“Charlie+CF” is number one at the box office again this weekend. And at this very second, my six-year-old is sitting quietly in our family room, listening to the soundtrack CD. (For those of you who don’t know, the idea of a six-year-old boy sitting and listening to music is quite a bit more startling than Everlasting Gobstoppers.) Danny Elfman does a fantastic job of creating wonderful, catchy songs out of Roald Dahl’s creepy lyrics, which is all the more laudable when you realize the spectre of the first film’s music is always right over his shoulder.

And the Veruca Salt song is easily the prettiest song ever about a young girl being sent down a garbage chute.