Charlie and his cute chocolate boy looks

Well, that's probably the only thing that was good about Charlie and the Chocolate factory, the cute chocolate faced Freddie Highmore who plays Charlie Bucket. Johnny Depp is wasted as Willy Wonka and looks like a poor cousin of Edward Scissorhands sans the scissors ofcourse. Tim Burton can definitely do a better job than just pick out an old classic Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory and redo it badly.

I nearly slept during the IMAX experience, so did my wife. Frankly I didn't get it, why waste precious IMAX film for a film that doesn't need it. My advice to Tim Burton, if there is no possibility to get that tickling feeling from your toes to your loins while watching a film, keep IMAXing aside and stick to basics.

All in all if you still want to compare the old to the new, stick to a DVD hire. Just not worth the IMAX experience especially if you haven't seen an IMAX film before, you will wonder what's the big deal of IMAX.

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