The Amazing Chocolateer!

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Wowee wow wow wow.

Visually, just stunning. I wish I had been able to see this as a kid. It would have influenced everything I ever imagined from here on out.

Emotionally, Freddie Highmore simply has to look sad and I'm a bucket (ha!) of tears. (Sorry.)

Comically, Katy and I were cracking up pretty much any time Johnny Depp, Oompa loompas, squirrels, and puppets (preferably charred) were on screen.

I didn't see any Willy Wonka/Michael Jackson similarities. For one, Willy Wonka looked like a human. Also, he didn't like touching children. Also, he sounded less like a woman and more like a stoned Dr. Evil.

People who see the supposed "similarities" focus too much on stupid media circus crap, anyway, (that's my theory, at least) and they are unable to separate two completely separate things for some inexplicable reason.

I guess you have to be of a certain disposition to find Johnny's strange character choice hi-larious, and Katy and I fit the bill. We might have been the only people in the theater laughing, but we were pretty much doing it non-stop.

Especially with those damn puppets. Probably one of my favorite movie moments ever. EVER.

In short, I loved it. Loved loved loved loved it.

Of course, this is coming from someone who has never read the book (instead, I read Matilda and James and the Giant Peach about five times each), and who hates (hates!) the original movie.

Viva le Burton!

ETA: Oh, and!!!!!!!!!!! Futurama is coming back!!!!!!!!!!! As a direct-to-DVD movie, but still!!!!!!!!!!!! Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!! And possible "sequels"!!!!!!!!!! Much love!!!!!!!!!!!