Willy Wonky
I hate to say it, but Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka just didn’t work for me. It’s a painful thing to say about an actor whose work you’ve always admired and respected. A lot of it might have been the hair and makeup, but the squeaky voice was definitely a big factor. On the plus side, the facial expressions killed.
Overall, even though I thought the designs and most of the kids, and Charlie’s family were better than the classic Willy Wonka flick, it didn’t have the same sense of magic. It did convince me I really need to get off my duff and find a copy of the book. It is one of the only Roald Dahl books I haven’t read. He was a favorite author of mine when I was young, and The Witches was, in a way, the book that first inspired me to write when I was seven, almost a year before I started writing seriously .