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Charlie & The Chocolate Factory Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: Gives you what you want and a little less?
Comment: Has all the popular songs that are in the movie. However what left us a little disappointed was that the remaining dozen or so songs on the CD are all instrumentals. We bought this for our 5 year old who loved the movie and enjoys singing along with the songs. The first 8 songs are great with the catchy choruses and funny rhyming phrases but the remaining 12 are NOT chocolately delicious.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Good Movie and Music
Comment: We loved the music and the movie, so of you too you will buy the disc.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Soundrtrack of the Family
Comment: Our family has really enjoyed this CD as well as the movie. Danny Elfman does a great job again with his scoring of this rendition of a family classic.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Love it
Comment: I saw the movie and loved the soundtrack so I decided to purchase it. I actually listen to it in my car on the way home from work and it's amazing how such funny songs can lift me.

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Summary: Chocolate Explorers
Comment: -A Tim Burton movie without a Danny Elfman score would be like a Jerry Bruckheimer movie without a Media Venture *or Remote Control* score. They just go together so beautifully that you'd think it was their destiny to be together. Elfman uses a lot of his patent techniques with the movie and he uses them well to create a very well done score to a very well made movie.

-The album starts of with the songs, but I don't care for them so I don't really waste time on it. After those we get into the score and things start off with the Main Titles. Elfman is the best in the business when it comes to Main Titles but the one here isn't his best. It changes tempos far too often and just feels all over the place. One second it's sweet and heartwarming, the next it's fast and loud. The next couple of tracks are classic Elfman magic that makes you wonder how the red headed composer is able to write music so good it does things to you when you listen to it.

-My personal favorites are "Golden Ticket/Factory", "Chocolate Explorers", "The Boat Arrives", "River Cruise" and off course the highlight of the album, "River Cruise Pt. 2". The other tracks are great but those are the ones that I can't live without.

-When it comes to songs Elfman knows how to write great ones as he has proven before in the past, unfortunately the songs here aren't exactly his best. Apart from "Veruca Salt" there was never really any song that I really liked. It was just a little too weird and off putting for me to fully get into. The reason why he used the weird little kazoo like voices was because the oompa loompas are small which works great in theory, but it comes off kinda of annoying in the movie.

-For me the best part of an album is the unused or alternate tracks. In this we get the fantastic "River Cruise Pt. 2". I don't know why it didn't make it in the movie, but my guess is editing changes at the last second. It's a shame because it's my favorite piece of music on the whole album. The choir that comes in at the 19 second mark and the high string that Elfman throws in and out is a great pleasure to listen to. Don't know why it didn't make it into the movie, but I'm guessing it had something to do with editing changes at the last minute

-It's not Elfman's strongest outing, but it's a very enjoyable one that was truly one of the best of 2005.

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