[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Excellent show, Mr. Depp was as always, remarkable.

It's Tim Burton through and through and really does the book justice, it's very funny, vaguely sinister and none of the kids are annoying outside of what the roles require (unlike Jake Lloyd in SW:PM). If you think very highly of the original you may not warm to it though.
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[mikhael]

Bloody excellent. Much darker and much truer to Dahl's macabre sense of humor.

[Galemp]

Personally I didn't like Depp's one-note performance; I felt Gene Wilder did a much better job of playing the Wonka character in the book. Willy is supposed to be an eccentric genius, but someone you can warm up to... Depp's Wonka was just a giggling sociopath.

Everything else was super, though. Did the opening credits remind anyone else of Edward Scissorhands or Mars Attacks?

[mikhael]

I really felt that Wilder's performance (and the entire film) was way too candy coated (if you'll pardon the expression). Wilder's Wonka was absolutely nothing like Dahl wrote, IMO. On the other hand, Depp's disconnected, incomplete, and ultimately flawed obsessive-compulsive was far more nuanced and true to Dahl in spirit, if not necessary in absolute detail.