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51
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47
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47
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46
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45
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43
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43
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43
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41
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39
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37
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36
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36
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36
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35
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35
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35
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34
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Warner Bros.
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG for quirky situations, action and mild language
Starring
Johnny Depp,
Freddie Highmore,
David Kelly,
Helena Bonham Carter,
Noah Taylor,
Missi Pyle, James Fox,
Deep Roy,
and
Christopher Lee
Acclaimed director Tim Burton brings his vividly imaginative style to the beloved Roald Dahl classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, about eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka (Depp) and Charlie Bucket (Highmore), a good-hearted boy from a poor family who lives in the shadow of Wonka's extraordinary factory. (Warner Bros.)
| GENRE(S): |
Adventure
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Comedy
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Family/Kids
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Fantasy
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| WRITTEN BY: |
John August
Roald Dahl (book)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Tim Burton
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 8, 2005
Video: November 8, 2005
Theatrical: July 15, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
115 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA / UK |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Those Oompa-Loompas are the beat, and soul, of Burton's finest movie since "Ed Wood": a madhouse kiddie musical with a sweet-and-sour heart.

100
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
A 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.

100
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
A 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.

100
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
On the screen, Burton turns out to BE the ideal filmmaker for this deliciously bizarre yarn. He's given free rein to his fantasies in past movies, but rarely as wittily and consistently as he does here.

91
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
It's not orthodox Dahl but it's pure Burton, and, as it's been such a very long time since moviegoers have been afforded that particular treat, it's entirely welcome.

90
Slate
David Edelstein
This is a dazzling movie, yet some people (not kids, but maybe their parents) will be put off by its Grand Guignol ghoulishness.

88
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Depp deserves kudos for fashioning an original and outlandish if occasionally menacing character.

88
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Like Roald Dahl's book, Tim Burton's splendidly imaginative and visually stunning - and often very dark and creepy - new version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is squarely aimed more at children than their parents.

88
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Bizarrely entertaining and brilliantly designed.

80
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
The first half of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a brilliant blend of the best of Burton and Dahl, with some unexpected input from Charles Dickens. In the second half, the contraptions take over, drowning whatever story remains...But it falls frustratingly short of the masterpiece it might have been.

80
Dallas Observer
Bill Gallo
A perfect marriage of author and director.

80
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Here's a film about kids and for kids that has not lost touch with what it is like to actually be a kid.

80
Empire
Olly Richards
Witty, wonderful and wildly imaginative, Burton’s first proper ‘family movie’ since "Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure" delivers a sugar rush that’ll last for days.

80
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is absinthe in movie form, a white chocolate space egg of a picture that has a giddy hallucinatory quality in some places and an overcalculated glossiness in others. But for better or worse, it's fascinating.

80
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Tim Burton finally fulfills the promise of "Beetlejuice" with this imaginative masterpiece.

80
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
I call it wondrous because, in spite of lapses and imperfections, a few of them serious, Mr. Burton's movie succeeds in doing what far too few films aimed primarily at children even know how to attempt anymore, which is to feed - even to glut - the youthful appetite for aesthetic surprise.

78
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Depp’s performance aside, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is pure magic, swimming as it is in a black-treacle riptide of astonishing Oompa Loompa production numbers, an eerie patina of CGI airbrushing (Wonka himself looks downright pasteurized), and some almost too-clever in-jokes, and at least two references to Kurt Neumann’s 1958 film "The Fly."

75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
Burton's movie is not only more faithful, complex and better cast, it has an essential ingredient: squirrels.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Now this is strange. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory succeeds in spite of Johnny Depp's performance, which should have been the high point of the movie.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
If all the laughs come from Depp, who gives Willy the mannerisms of a classic Hollywood diva, the film's heart comes from Highmore, a gifted young performer who had a leading role in "Finding Neverland." His performance is sincere, deep and unforced in a way that's rare in a child actor.

75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Lovers of Dahl's book will almost certainly appreciate what Burton has wrought.

75
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Depp and Burton fly too high on the vapors of pure imagination. But it's hard to not get hooked on something this tasty.

75
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The movie's overlong and there are lumps in the batter, but this is a ''Charlie" that the author would recognize as upholding his playfully dyspeptic tradition.

70
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Entertaining and fabulously imaginative in many ways, this second bigscreen rendition of the late author's modest morality tale on the wages of unbridled excess sports excesses of its own.

70
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
There's little wrong with Charlie, but it needs the Burton of old to animate its candy-colored universe with mischief and awe. Instead, he remains trapped like Wonka in a hermetic house of wonders, and the movie suffocates along with him.

70
Village Voice
Ed Park
Fun and nourishing, Charlie's the topsy-turvy equivalent of a three-course dinner in a single stick of gum.

70
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Burton's gifts ensure you won't be able to take your eyes off the screen, but that doesn't necessarily mean you'll be happy with what you're seeing.

70
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
Burton fans and those eager for a more accurate adaptation of the novel will be happy with this new movie, while nostalgia-addled Gen X-ers and stoners of all ages will always have the original.

63
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Burton's movie is more like Chris Columbus' first Harry Potter movie. Nearly everything that's supposed to be magical falls flat; nearly everything that's supposed to be mundane is magical.

63
Premiere
Aaron Hillis
Aesthetically wild and otherwise mild.

63
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
The eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp) can't feel pleasure, even though he's surrounded by it, so it's weirdly appropriate that the movie isn't "fun," even if it's amazing to look at.

63
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
It's Depp's misfire that keeps the picture from becoming a genuinely sweet pleasure: As it stands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is the equivalent of NutriSweet.

60
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It's doubtful that Depp's off-kilter interpretation will have any discernible effect on the movie's success. But it remains the movie's most disappointing aspect.

60
Time
Richard Schickel
This is rather a thin tale, not much thickened by Burton's direction or Depp's playing. There's a distance, a detachment to this film. It lacks passion.

60
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Neo-Gothic fantasist Tim Burton and writer John August (Big Fish) play it strictly by the book for this darker but far more faithful adaptation of Roald Dahl's cautionary 1964 young-adult novel.

60
New York Magazine
Ken Tucker
It turns out that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is half goofy-great, and half just a goof.

60
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
Dahl’s story was never intended to be anything other than a sticky-fingered feast, whereas the movie flits through pedophobic creepiness and ends up as a slightly costive parable of family values.

50
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Inside the mysterious factory, a psychedelic realm where Johnny Depp's Willy Wonka holds sway, pleasure gradually gives way to a peculiar state that I can only describe as engagement without enjoyment.
50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Its heart is in the right place and it resists the temptation to junk up the story, but Depp does nothing with his character and the movie has little of the unique wit or panache that would make it appealing to an older-than-10 audience.

30
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
The satirical edge has been dulled in a film that is dominated, and ultimately swamped, by its star's mannered, pixilated performance.


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