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Title: A morass of ego.
Review: A lousy, unengaging script. Characters that go nowhere, and/or disappear for great lengths of the film. Trite flashbacks. Bad one-liners...To those who say "it's just supposed to be about nonsense", I respond, that even a film that is supposedly about nonsense needs to have structure and an engaging screenplay to succeed as a film. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory cannot hide behind its overweening fantastical settings; the screenwriter and director are LAAAAZY. Then again, Burton has never been strong on scripts -- look at his Batman films (plot holes ALL over the place) for some perfect examples. It blows me away that a man approaching 50, and a highly respected director, does not understand these things.
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