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Title: One Oompa-Loompa
Review: While watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory I kept wondering why there was only one Oompa-Loompa, sometimes made into several using what looked like 1960s trick photography. Tim Burton's other effects were good, as usual. Depp's acting was all right - he always goes for something original and he usually succeeds - one of the all-time greats; but Depp did come across as acting in this one, rather than as convincing. Gene Wilder was too hard an act to follow without doing Willy in drag, or something. The reason I would not bother to see this film a second time was the odd decision to use one actor to play all of the Oompa-Loompas (165 of them). What motivated that decision? Every Oompa-Loompa scene (and there are many) got monotonous. I can find other ways to be bored ... for free. I give this film one Oompa-Loompa. That's all Tim Burton gave us.
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