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Originally Posted by gag  It’s like remake of Willy wonka, it was going to be hard to beat the original since everyone grew up with the film and loved it, remake had mixed reviews but a lot despised it, But Roald Dahl hated the original with a passion, and the remake was closer to the book than the |
That's an important distinction. Roald Dahl's screenplay for Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory – at least how it's presented in the film – is a very loose adaptation of his book.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is much more faithful to the source material, benefits from excellent visual effects, has some very funny quirky humour, and has some really good songs.
When I saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the cinema, I didn't like it at all. I read the book that evening and went back to the cinema the next day to watch it again and thought it was excellent – it's amazing what a difference reading the novel made.