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I was similarly disappointed. Not that the movie was bad, there were some great things in it. But it wasn't as good as it needed to be to justify its existence. The original version was excellent. This, at best, was equally good. So why make it? Burton didn't seem to work very hard to make it extraordinary. For example, the factory itself was really unremarkable. It just didn't have that Burton stamp on it that I was hoping for.
Like CP, I though the music was fantastic, and the Oompa Loopmas were great. Some individual moments stood out as very good, but on a whole I thought the movie fell flat. Big Fish is a good comparison. Technically a good movie, but I left feeling like there should have been something more to it.
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