’—because I love Johnny Depp and the original Willy Wonka. I guess they’re trying to make it more modern…I was really upset because they said they CGIed the Ooompah Loompas— whatever happened to dying midgets orange...