PunditLisa:
The same thing that bugged the shit out of me in the first movie bugged the shit out of me in the second.
The mom is obviously overworked and stressed trying to support a child and, count 'em, four elderly bed-ridden parents. They are so feeble that they have to be served their dinners in bed.
Yet when Charlie wins the golden ticket, Grandpa, who can’t lift a single finger to help out the overworked parents, suddenly finds all this energy. Not only can he get out of bed and do a little jig, but he can miraculously find the energy to make it through an all-day tour of a chocolate factory.
In both versions, if there was any measure of justice, the mother should have gone on the damn tour and grandpa should have kept his lazy, good for nothing ass in bed where he’s laid for umpteen years.
Geesh.
Okay, I’m done.
Maybe she had to work the day of the factory tour.
Actually, I think both movies and Roald Dahl (Don’t forget, this scene was in the book too) were making a point. Grandpa Joe was fine physically, but spiritually he was crushed.
As was the mother. And the main reason she was spiritually crushed is because she had four able-bodied free-loaders taking up the only decent, warm bed in the house.
For them I offer this four putz salute:
:wally :wally :wally :wally
If Mrs. Bucket had gone to the factory in the first movie, Mr. Wonka would have pelted her with Oompa-Loompa poop* for singing “Cheer Up Charlie”.
*poompa?
