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Charlie & The Chocolate Factory
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0012569722644
Format: Soundtrack
Label: Warner Bros. Pictures
Manufacturer: Warner Bros. Pictures
MPN: 72264
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: July 12, 2005
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
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Editorial Review:
It's as if composer Danny Elfman's fertile relationship with director Tim Burton had been building up to this, their 11th collaboration and perhaps the one that best encapsulates their shared aesthetics: It's hard to think of a subject better suited to the two men than an adaptation of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. For the occasion, Elfman has come up with five actual songs (and sings on them), which reminds one of the 1980s heyday of his old band, Oingo Boingo. The first, "Wonka's Welcome Song" is a demented minute-long blast that evokes 1960s kiddie TV. Each of the other four (which use Dahl's own words) is dedicated to one of the children invited to visit Willy Wonka's factory, and each is done is a different musical style. All are fantastically fun. A personal favorite is the mock-operatic "Mike TeaVee," on which Elfman basically transposes "Bohemian Rhapsody" to a hyperactive cartoon universe. The lovely "Main Titles" acts as a transition into the instrumental part of the score and will be familiar to fans of Elfman's music for Edward Scissorhands, particularly its otherworldly, celestial choral sound. The rest of the tracks simply represent the work of Elfman and his longtime arranger, Steve Bartek, at their best, alternately flamboyant, dreamlike, and suggestive. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
Sweet songs to sing along to all summer along! Featuring ALL the songs from the film including "Wonka's Welcome Song" and 4 Oompa-Loompa songs.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great Soundrtrack of the Family
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.
Rating: - Love it
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.
Rating:  - Chocolate Explorers
-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 ... Read More
Rating: - finally, they get it!!!
finally a soundtrack w the exact music from the movie. imagine that! i am so sick of soundtracks that either change the music (polar express) or leave it off (anastasia). movie companies just do not seem to get that if someone buys the soundtrack it is because they want the music from the movie.
Rating:  - Unbelievable underscore; but undercooked, unmelodic, unmemorable songs
For me, Danny Elfman is among the most brilliant film composers of all time, so it disappointed me that the songs written for this film just couldn't in fairness be said to be good.
One of Elfman's signature moves as a composer is his sparkling ability to shatter the monolithic score into all manner of little skittering shards of runs, switches of time signature or key, etc. He's extremely agile and light on his feet, with a kind of restless energy that seems impossible to satisfy with ... Read More
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