Wonkers!

I'm so pleased that today I managed to actually have a lay in bed until 9 am, thats a new trick for me as usually I'm up early even at the weekends... so to stay in bed a little longer was quite a novel treat.

Apart from a quick trip to the super market to pick up the "essentials" for the week the only other stuff we do is start to re-skin Phils blog, and watch the Grand Prix, which was only exciting for the first 10 minutes when someone crashed!

We then head off to the cinema yet again as Charlie and The Chocolate Factory is on and I really want to see it, I guess that is the big kid in me :) As expected when we arrive the cinema is chockablock, but since we'd reserved our seats it wasn't really a problem. So loaded up with yet more popcorn and pop we trundle off and get comfy in our places amid a sea of mainly adults.

The film it's self was certainly no disappointment, and I have to say Johnny Depp does a great job at playing the slightly deranged Willy Wonka. In parts the film was just well, weird! But it was nice that it stuck to the story well and the kid actors did good jobs too at being annoying brats (though I expect it wasn't too much of a far cry from normality for the little darlings!). What was also good about it was the fact that the story writers had obviously had a good think about who their target audience was to be, and had mixed in a good dose of off the cuff comments that would probably only be appreciated by those of slightly less tender years and previous Gene Wilder Wonka fans. I gotta say though that the Oompa Loompa's weren't quite up to par with the 1971 orange munchkins, but still not bad for CGI generated ones.

It's all good stuff and if you're in the mood to rekindle some childhood memories I'd suggest you go see the film, even if its just for curiosity's sake!

Posted by Abi on the July 31, 2005 10:29 PM