Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Reviews

John August’s script has taken the fantasy of the book and grafted it to a distinctly unsickly moral of family and hard work over imperiousness and entitlement.

The kids, their adventures and the song and dance numbers are so entertaining that Depp's strange Willy Wonka is not fatal to the movie, although it's at right angles to it.

It is a Tim Burton-Johnny Depp confection, in its sinewy strangeness and perverse comedy.

Lovers of Dahl's book, however, will almost certainly appreciate what Burton has wrought.

...Depp is unimpeachable, the actorly yin to Burton’s directorial yang, and here he submerges himself in the role as at least as deeply as he did for his most genuine and affecting turn in a Burton film, that of Ed Wood.

...a madhouse kiddie musical with a sweet-and-sour heart.

...Tim Burton [omdanner] Dahls fortælling til en visuel konfektæske af fineste karat - en magisk og klassisk fortælling med Johnny Depp som den mest eksklusive godbid.

...helt klart att Tim Burton är rätt regissör för jobbet; att adaptera en av världens mest älskade barnböcker...