>>68850650Worse than the depp movie in every aspect. Charlie and the chocolate factory is tim Burton's masterpiece and it only got shafted because boomers can't tell when a movie is actually good. Gene wilder doesn't have any of the slightly fucked up autism from the book, the songs mostly suck, it's slow and lacking characterization, and doesn't even keep the other kids intact. Roald Dahl wrote weird edgy stories for weird kids and the gene wilder movie has none of that soul. Charlie and the chocolate factory on the other hand sticks to the book as closely as you realistically could and maintained a significantly more distinct personality because of it. The songs are drastically better, the kids have their smarmy shit headedness intact that makes you actually feel like they deserve what happens to them, and the set design is so good that it holds up perfectly to this very day. Anyone who genuinely prefers willy Wonka to Charlie has not seen movies. Even for it's time Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was considered a relatively bland studio musical, and not a particularly good one.
