I am usually a purist and prefer the book over the movie. But if you like Roald Dahl, or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, or Johnny Depp, or Tim Burton --
well, the media hype is working on me, that's all I can say.

Click here to see the coolest trailer I've seen in ages.

I never did fall for that old Willie Wonka movie, with Gene Wilder. I loved the bit where Violet Beauregard becomes a blueberry, and where that gluttonous boy gets sucked into the chocolate river -- but the rest of it had a quality that just failed to enchant me; I found it abrasive, somehow. Though I loved the books.

If you like Dahl, do you know he wrote frightening stories for adults?