'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' Review at Relevant

For those poor, misguided souls who keep up with such things, my latest review, which tackles Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, is up at Relevant. I've been fairly vocal about my (lack of) feelings towards Tim Burton's latest neo-expressionist clunker, but read the whole thing to see why I said this:

Despite its gloriously realized, meticulously detailed world, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is marked by thin characters, stolid pacing and trite sentimentality. It’s all flashy color and puffed-up fluff, a cinematic cotton candy lacking in any real substance.