Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (Deluxe Edition, 2 DVDs)

Charlie Bucket is a 10 year old boy who lives with his parents, and 4 ederly grandparents. His family are very very poor, but very very loving and close. Charlies dream is to win the competition with Willy Wonkas factory, in which he needs to find one of only 5 golden tickets hidden in chocolate bars. Charlies luck is in, he of course wins won, and goes with his grandpa Joe to the factory for the guided tour. The other 4 children are not like charlie, who is a sweet, polite lovely young chap. The others are, Veruca Salt, a rich spoiled 'daddy i want that now' girl, Violet beuragarde a stuck up champion winner in everything. Augustus Gloop, a greedy boy, and Mike Teavee, ...  Read the complete review

Roald Dahl originally wrote ‘Charlie And The Chocolate Factory’ in 1964. It tells the tale of a young, impoverished boy named Charlie Bucket who lives with his mother and father, as well as his four bed-ridden grandparents. Every day on his way to school, Charlie passes the chocolate factory, which is owned by Willy Wonka and has been closed to the public for years. When Charlie discovers that Willy Wonka is running a competition to allow five children the opportunity to visit his factory by placing five ‘Golden Tickets’ is his Wonka Bars, Charlie wishes he could win one of those tickets and see the Chocolate Factory for himself. After some initial set-backs, such ...  Read the complete review

This is the story of what happens when the mysterious and amazing Willy Wonka lets five lucky children get an exclusive tour of his world-famous chocolate (and candy) factory. Oh, dear - I've given this only three stars. That must mean that I'm going to trash this movie. Well, actually I'm not going to totally trash it, but I do have my problems with this movie, and this is what I think. First of all, having read the book several times, I was a bit disappointed that this movie adds so much that's not in the book and also incorporates bits from the sequel book, Charlie & the Great Glass Elevator. Of course, often this is the case when making a movie out of ...  Read the complete review

Great though the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was, it took certain liberties with the book which upset some fans and the Dahl estate. Throw in the fact that the remake was scheduled to see yet another team up between Tim Burton and Johnny Depp, and there were plenty of reasons to expect a mouth-watering treat. It's ironic, then, that Charlie actually falls short of its predecessor and even more ironic that one of the reasons for this is precisely because it is such a faithful adaptation of the book. With one major exception (more on that in a moment), the film almost exclusively - you might say slavishly - follows the narrative structure of ...  Read the complete review

As a child I was always captivated by tales from the dark mind of Roald Dahl. Perhaps one of his greatest tales was “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”. The story of a poor boy who wins against the odds isn’t uncommon but it was always the piece that sandwiched such an ordinary premise that set aside the British/Norwegian genius. Never happy with the Gene Wilder led 1971 movie version, the film-makers were instructed not to use the book’s title for the movie such was Dahl’s angst with the way that film panned out. And so “Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory” was re-made by the inspirational Tim Burton to hopefully do justice to its original creator’s wishes and carry ...  Read the complete review