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For the 1971 film adaptation, see Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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Theatrical release poster
Directed byTim Burton
Screenplay byJohn August
Based onCharlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
Produced by
  • Brad Grey
  • Richard D. Zanuck
Starring
  • Johnny Depp
  • Freddie Highmore
  • David Kelly
  • Helena Bonham Carter
  • Noah Taylor
  • Missi Pyle
  • James Fox
  • Deep Roy
  • Christopher Lee
CinematographyPhilippe Rousselot
Edited byChris Lebenzon
Music byDanny Elfman
Production
companies
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • July 10, 2005 (2005-07-10) (Grauman's Chinese Theatre)
  • July 15, 2005 (2005-07-15) (United States)
  • July 29, 2005 (2005-07-29) (United Kingdom)
Running time
115 minutes[1]
Countries
  • United States
  • United Kingdom[2]
  • Australia[3]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$150 million[4]
Box office$475 million[5]

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 2005 musical fantasy film directed by Tim Burton and written by John August, based on the 1964 British novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. The film stars Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka and Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket, alongside David Kelly, Helena Bonham Carter, Noah Taylor, Missi Pyle, James Fox, Deep Roy, and Christopher Lee. The storyline follows Charlie as he wins a contest along with four other children and is led by Wonka on a tour of his chocolate factory.

Development for a second adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory began in 1991, which resulted in Warner Bros. providing the Dahl estate with total artistic control. Prior to Burton's involvement, directors such as Gary Ross, Rob Minkoff, Martin Scorsese, and Tom Shadyac had been involved, while actors Bill Murray, Nicolas Cage, Jim Carrey, Michael Keaton, Brad Pitt, Will Smith, Adam Sandler, and many others, were either in discussion with or considered by the studio to play Wonka. Burton immediately brought regular collaborators Depp and Danny Elfman aboard. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory represents the first time since The Nightmare Before Christmas that Elfman contributed to a film score using written songs and his vocals.

Filming took place from June to December 2004 at Pinewood Studios in the United Kingdom. Rather than using computer-generated environments, Burton primarily used built sets and practical effects, which he claimed was inspired by the book's emphasis on texture. Wonka's chocolate room was constructed on the 007 Stage at Pinewood, complete with a faux chocolate waterfall and river. Squirrels were trained from birth for Veruca Salt's demise. Actor Deep Roy performed each Oompa-Loompa individually rather than one performance duplicated digitally.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was released to positive critical reviews, with praise directed towards the visuals, set design, musical numbers, child stars, and Burton's direction. Depp's performance as Willy Wonka received a more polarized response. The film was a box office success, grossing US$475 million and becoming the eighth-highest-grossing film worldwide in 2005.

Plot

Charlie Bucket is a kind and loving boy who lives with his family in poverty near the Wonka Factory. The company's owner, Willy Wonka, has long since closed his factory to the public due to problems concerning industrial espionage, and all employees, including Charlie's Grandpa Joe, were fired. Charlie's father, meanwhile, was more recently fired from his job of screwing toothpaste caps, although he does not admit this to Charlie.

One day, Wonka announces a contest in which Golden Tickets have been placed in five random Wonka Bars worldwide, and the winners will receive a full tour of the factory as well as a lifetime supply of chocolate, while one will receive an additional prize at the end of the tour. Wonka's sales subsequently skyrocket, and the first four tickets are found by the gluttonous Augustus Gloop, the spoiled Veruca Salt, the arrogant Violet Beauregarde, and the ill-tempered Mike Teavee. Charlie tries twice to find a ticket, but both bars come up empty. After overhearing that the final ticket was found in Russia, Charlie finds a ten-dollar note and purchases a third Wonka Bar. The Russian ticket is revealed to be a forgery just as Charlie discovers the real ticket inside the wrapper. He receives monetary offers for the ticket, but the cashier warns him not to trade it regardless, and Charlie runs back home. At home, Charlie says that he wants to trade it for money for his family's betterment. After a pep talk from Grandpa George however, he decides to keep it and brings Grandpa Joe to accompany him on the tour.

Charlie and the other ticket holders are greeted outside the factory by Wonka, who then leads them into the facility. Individual character flaws cause the other four children to give into temptation, resulting in their elimination from the tour while Wonka's new employees, the Oompa-Loompas, sing a song of morality after each. Meanwhile, Wonka reminisces on his troubled past and how his dentist father, Wilbur, strictly forbade him from consuming candy due to potential dental risks. After sneaking a piece of candy, Wonka instantly became hooked and ran away from home to follow his dreams. When he returned however, both his father and their house were gone. After the tour, the four eliminated children leave the factory with an exaggerated characteristic or deformity related to their elimination while Charlie learns that Wonka, now approaching retirement, intended to find a worthy heir. Since Charlie was the "least rotten" of the five, Wonka invites Charlie to come live and work in the factory with him, provided that he leave his family behind. Charlie declines, as his family is the most important thing in his life.

As Charlie and his family live contently, Wonka becomes despondent, causing his company and sales to decline. He eventually turns to Charlie for advice, and he decides to help Wonka reconcile with his estranged father. During the reunion, Charlie notices newspaper clippings of Wonka's success which Wilbur collected while Wonka realizes the value of family as he and Wilbur finally reconcile. Afterwards, Wonka allows Charlie and his family to move into the factory together.

Cast

  • Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka
  • Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket
  • David Kelly as Grandpa Joe
  • Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Bucket
  • Noah Taylor as Mr. Bucket
  • Missi Pyle as Mrs. Beauregarde
  • James Fox as Mr. Salt
  • Deep Roy as Oompa-Loompas (with vocal work by Danny Elfman)
  • Christopher Lee as Dr. Wilbur Wonka
  • Adam Godley as Mr. Teavee
  • Franziska Troegner as Mrs. Gloop
  • AnnaSophia Robb as Violet Beauregarde
  • Julia Winter as Veruca Salt
  • Jordan Fry as Mike Teavee
  • Philip Wiegratz as Augustus Gloop
  • Liz Smith as Grandma Georgina
  • Eileen Essell as Grandma Josephine
  • David Morris as Grandpa George
  • Nitin Ganatra as Prince Pondicherry
  • Shelley Conn as Princess Pondicherry
  • Geoffrey Holder as the Narrator

Production

Development

Author Roald Dahl disapproved of the 1971 film adaptation. Warner Bros. and Brillstein-Grey Entertainment entered discussions with the Dahl estate in 1991, hoping to purchase the rights to produce another film version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The purchase was finalized in 1998,[6] with Dahl's widow, Felicity ("Liccy"), and daughter, Lucy, receiving total artistic control and final privilege on the choices of actors, directors and writers. The Dahl estate's subsequent protection of the source material was the main reason that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory had languished in development hell since the 1990s.[7][8]

Scott Frank was hired to write the screenplay in February 1999, after approaching Warner Bros. for the job.[8] Frank, a recent Oscar-nominee for the R-rated crime film Out of Sight, wanted to work on a film that his children could enjoy.[9][10][11] As an enthusiastic fan of the book, he intended to remain more faithful to Dahl's vision than the 1971 film had been.[8] Nicolas Cage was under discussions for Willy Wonka, but lost interest.[12] Gary Ross signed to direct in February 2000,[13] which resulted in Frank completing two drafts of the screenplay,[11] before leaving with Ross in September 2001.[14] Both Warner Bros. and the Dahl Estate wanted Frank to stay on the project, but he faced scheduling conflicts and contractual obligations with Minority Report (2002) and The Lookout (2007).[11]

Rob Minkoff entered negotiations to take the director's position in October 2001,[15] and Gwyn Lurie was hired to start from scratch on a new script in February 2002. Lurie said she would adapt the original book and ignore the 1971 film adaptation. Dahl's estate championed Lurie after being impressed with her work on another Dahl adaptation, a live-action adaptation of The BFG, for Paramount Pictures, which was never made (Paramount distributed the earlier 1971 film version of Charlie, and later sold the rights to WB).[16] In April 2002, Martin Scorsese was involved with the film, albeit briefly, but opted to direct The Aviator instead.[12] Warner Bros. president Alan F. Horn wanted Tom Shadyac to direct Jim Carrey as Willy Wonka, believing the duo could make Charlie and the Chocolate Factory relevant to mainstream audiences, but Liccy Dahl opposed this.[7]

Pre-production

After receiving enthusiastic approval from the Dahl estate, Warner Bros. hired Tim Burton to direct in May 2003.[6] Burton compared the project's languishing development to Batman (1989), which he directed, in how there had been varied creative efforts with both films. He said, "Scott Frank's version was the best, probably the clearest, and the most interesting, but they had abandoned that."[17] Liccy Dahl commented that Burton was the first and only director the estate was happy with. He had previously produced another of the author's adaptations with James and the Giant Peach (1996), and, like Roald and Liccy, disliked the 1971 film because it strayed from the book's storyline.[7]

As a child, Dahl was the author who I connected to the most. He got the idea of writing a mixture of light and darkness, and not speaking down to kids, and the kind of politically incorrect humor that kids get. I've always liked that, and it's shaped everything I've felt that I've done.

—Tim Burton[17]

During pre-production, Burton visited Dahl's former home in the Buckinghamshire village of Great Missenden. Liccy Dahl remembers Burton entering Dahl's famed writing shed and saying, "This is the Buckets' house!" and thinking to herself, "Thank God, somebody gets it." Liccy also showed Burton the original handwritten manuscripts, which Burton discovered were more politically incorrect than the published book. The manuscripts included a child named Herpes, after the sexually transmitted disease.[17] Burton immediately thought of Johnny Depp for the role of Willy Wonka, who joined the film in August 2003, marking his fourth collaboration with the director.[18]

Lurie's script received a rewrite by Pamela Pettler, who worked with Burton on Corpse Bride, but the director hired Big Fish screenwriter John August in December 2003 to start from scratch.[12] Both August and Burton were fans of the book since their childhoods.[17] August first read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory when he was eight years old, and subsequently sent Dahl a fan letter. He did not see the 1971 film prior to his hiring, which Burton believed would be fundamental in having August stay closer to the book.[19] The writer updated the Mike Teavee character into an obsessive video game player, as compared to the novel, in which he fantasized about violent crime films. The characters Arthur Slugworth and Prodnose were reduced to brief cameo appearances, while Mr. Beauregarde was entirely omitted.[20]

Burton and August also worked together in creating Wilbur Wonka, Willy's domineering dentist father. Burton thought the paternal character would help explain Willy Wonka himself and that otherwise he would be "just a weird guy".[4] The element of an estranged father-son relationship had previously appeared in Big Fish, similarly directed by Burton and written by August. Warner Bros. and the director held differences over the characterizations of Charlie Bucket and Willy Wonka. The studio wanted to entirely delete Mr. Bucket and make Willy Wonka the idyllic father figure Charlie had longed for his entire life. Burton believed that Wonka would not be a good father, finding the character similar to a recluse.[21] Burton said, "In some ways, he's more screwed up than the kids." Warner Bros. also wanted Charlie to be a whiz kid, but Burton resisted the characterization. He wanted Charlie to be an average child who would be in the background and not get in trouble.[17]

Casting

Prior to Burton's involvement, Warner Bros. considered or discussed Willy Wonka with Bill Murray, Christopher Walken, Steve Martin, Robin Williams, Nicolas Cage, Jim Carrey, Michael Keaton, Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Will Smith, Mike Myers, Ben Stiller, Leslie Nielsen, three members of Monty Python, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, as well as Patrick Stewart, and Adam Sandler.[22][23][24][25][26][27] Dustin Hoffman and Marilyn Manson reportedly sought the role as well.[23][28] Pitt's production company, Plan B Entertainment, however, stayed on to co-finance the film with Warner Bros.[7] Johnny Depp was the only actor Burton considered for the role,[17] although Dwayne Johnson was Burton's second choice in case Depp was unavailable.[29] Depp signed on without reading the script under the intention of going with a completely different approach than what Gene Wilder did in the 1971 film adaptation.[30] Depp said regardless of the original film, Gene Wilder's characterization of Willy Wonka stood out as a unique portrayal.[7]

Depp and Burton derived their Willy Wonka from children's television show hosts such as Bob Keeshan from Captain Kangaroo, Fred Rogers, and Al Lewis from The Uncle Al Show, and Depp also took inspiration from various game show hosts.[31] Burton recalled from his childhood that the characters were bizarre but left lasting impressions. He said, "It was kind of a strange amalgamation of these weird children's TV show hosts."[17] Depp based Wonka's exaggerated bob cut and sunglasses on Vogue magazine editor Anna Wintour.[32]

Comparisons were drawn between Willy Wonka and Michael Jackson. Burton disagreed with the comparisons, noting that Jackson, unlike Wonka, liked children.[21] Depp said the similarities with Jackson never occurred to him. Instead, he compared Wonka to Howard Hughes due to his "reclusive, germaphobe, controlling" nature.[31] Burton agreed with the similarity to Hughes. He also cited Charles Foster Kane from Citizen Kane as an inspiration for Wonka, as Kane is "somebody who was brilliant but then was traumatized and then retreats into their own world".[17] Depp wanted to sport prosthetic makeup for the part and have a long, elongated nose, but Burton believed it would be too outrageous. During production, Gene Wilder, in an interview with The Daily Telegraph, accused the filmmakers of only remaking the 1971 film for the purpose of money.[33] Depp said he was disappointed by Wilder's comment, and responded that the film was not a remake, but a new adaptation of Dahl's 1964 book.[4]

The casting calls for Charlie Bucket, Violet Beauregarde, Veruca Salt, and Mike Teavee took place in the United States and United Kingdom, while Augustus Gloop's casting took place in Germany. Burton said he sought actors "who had something of the character in them", and found Mike Teavee the hardest character to cast.[17] Burton was having trouble casting Charlie, until Depp, who had worked with Freddie Highmore on Finding Neverland, suggested Highmore for the part. Highmore had already read the book before, but decided to read it once more prior to auditioning.[34] The actor did not see the original film adaptation, and chose not to see it until after Burton's production, so his portrayal would not be influenced.[35] Before Adam Godley was officially cast as Mr. Teavee, Tim Allen, Ray Romano, and Bob Saget were considered for the role.[36] Gregory Peck was reportedly considered for the role of Grandpa Joe but died before being able to accept the role.[37]

Filming

Principal photography for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory started on June 21, 2004,[12] at Pinewood Studios in England, where the majority of scenes taking place in and outside of the factory were filmed.[38] The exterior of Augustus Gloop's home, in the film subtitled as Düsseldorf, Germany, was shot in Gengenbach, Germany.[39] The interior of the toothpaste factory was shot at a CompAir factory in High Wycombe, England.[40] For the exterior of Veruca Salt's home, a building in Wrotham Park, South Mimms, England, was used.[41] The interior was filmed at Hatfield House, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, in England.[42] The exterior of Violet Beauregard's home was shot in Buford, Georgia, US.[43] Director Tim Burton and composer Danny Elfman found filming somewhat difficult because they were simultaneously working on Corpse Bride.[21] The Wonka factory exterior was coincidentally constructed on the same backlot Burton had used for Gotham City in 1989's Batman.[17] The ceremonial scene required 500 local extras.[7] The chocolate river setpiece filled Pinewood's 007 Stage. As a consequence of British Equity rules, which state that children can only work four and a half hours a day, filming for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory took six months, ending in December 2004.[17]

Design

The architecture of the Bucket family home was influenced by Burton's visit to Roald Dahl's writing hut. Like the book, the film has a "timeless" setting and is not set in a specific country. "We've tried not to pinpoint it to any place," production designer Alex McDowell explained. "The cars, in fact, drive down the middle of the road."[7] The town, whose design was shaped by the black and white urban photography of Bill Brandt, as well as Pittsburgh and Northern England, is arranged like a medieval village, with Wonka's estate on top and the Bucket shack below.[7] The filmmakers also used fascist architecture for Wonka's factory exterior, and designed most of the sets on 360-degree sound stages, similar to cycloramas. Burton biographer Mark Salisbury wrote that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory "melds 1950s and '70s visuals with a futuristic sensibility that seems straight out of a 1960s sense of the future."[17] The "TV Room" was patterned after photographs from the films 2001: A Space Odyssey, Danger: Diabolik, and THX 1138. Danger Diabolik also served as inspiration for the Nut Room and Inventing Room.[17]

Visual effects

A miniature town was constructed for exterior shots of the town and factory rather than using CGI.

Tim Burton avoided using too many digital effects to reflect the original book's emphasis on texture and because he wanted the younger actors to feel as if they were working in a realistic environment.[44] As a result, forced perspective techniques, oversized props and scale models were used to avoid computer-generated imagery (CGI) wherever possible.[17] Deep Roy was cast to play the Oompa-Loompas based on his previous collaborations with Burton on Planet of the Apes and Big Fish. The actor was able to play various Oompa-Loompas using split screen photography, digital and front projection effects.[4] "Tim told me that the Oompa-Loompas were strictly programmed, like robots—all they do is work, work, work," Roy commented. "So when it comes time to dance, they're like a regiment; they do the same steps."[45] Roy, who played a total of 165 individual Oompa-Loompas in the film, experienced an especially laborious regimen during production. He was required to regularly practice Pilates with a personal trainer and follow a diet in order for his appearance to remain unchanged during filming. With no prior professional dancing experience, each musical number involving Roy took a month to rehearse and six months in total to film.[46][47] In referencing his workload during production, Burton called Roy the "hardest-working man in show biz."[48]

A practical method was considered for the scene in which Violet Beauregarde turns blue and swells up into a giant 10-foot blueberry. A suit with an air hose was considered at one point for the beginnings of the swelling scene, before the decision was made to create the entire transformation digitally. The visual effects house Cinesite was recruited for this assignment. In some shots, AnnaSophia Robb wore a facial prosthetic to give the impression that her cheeks had swollen up as well. Because this decision was made late in the film's production, any traces of the scene were omitted from trailers or promotional material.[citation needed]

Rather than rely on CGI, Burton wanted the 40 squirrels in the Nut Room to be real. The animals were trained every day for 10 weeks before filming commenced. They began their coaching while newborns, fed by bottles to form relationships with human trainers. The squirrels were each taught how to sit upon a little bar stool, tap and then open a walnut, and deposit its meat onto a conveyor belt.[7] "Ultimately, the scene was supplemented by CGI and animatronics," Burton said, "but for the close-ups and the main action, they're the real thing."[17] Wonka's candy boat for the chocolate river sequence floats down a realistic river filled with 192,000 gallons of faux melted chocolate.[49] "Having seen the first film, we wanted to make the chocolate river look edible," McDowell said. "In the first film, it's so distasteful." The production first considered a digitally created river, but Burton was impressed with the artificial substance when he saw how it clung to the candy boat's oars. Nine shades of chocolate were tested before Burton settled on the proper hue.[7] The boat, used by the characters to travel down the chocolate river, took 20 weeks to build and incorporated 54 animatronic Oompa-Loompas, along with its own internal rowing mechanism.[50]

Music

Further information: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (soundtrack)

The film's score was written by Danny Elfman, a frequent collaborator with director Tim Burton. The original motion picture soundtrack was released on July 12, 2005 by Warner Bros. Records.[51] Elfman's score is based around three primary themes: a gentle family theme for the Buckets, generally set in upper woodwinds; a mystical, string-driven waltz for Willy Wonka; and a hyper-upbeat factory theme for full orchestra, Elfman's homemade synthesizer samples and the diminutive chanting voices of the Oompa-Loompas.[52]

Elfman also wrote and performed the vocals for four songs, with pitch changes and modulations to represent different singers.[53] The lyrics to the Oompa-Loompa songs are adapted from the original book, and are thus credited to Roald Dahl.[52] Following Burton's suggestion, each song in the score is designed to reflect a different archetype.[53][54] "Wonka's Welcome Song" is a maddeningly cheerful theme park ditty, "Augustus Gloop" a Bollywood spectacle per Deep Roy's suggestion,[45] "Violet Beauregarde" is 1970s funk, "Veruca Salt" is 1960s bubblegum and psychedelic pop, and "Mike Teavee" is a tribute to late 1970s hard rock, particularly Queen, and early 1980s hair bands.[52][53] Richard Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra, which plays during a sequence in the film, was included as a direct reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey.[55]

Release

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory had its premiere at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre on July 10, 2005, where money for the Make-a-Wish Foundation was raised.[56] The film was released in the United States on July 15, 2005, in 3,770 theaters,[5] including IMAX theaters.[57]

Marketing

A limited set of Wonka Bars were released as part of the film's marketing campaign.

Early in the development of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in February 2000, Warner Bros. announced their intention of marketing the film with a Broadway theatre musical after release.[13] The studio reiterated their interest in May 2003;[6] however, the idea was postponed by the time filming began in June 2004.[7] The main tie-in for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory focused on The Willy Wonka Candy Company, a division of Nestlé. A small range of Wonka Bars were launched, utilizing their prominence in the film.[58] In line with the film's theatrical release in the US, an eponymous tie-in video game was released on the Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, and Microsoft Windows platforms.[59] The release of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory also rekindled public interest in Roald Dahl's 1964 book, and appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list from July 3 to October 23, 2005.[60][61]

Home media

The film was released on VHS and DVD on November 8, 2005, and on HD DVD in 2006, along with several special features documenting the film's production.[62][63] It was later released on Blu-ray in 2011, followed by a 10th anniversary Blu-ray release in 2015, including a personal retrospective by director Tim Burton and a photo book.[63]

Reception

Box office

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory earned $56,178,450 in its opening weekend,[5] the fifth-highest opening-weekend gross for 2005, and stayed at No. 1 for two weeks.[64] At the time of release, the film's opening earnings marked Depp's highest to date, surpassing Pirates of the Caribbean's $46,630,690 opening. Its overall good performance was attributed to largely favorable reviews by critics.[65] The film eventually grossed $206,459,076 in US totals and $268,509,687 in foreign countries, coming to a worldwide total of $474,968,763. It was the 58th-highest-grossing film of all time when released,[5] as well as seventh-highest for the US and eighth-highest worldwide for the year of 2005.[64]

Critical response

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 83% of 230 reviews are positive, and the average rating is 7.2/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Closer to the source material than 1971's Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is for people who like their Chocolate visually appealing and dark."[66] According to Metacritic, which calculated a weighted average score of 72 out of 100 from 40 critic reviews, the film received "generally favorable reviews".[67] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A–" on an A+ to F scale.[68]

The film's set design received widespread praise.

A. O. Scott of The New York Times gave a positive review, writing "in spite of relapses 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." Scott also praised Alex McDowell's set design, comparing the look of the factory to something out of Fritz Lang's Metropolis.[69] Mick LaSalle from the San Francisco Chronicle found Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Burton's "best work in years. If all the laughs come from Depp, who gives Willy the mannerisms of a classic Hollywood diva, the film's heart comes from Highmore, a gifted young performer whose performance is sincere, deep and unforced in a way that's rare in a child actor."[70] Peter Travers wrote in Rolling Stone magazine that "Depp's deliciously demented take on Willy Wonka demands to be seen. Depp goes deeper to find the bruises on Wonka's secret heart than what Gene Wilder did. Depp and Burton may fly too high on the vapors of pure imagination, but it's hard to not get hooked on something this tasty. And how about that army of Oompa-Loompas, all played by Deep Roy, in musical numbers that appear to have been choreographed by Busby Berkeley on crack."[71]

Johnny Depp's performance as Willy Wonka was divisive among critics. Roger Ebert, who was pleased with the overall film, was disappointed with Depp's performance: "What was Depp thinking of? In Pirates of the Caribbean he was famously channeling Keith Richards, which may have primed us to look for possible inspirations for this performance."[72] Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post criticized Depp's acting. "The cumulative effect isn't pretty. Nor is it kooky, funny, eccentric or even mildly interesting. Indeed, throughout his fey, simpering performance, Depp seems to be straining so hard for weirdness that the entire enterprise begins to feel like those excruciating occasions when your parents tried to be hip."[73] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly praised Depp's performance, writing "he maintains the paradox, the mystery, of Willy Wonka: a misanthrope who has little patience for children, who can’t even utter the word 'parents' without gagging, yet who invents for those same kids the purest and most luscious candies out of the sugar dream of his imagination."[74] Depp received a Golden Globe nomination for his performance.

Retrospective reviews have been polarizing, with Life magazine in 2021 describing the film as "popular but divisive."[75] Entertainment Weekly and Variety respectively ranked Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as Tim Burton's third and fourth-best film.[76][77] Conversely, Time Out named the film to be the worst adaptation of a Roald Dahl book, elaborating "there’s something so horribly garish about Burton’s film that you can’t help feeling a little queasy afterwards."[78]

Awards

Award Category Recipient Result Ref
Academy Awards Best Costume Design Gabriella Pescucci Nominated [79]
British Academy Film Awards Best Production Design Alex McDowell Nominated [80]
Best Costume Design Gabriella Pescucci Nominated
Best Makeup and Hair Peter Owen and Ivana Primorac Nominated
Best Special Visual Effects Nick Davis, Jon Thum, Chas Jarrett, and Joss Williams Nominated
British Academy Children's Awards BAFTA Kids' Vote for Best Film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Won [81]
Golden Globe Awards Best Actor – Musical or Comedy Johnny Depp Nominated [82]
Grammy Awards Best Song Written for Visual Media John August and Danny Elfman for "Wonka's Welcome Song" Nominated [83]
People's Choice Awards Favorite Family Movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Won [84]
Favorite Motion Picture Actor Johnny Depp Won
Saturn Awards Best Fantasy Film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Nominated [85]
Best Performance by a Younger Actor Freddie Highmore Nominated
Best Costume Design Gabriella Pescucci Nominated
Best Music Danny Elfman Nominated

See also

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