“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” 23 November 2005 (2005), DVD. Willie Wonka done by Johnny Depp in this Tim Burton extravaganza. It got bad reviews and my mom and sister didn’t like it, but Bronwen, Bronwen and I really did. I miss a couple of the Oompa-Loompa songs from the old Gene Wilder piece but otherwise liked this. Depp is truly creepy as a Wonka merging Michael Jackson/Mr Roberts/Carol Channing (my sister’s suggestion) and the lyrics of all the songs are from Dahl. I wasn’t happy with the Oompa-Loompa as one cloned figure (ah, the marvels of technology), nor was I thrilled with the inane justification of massive exploitation of workers, and I missed the deranged terrifying boat-acid trip of the first movie, but this was a really fun and funny film and we just plain enjoyed it in a good laugh-out-loud way. I think it may even have been better for the adults than the kids