Wearing a top hat and red velvet coat, speaking in a light effeminate voice of extreme fussiness, [Wonka] looks and acts like a 19th-century vampire who is halfway through a sex change.
From Entertainment Weekly's review.
Simply for my own amusement, I challenge anyone to drabble that.
Reading further, I am intrigued. This is the second review I have read to mention Dr. Freud.
The earlier film was driven, of course, by the creepy cuddliness of Gene Wilder — the smile of cozy dimpled warmth giving way to hysteria, then snapping back. Burton and Depp push Wonka further, making him into a sinister enigma, and in flashbacks to his childhood we see how he got that way: His father (Christopher Lee), a dentist, treated candy like poison and forced the boy to wear a torture chamber of a head brace. If that all sounds a bit Freudian, what it does is turn the entire film into a fairy-tale meditation on our relationship to candy: why it's wrong to love it too little, or too much.
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Another review of CatCF. It cheered me up, hence, I share.
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