I honestly do not know if I am in the minority when I say this, but I've always really enjoyed how Veruca was portrayed in the 2005 film. She's still very much a spoiled brat, it's just that her brattiness is handled in a completely different way compared to other iterations of the character. Veruca puts on this mask where she is all sweet and kind, but she's actually a little monster. I've seen some reviewers say that she is "too nice," but I've never understood that argument, honestly. There are several scenes where you see that her fake niceness is just for show and the mask completely slips off. In the 1971 movie, Veruca has the common decency to look scared during Violet's transformation into a blueberry. However, in the 2005 movie, it's clearly shown that Veruca is smiling and is shown to be happy at the prospect that Violet could potentially suffer as a blueberry for the rest of her life. Julia Winter's take on Veruca is both nuanced and highly underrated.