Good movie, but less faithful to the book then you'd expect
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was a good movie, but it is not faithful to the book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Davis Seltzer(who I suspect wrote the shooting script, because R.D. said that he didn't like the final script), did too many changes to it. For instance, the Oompa-Loompas sang really bad songs "Oompa-Loompa do-pe-de-dah, I got another puzzle for you", was one of them. If you want to see movie versions of other Dahl books, you should see the way-more faithful movie versions of James and the Giant Peach and Matilda. Although this is a good family film(in line with Star Wars and E.T.), it is a bad adaption of a great, fun book.
- Grand Admiral Murphy
- Apr 18, 2000