Better edit for the film

Here's a good trailer for the movie at the time of its' release.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9Cby33ZR98

I agree. Whenever I play it for my kids I start the movie at the factory. Getting to the factory sooner would’ve been better. Maybe they could’ve kept some of the boring shit from the beginning as flashbacks later on if they really wanted it in there.

It does take 40 minutes to get to the factor and 50 to enter the chocolate room. I'll have to check the Johnny Depp version to see how long it takes to get to this point. I too thought 'this is dragging on a bit.'

I would have at least pulled the gag about a woman refusing to let go of her chocolate in the ransom case, and the auction. Too much padding.

Why don't they just cut to the end credits? That will make it way shorter and then you can go back to your TikTok videos.

I think it would have felt much better paced if the terribly boring "Cheer Up Charlie" song was taken out. That whole scene with the song and talking to his mother just puts the whole movie into a dreary blah mood. Who wants to hear that song and see some kid wander around on a street ?

I'd cut all the songs -- yes, even The Candy Man -- from the start of the film. They aren't great songs anyway and they slow the film down.

Also, it might have been smarter writing to have the musical numbers happen only inside the factory, thus emphasising the strangeness of that place as contrasted with boring, normal reality where people aren't in the habit of bursting into song.