The Village Voice, July 13th, 2005
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
Directed by Tim Burton
Warner Bros., opens July 15
STRANGER WITH CANDY
A decent Factory:Tim Burton's enjoyable Roald Dahl redux delves into Wonka weirdness
With the Michael Jackson trial over, it's a shade less discomfiting to watch Johnny Depp, as reclusive candy wizard Willy Wonka, escort five children and their guardians through his factory-fortress in Tim Burton's enjoyable Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Depp 's cadences occasionally echo his double-W predecessor Gene Wilder's, but his eccentricity is less florid. Hysterically awkward in his Jacko...
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