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Kai Lucas Zachary

I think it's incredibly difficult to compare these films directly. While they're technically telling the same story, people are fond of one over the other for very different reason. Gene Wilder is obviously a big reason for the first, along with the intense sense of the mystery and the type of theater work and staging and set design and the special effects and make up / costume design in the first. This version, Johnny Depp does his own take, and it was meant for a totally different audience. It's much truer to the book, but the music especially is a turn of for some people (as is Depp) himself. I personally am fond of this Tim Burton version more, but that could very well just because I happened to live in a time where I read the book in school right before this film came out in theaters. I can totally respect the reasons why others prefer the "original" - but, like I originally said, I think that in some ways they're so different that it's unfair to compare them. I really appreciate you pointing out aspects you liked in this one vs the other without always making a blanket statement that one is better or worse in total.

Barak Reeves

The original author did not like the first one due to a lot of changes they made, and he felt he did not have a voice about his work. But when they wanted to do a reboot, he had died, and his wife would not approve. In the end it was the scene at the end when Willy as at the dentist and Charlie Saw all of the newspaper clippings (Something his own family did) that convinced her to let Tim Burton start filming. She says Tim's is a better movie.