Film: Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (1971)
Showing: New Year’s Day, 4.50pm, TV1
Why It’s A Must-See: Having claimed earlier that Burton and Depp was always a match made in heaven, it’s probably time to ‘fess up and concede that they are of course far from infallible - quite why they felt the need to remake this charmingly mental 70s fever dream of a children’s film will forever remain a mystery.
Needless to say, Burton and Depp failed to improve on the original. How could they when this version boasts Gene Wilder, forever cementing his status as the definitive candy-creating whackjob?
Don’t Get Up For A Mince Pie...actually, do get up for a mince pie - around the time the gang are all swept on a river of worryingly orangey-pin-klooking chocolate into space-time’s most chilling tunnel. You won’t sleep for a week after revisiting those childhood terrors, and that’s no way to kick-start your 2010.
We’d sooner sit alone in the dark watching The Exorcist any day...
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Comments
sleepwalker
Dec 8th 2009, 12:52
Wasnt Sparrow's rum burning tantrum in the first one!
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sleepwalker
Dec 8th 2009, 12:54
Wasnt Sparrows rum burning tantrum in the first one!
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MarkPowell
Dec 8th 2009, 16:55
Quite right sleepwalker...good spot, dunno quite how I managed that one! Amended to what it was supposed to have been originally now, ta.
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hughjass1970
Dec 8th 2009, 22:04
Dances With Wolves - catch the James Cameron remake in theatres from 17th Dec!
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Ali1748
Dec 9th 2009, 1:32
Midnight Run is such a vastly underrated film.
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lpatterson
Dec 9th 2009, 10:51
This is a brilliant feature! Now I don't have to spend two hours with the frickin Radio Times.
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Hadouken76
Dec 9th 2009, 12:59
dick tracys 'The Blank' was basically a rip off of Rorschach
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KerrAvon
Dec 9th 2009, 15:15
No Scrooged, shocking.
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KerrAvon
Dec 9th 2009, 15:16
Or Bad Santa Christmas is ruined.
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badblokebob
Dec 11th 2009, 15:18
And there I was thinking Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was an adaptation of a book by this guy called Roald Dahl.
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