There is a young family that currently lives in a beautiful piece of Punta Gorda real estate, the Bakers. Every Sunday night, they all get together on bean bags in their living room to enjoy quality time together, along with some freshly popped popcorn and soda. Every week, a different member of the house gets to pick a movie for everyone to watch. While the twins usually choose a child’s film, mom prefers thrillers, and dad likes his true-to-life dramas. Regardless, they are all quality films that deep down, everyone enjoys.

Last week, the two 14-year-old boys, Greg and Craig, chose to watch the modern remake of Charlie & the Chocolate Factory in their home for sale in Punta Gorda. We begin with five golden tickets, like five lucky strikes of lighting, ready to strike without notice at any part of the map. Rather than a sequel modeled after Roald Dahl’s Great Glass Elevator, Tim Burton remade director Mel Stuart’s 1971 classic starring Gene Wilder, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.

Charlie & the Chocolate Factory stars Johnny Depp as the eccentric candy man. Willy descends Wankamania upon the world by hiding five Golden Tickets inside candy bars that grant entrance into his top-secret factory. The theme is simple, family values and honesty. While mom and dad think comparing Burton’s Wonka to 1971’s fantasy film is a disappointment, Greg and Craig still love the movie.

Proud the locals of Jugenheim were when Augustus Gloop thrust the city into prominence, becoming the pride of Western Germany, after finding the first Golden Ticket. Other lucky winners include the ever-whining Veruca Salt, along with television and video obsessed techi, Mike Teevee. Violet Beauregarde is an obnoxious gum chewer whose skin eventually turns violet. Underprivileged, but lucky last ticket-finder Charlie Bucket, escorted by his Grandpa Joe, is the last man standing as the other children are picked off in a familiar fashion.

Draped in a purple top hat, giant sunglasses, and Chiclet teeth, Depp is comical in the slightly different Burtonesque structure. The gothic-styled candy man certainly doesn’t have the clever one-liners that Wilder possesses when talking to the mumbling children. Incorporating a childhood for Willy, Depp reunites with his dad. In fact, Wonka has trouble pronouncing the word “parent” prior to the reunion. Burton’s greatest alteration is Violet’s mother, a hilarious silicone queen possessing a plastic tan and face.

Fortunately for the grown-ups, mom gets to pick next week’s flick. She chooses to watch Poltergeist in her Punta Gorda luxury home. Not unlike The Shining, 1982’s Poltergeist revolves around a home built on top of a cemetery. Spielberg helped produce, while Tobe Hooper directed the supernatural tale of a possessed house. Communicating through a television’s static, the “TV People” kidnap a little girl. “They’re here,” she warns before it’s too late. A team of parapsychologists is called in to reunite the family. The script’s evil phenomenon cleverly revolves around folks’ real fears, such as a clown doll and an enormous tree outside a child’s window. As the script’s exorcist explains, “It knows what scares you.”

 

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