Yes, please!

For the most part, no one that wasn't white got a romantic storyline on-camera. There were many examples of "foreign" types providing a funny one-liner or reaction shot or similar, and one from a girl in a wheelchair. Most of these people weren't actually characters in the movie, just props. There just happened to be a (black) sign-language interpreter at hastily-thrown press conference -- see how inclusive they are?? And this one may be more spoilery, but when Jamie Foxx was making a generally pro-gay statement on camera (he's a reporter), he had to end it with a homophobic "joke."

Oy. can you tell me about the George Lopez plotlet? He seemed like an interesting inclusion.

Not much of a plotlet. He works for Ashton Kutcher, and is basically his sounding board. As it turns out, he has a wife and children he loves, but they are only shown, not heard.

OK, I guess Hector Elizondo and Jessica Alba could have been playing Latino/a characters, but they weren't ethnic like Lopez's.

Thank you for taking the hit and seeing the movie, Jesse. I'm glad I didn't.

I would not recommend paying for it.

The earlier version is much better. The plot actually makes sense and it comes down to Charlie making a choice which defines him. In the Burton Wonka we get a needless, over-explainy, here's-10-minutes-of-my-last-therapy-session, backstory. Willy Wonka does not need a conventional finds-a-family plot resolution. He's much more intriguing as the slightly sinister figure portrayed by Gene Wilder.

I gotta go with Hec here. Much as I like Depp's Willy Wonka clapping in glee after the animatronics catch on fire, the ending of the movie was terrible. Not Planet of the Apes terrible, but pretty terrible none the less.

The reviewer at Jezebel hated it, too, Jesse. Sorry you had to sit through it!

I...didn't actually hate watching it. Parts were cute, while I was seeing the terribleness with my thinking-brain.