The amazing chocolatier
Jul. 16th, 2005 08:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaunthieThanks to the organizing talents of SunKrux, I saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory tonight in the company of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fisherbear, humilitas, Luthien, RocketMan, and two of RocketMan's buddies. Fun movie, and Johnny Depp was wonderful as usual. This was a tough part to sell, and by and large he did a great job doing it. Deep Roy, who played all of the Ooompa-Loompas, was just amazing. In fact, all of the performances were good. I only have two complaints: one, that the powers-that-be were so intent on disguising Danny Elfman's very distinctive singing voice that they sacrificed comprehensibility for distortion, and two, the father plot was a bit extraneous and cut into time that could have been better spent developing the book characters. The first quibble is the most serious, as Dahl's Oompa-Loompa lyrics are utterly delightful, and it's a serious drawback that you can't understand any of them (or at least I couldn't). You're not going to be leaving the theatre singing any of the songs, as you did with the "Oompa-Loompa-doopedy-doo" song from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
Definitely go see this in the theatre if you have a chance - the visuals deserve the big screen. If you take kids to it, realize beforehand that this is a horror movie for children, and be prepared accordingly.
fisherbear, humilitas, Luthien, RocketMan, and two of RocketMan's buddies. Fun movie, and Johnny Depp was wonderful as usual. This was a tough part to sell, and by and large he did a great job doing it. Deep Roy, who played all of the Ooompa-Loompas, was just amazing. In fact, all of the performances were good. I only have two complaints: one, that the powers-that-be were so intent on disguising Danny Elfman's very distinctive singing voice that they sacrificed comprehensibility for distortion, and two, the father plot was a bit extraneous and cut into time that could have been better spent developing the book characters. The first quibble is the most serious, as Dahl's Oompa-Loompa lyrics are utterly delightful, and it's a serious drawback that you can't understand any of them (or at least I couldn't). You're not going to be leaving the theatre singing any of the songs, as you did with the "Oompa-Loompa-doopedy-doo" song from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Definitely go see this in the theatre if you have a chance - the visuals deserve the big screen. If you take kids to it, realize beforehand that this is a horror movie for children, and be prepared accordingly.
Awww, it was my pleasure
Date: 2005-07-23 06:26 am (UTC)SunKrux