Not a bad adaptation of the Roald Dahl book, but when the Nic Roeg film exists then this one doesn't need to. The setting is swapped to America, worse luck, and things feel different for the first third. Once we move to the hotel, however, this becomes a lesser, almost shot-for-shot reprise of the Roeg movie but of a much lesser quality; the only notable thing is that the original book ending is kept. The kids are okay here, the CGI is average, but the adult actors fail to give convincing performances, and Anne Hathaway in particular is hammily horrible.
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