Since I watched the more modern version of this book-adapted movie before, which happens to be freaking good, I thought I would have hated this older version. But turns out that it is pretty okay. The characters were pretty well-chosen, in the sense that they look apt for their individual unique roles.
However, although I can't blame the relatively poorer effects and technology used due to the time context, I feel that the plot is rather draggy for some parts. For instance, I don't like how the process of finding the golden tickets takes up like half of the entire movie! And it's weird how they add in random scenes of random people going to the crazy large extent in getting the golden tix, (cue: random rich man gets kidnapped and the ransom is the last case of wonka chocs! & the wife was even reluctant to do so, lol much there!) . Ah! I definitely didn't like the part where they replaced the cute squirrels in the novel with large ugly geese! :O
I think this movie has some musical elements intentionally incorporated into it but alas, I almost skipped them all 'cos the songs were aye, droopy and boring and sad.
Rate: 2/5 (but then again, maybe im not in a good position to rate since there might be some bias towards the modern adaptation)
