I'm going to make a series of posts praising parts of movies that aren't critically liked, I might make this a regular thing, tell me your opnion on these points
So I am part of the later camp that thinks that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is better than the Willie Wonka version. And in today's day and age I think there are some moments that aged pretty well.
1. Burton's gothic art style fits the book more, the orginal book is about a bunch of brats vying for a trip to Wonka's castle so it would make sense that the world in this movie is colorful with a dark undertone like the kids.
2. It gives more context to Wonka's character, while mystery is good and all Wonka should really be fleshed more as a character, Gene Wilder is always memed as a sort of phycopath but this Wonka I belive is superior due to his more fleshed out characterization.
3. Charlie's family is also more deeper, while we dont see them much we do see distinct characters who seem relaistic in a world like this. Uncle Phil having a personal reason to visit the factory also gives him much more character debt.
4. The kids are more fleshed out and in a detail in the end, their punishments are proportional to their behaviors. TV gets stretched for cheating the system for everyone else, Veruca's dad grows a backbone from her bratty behavior, Augustus only gets his clothes dirty due to him being more a victim of stupidity rather than malice, and Violet is the sole one to gain any benefit from her predicament much to her mother's dismay as she was the one who gets punished.
5. It predicted Karens