16
Jul
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
MUMBLER!!
It’s been a long time since I’ve read the book. Longer than it has been since I saw the older version of this movie. There is more story in this one than the original movie at the very least because you only have oompa loompa songs (which are great). I loved the look, I loved the characters. I was wondering how they would modernize Mike Teavey and I think they did a great job of that too.
With all that though I felt like there was stuff that was cut out due to time constraints. It was pushing two hours and it’s not usually good to rely on kids staying still for that long, although they seemed to in the showing we saw. Anyway, I hope those extra bits are there for me to see on DVD.
I don’t recall everythign in the book to know how well it is true to that so someone else will have to fill me in on that or I’ll haev to read it again after I finish “The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.”