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Charlie & The Chocolate Factory | 
 enlarge | Artist: Danny Elfman
Label: Warner Bros. Pictures
Category: Music
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Rating:  88 reviews
Sales Rank: 3576
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 72264
UPC: 012569722644
EAN: 0012569722644
ASIN: B0009T2S0W
Release Date: July 12, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | Wonka's Welcome Song | | • | Augustus Gloop | | • | Violet Beauregarde | | • | Veruca Salt | | • | Mike Teavee | | • | Main Titles | | • | Wonka's First Shop | | • | The Indian Palace | | • | Wheels in Motion | | • | Charlie's Birthday Bar | | • | The Golden Ticket/Factory | | • | Chocolate Explorers | | • | Loompa Land | | • | The Boat Arrives | | • | The River Cruise | | • | First Candy | | • | Up and Out | | • | The River Cruise - Part 2 | | • | Charlie Declines | | • | Finale | | • | End Credit Suite |
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Amazon.com
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
Description
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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 83 more reviews...
 Gives you what you want and a little less? August 27, 2008
Has all the popular songs that are in the movie. However what left us a little disappointed was that the remaining dozen or so songs on the CD are all instrumentals. We bought this for our 5 year old who loved the movie and enjoys singing along with the songs. The first 8 songs are great with the catchy choruses and funny rhyming phrases but the remaining 12 are NOT chocolately delicious.
 Good Movie and Music July 27, 2008
We loved the music and the movie, so of you too you will buy the disc.
 Great Soundrtrack of the Family February 18, 2008
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.
Love it June 26, 2007
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.
Chocolate Explorers January 11, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
-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 into the score and things start off with the Main Titles. Elfman is the best in the business when it comes to Main Titles but the one here isn't his best. It changes tempos far too often and just feels all over the place. One second it's sweet and heartwarming, the next it's fast and loud. The next couple of tracks are classic Elfman magic that makes you wonder how the red headed composer is able to write music so good it does things to you when you listen to it.
-My personal favorites are "Golden Ticket/Factory", "Chocolate Explorers", "The Boat Arrives", "River Cruise" and off course the highlight of the album, "River Cruise Pt. 2". The other tracks are great but those are the ones that I can't live without.
-When it comes to songs Elfman knows how to write great ones as he has proven before in the past, unfortunately the songs here aren't exactly his best. Apart from "Veruca Salt" there was never really any song that I really liked. It was just a little too weird and off putting for me to fully get into. The reason why he used the weird little kazoo like voices was because the oompa loompas are small which works great in theory, but it comes off kinda of annoying in the movie.
-For me the best part of an album is the unused or alternate tracks. In this we get the fantastic "River Cruise Pt. 2". I don't know why it didn't make it in the movie, but my guess is editing changes at the last second. It's a shame because it's my favorite piece of music on the whole album. The choir that comes in at the 19 second mark and the high string that Elfman throws in and out is a great pleasure to listen to. Don't know why it didn't make it into the movie, but I'm guessing it had something to do with editing changes at the last minute
-It's not Elfman's strongest outing, but it's a very enjoyable one that was truly one of the best of 2005.
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