Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Critic Reviews

The satirical edge has been dulled in a film that is dominated, and ultimately swamped, by its star's mannered, pixilated performance.Read the full review

Depp deserves kudos for fashioning an original and outlandish if occasionally menacing character.Read the full review

I call it wondrous because, in spite of lapses and imperfections, a few of them serious, Mr. Burton's movie succeeds in doing what far too few films aimed primarily at children even know how to attempt anymore, which is to feed - even to glut - the youthful appetite for aesthetic surprise.Read the full review

This is a dazzling movie, yet some people (not kids, but maybe their parents) will be put off by its Grand Guignol ghoulishness.Read the full review

It's doubtful that Depp's off-kilter interpretation will have any discernible effect on the movie's success. But it remains the movie's most disappointing aspect.Read the full review

Lovers of Dahl's book will almost certainly appreciate what Burton has wrought.Read the full review

Inside the mysterious factory, a psychedelic realm where Johnny Depp's Willy Wonka holds sway, pleasure gradually gives way to a peculiar state that I can only describe as engagement without enjoyment.Read the full review

Burton's gifts ensure you won't be able to take your eyes off the screen, but that doesn't necessarily mean you'll be happy with what you're seeing.Read the full review

Here's a film about kids and for kids that has not lost touch with what it is like to actually be a kid.Read the full review