Kaffee
04-19-2005, 12:42 AM
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (July 15)
PREMISE The mysterious Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp, bottom, looking like Vogue editor Anna Wintour) leads five lucky golden-ticket-winning kids on a tour of his confection conglomerate.
SLOGAN ''The Factory opens July 2005!''
http://movies.channel.aol.com/movie/main.adp?mid=18648
TRAILER HIGHLIGHTS Sharp-eyed Finding Neverland fans will spot Depp shaking hands with his costar in that movie, Freddie Highmore, who plays Charlie. Gluttonous Augustus Gloop (Philip Wiegratz, top) falls into the chocolate river, prompting a blasé ''Eww'' from the candy man. Wonka tells little Violet (Because of Winn-Dixie's AnnaSophia Robb, middle), ''Chewing gum is really gross/ Chewing gum I hate the most.''
PERCENTAGE OF PLOT SPOILED 15 percent. You already know the story, this trailer assumes, so it doesn't bother to explain anything or even hint at a narrative thread.
VERDICT In place of the 1971 film's slyly subversive choco-topia, this clip promises a much more acid-trippy version, as indicated by the androgynous Depp and the familiarly expressionistic visuals of director Tim Burton. The whole trailer, scored to an irritatingly chirpy jingle (must... stop... singing along), is like the creepy boat-ride sequence from the original film; if Burton offers 106 solid minutes of that, we'll all be driven mad. Trailer grade: C
PREMISE The mysterious Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp, bottom, looking like Vogue editor Anna Wintour) leads five lucky golden-ticket-winning kids on a tour of his confection conglomerate.
SLOGAN ''The Factory opens July 2005!''
http://movies.channel.aol.com/movie/main.adp?mid=18648
TRAILER HIGHLIGHTS Sharp-eyed Finding Neverland fans will spot Depp shaking hands with his costar in that movie, Freddie Highmore, who plays Charlie. Gluttonous Augustus Gloop (Philip Wiegratz, top) falls into the chocolate river, prompting a blasé ''Eww'' from the candy man. Wonka tells little Violet (Because of Winn-Dixie's AnnaSophia Robb, middle), ''Chewing gum is really gross/ Chewing gum I hate the most.''
PERCENTAGE OF PLOT SPOILED 15 percent. You already know the story, this trailer assumes, so it doesn't bother to explain anything or even hint at a narrative thread.
VERDICT In place of the 1971 film's slyly subversive choco-topia, this clip promises a much more acid-trippy version, as indicated by the androgynous Depp and the familiarly expressionistic visuals of director Tim Burton. The whole trailer, scored to an irritatingly chirpy jingle (must... stop... singing along), is like the creepy boat-ride sequence from the original film; if Burton offers 106 solid minutes of that, we'll all be driven mad. Trailer grade: C