I saw Taladega (I know I spelled that incorrectly) Nights, that was really funny. The children got on my nerves, but, I did laugh a lot, so, that's something.

I saw that someone didn't like the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I think any time you compare a remake to the "original", you will probably be disappointed, just because that's the one you saw first and if you loved it (which a lot of people did and a lot of people didn't...including the author, Roald Dahl - he hated it!), it's hard to accept a different version. But, just from reading the book first, the newer version is far truer to the author's vision. I didn't really care one way or the other for the added insight to Wonka's past, that's mostly filler from what I have heard, as the book is short. But, I think I actually enjoyed this version better. Johnny Depp is more like Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka, and, I also liked that the newer version is more about Charlie than anyone else. And, he is, after all, the hero of the story.

Just as a disclaimer, though, I absolutely love both film versions.