"Nobody ever goes in...and nobody ever comes out."

We went and saw "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" last night. I enjoyed it. I've always been a fan of the "Will Wonka" film with Gene Wilder and I went into this latest with the expectations from that one.

The story from this movie follows that of the book. As such, there are certain things different in this one than the old movie. In this one, Veruca meets her 'fate' like she does in the book. Also, Violet brings her mother instead of her father, and Mike brings his father instead of his mother. Other than that, it was mostly the same. There were some things added in about Wonka's childhood that seemed added in to make the movie a bit longer.

The production design was amazing...though I think the 'chocolate room' in the earlier film was a little neater than the one in this one. The 'inventing room' in this newer film was a lot more detailed and interesting than the one in the earlier version I thought.

The songs were different in this one too. The ones from the early movie are classics, of course, but the ones in this film were pretty good too. It was hard to hear some of the lyrics due to the music, unfortunately, but from what I heard they were pretty funny and catchy.

I thought Johnny Depp did a good job as Wonka. His voice and mannerisms were pretty distinct. A few times he did or said some things that made me laugh out loud and that's always nice.

All in all, a good movie. A movie worthy of the earlier work.