Wonka
Came
out; 2023
Time;
1 hours 56 Minutes
Watched:
Max
Rated:
PG for some violence, mild language and thematic elements
IMDB
Rating; 6.9/10
Rotten
Tomatoes:
Tomato
Meter 82%
Popcorn
Meter 90%
Caution;
Spoiler Alert
Staring;
Timothee
Chalamet as Willy Wonka
Tom
Davis as Bleacher
Olivia
Colman as Mrs. Scrubitt
Calah
Lane as Noodle
Paterson
Joseph as Slugworth
Matt
Lucas as Prodnose
Mathew
Baynton as Fickelgruber
Freya
Parker as Miss Bon-Bon
Keegan-Michael
Key as Chief of Police
Jim
Carter as Abacus Crunch
Rakhee
Thakrar as Lottie Bell
Story
Line;
Willy
Wonka is the mastermind behind some of the most delicious and
innovative chocolate creations the world has ever seen. But before
shaking up the chocolate industry and making a name for himself as a
confectionery genius, the ambitious young creator had to defy all
odds. As a result, Willy transformed his wildest dreams into reality
with a bold vision, determination, and unexpected help from new
friends. After all, hard work and a dash of magic can make anything
happen. Because, as Willy already knows, it only takes a dream to
make a difference
Thoughts:
I
had honestly forgotten about this movie until they played all 3 in a
row on TV. We decided to watch it uncut instead.
Prequels
don't always work, story lines get changed, things don't add up or
the characters are odd. This was a well put together movie with
everything making sense.
It
was a fun little movie that had the right amount of singing and a
happy ending
CAUTION;
Spoiler Alert
During
the late nineteenth century, young William "Willy" Wonka is
an American amateur chef, magician, scientist, and traveler who loves
chocolate and aspires to open his own candy store in the United
Kingdom after the death of his mother. A ship sails towards land and
a young Willy Wonka stands on top of a mast, singing a song and when
the ship ports in dock, Willy continues singing, but gives away all
but one of his silver coins, the last of which he drops down a drain.
Willy then goes to look at a store he plans to buy. That evening,
Willy gets everything out and plans to sleep on a park bench, until a
dog called "Tiddles" comes and sniffs his leg and a man
tells him to come and spend the night in his sanctuary.
Once
inside Scrubbit and Bleacher's sanctuary, Willy heads for the
fireplace to warm up. Mrs. Scrubit then shows Willy a contract to
sign, and a girl who works there called Noodle tells him to read the
contract carefully, but Willy just instantly signs. Mrs. Scrubit then
tells Noodle off and throws her in a coup. The next day, Willy heads
back to the Gourmet store and tells the public about his new flying
chocolates and a trio of Chocolatiers see this and call the police,
before going out and tasting some. After negatively criticizing
Willy, the three start floating around and the police arrive. Willy
asks the Chief of police for some money for his rent and he hands him
a silver coin. Unfortunately however, Willy didn't read the contract
properly and that coin wouldn't be enough and Mrs. Scrubit tells
Willy he will have to work off the rest of the debt. Willy then goes
down the laundry Shute and meets a bunch of other people who suffered
similar fates to him.
That night, Noodle comes into Willy's
room and tells him she has never tasted chocolate, so Willy makes her
a chocolate treat, using his chocolate making machine and tells her
the story of his childhood. His mother used to make great chocolate
and they had planned to take over the store in the Gourmet store that
Willy wanted, but she had died soon after and he had never found out
her secret. Noodle takes a bite of the chocolate and enjoys it, but
is saddened by the fact that she won't be able to have more, so Willy
offers her a lifetime supply of chocolate and Noodle tells Willy one
way they can escape. Meanwhile, underneath the cathedral, the Chief
of police is meeting with the Chocolatiers and through a song,
encourage him to eliminate the competition and get rid of Wonka, by
offering him 1,000 boxes of chocolate and he agrees.
The next
morning, Willy and Noodle attempt to get Scrubit and Bleacher to fall
in love and Willy goes back down the Shute, and reveals an invention,
which will do everyone's work for them and he and Noodle escape. Now
on the streets, Willy tells Noodle about a "little orange man
with green hair" who keeps stealing his chocolates, but Noodle
doesn't believe him. Then Willy says that he needs to make more
chocolate and he needs the milk from a giraffe to make it. At the
zoo, they knock out the security guard by giving him a chocolate that
goes through all sorts of alcoholic beverages and the two sneak in.
Once inside the zoo, it is revealed that Willy cannot read as he
opens the door to the tiger instead of the giraffe. Noodle opens the
door to the giraffe and whilst Willy milks the giraffe Noodle tells
him that her name isn't really Noodle, only assumed to be, when
Scrubit found her in a basket, with an "N" on her necklace.
On the way out of the zoo, Willy grabs hold of some balloons and
floats to the roof of the Gourmet store, where he and Noodle sing and
dance, but the police see them. The Chief of police has a
conversation with Willy and the two sneak back into the
workshop.
One of them tells the story of how the Trio have
been in cahoots for a long time and he used to work for one
(Slugworth), but got fired for snooping around and Willy tells them
he is a chocolate maker and his dream of owning the store. That
night, Willy passes Noodle her chocolates and the gang have a
conversation and agree to help Willy with his dream.
The
following day, Willy tries out all sorts of new delicious
confectionery on the members of the public and the police follow him
on bicycles. Eventually, the Chief of police finds a chocolate
wrapper and figures out that he has been escaping through the drains
in the road. That night, the Chief of police asks the Chocolatiers
for more chocolate and they agree. Meanwhile in Willy's room, the
little orange man comes back, but gets caught in a trap Willy had set
and wakes him up. The man tells Willy that he is an Oompa Loompa
named Lofty and he is disappointed at Willy for stealing cacao beans
from Loompaland Land and that he will not go away until he has all
the chocolate he requires, before hitting Willy with a frying pan and
escaping with the chocolate.
The next day, the friends showed
Willy the keys to the store and open it up. At first it was a bit of
a dump, but they soon got it all up to scratch. The grand opening
went really well, until it is revealed that someone had sabotaged the
treats and the customers all riot, burning down the store. The others
leave Willy alone in the rubble and the three Chocolatiers arrive
with a brief case full of money, which they will give to his friends,
if he leaves town for good and Willy agrees. Later that evening,
Willy arrives at the docks, shakes Slugworth's hand and sets sail.
Also on board was the Oompa Loompa and he tells Willy he won't leave
him alone until he gets the chocolate and Willy notices an "A"
mark on his hand and realises that Noodle is in great danger. Willy
and the Oompa Loompa go to see the captain, but see dynamite strapped
to the wheel instead. The duo jump off and the Chocolatiers just
stand and laugh as the boat explodes. Slugworth then goes to give
Scrubit the money.
The next morning, Mrs Scrubit and Mr.
Bleacher let everyone go with their money, but tells Noodle that her
money was to keep her there and Mrs Scrubit grabs her and throws her
in the coup again. Suddenly, Willy appears and tells Noodle that they
are going to go and steal the ledger and break Noodle free from the
coup. At the cathedral, Noodle is disguised as a nun and asks the
father for some chocolate, but he refuses. Willy and a couple others
go to the zoo, steal the giraffe and let it loose in the cathedral.
The father phones the "zoo", which is Willy and his friends
on the other side of the phone and tells them to get rid of it. They
do so, just before the Baron's funeral. After hearing what had
happened, Slugworth calls the father and rushes to the cathedral.
Meanwhile, Willy and Noodle had entered underneath the cathedral and
started searching for the book. Finally, Noodle opened a trap door in
the wall and got out the book. Unfortunately, Slugworth and his
companions got them and throw them in a giant chocolate mixer.
Slugworth then tells them that the "N" is actually a "Z",
which belonged to his brother "Zebedee" and told Noodle
that he told her mother she would be in good hands, but instead,
threw her down the laundry Shute and told her mother that she had
died, before locking the door, taking Willys chocolates for the Oompa
Loompa, eating them and leaving Willy and Noodle to drown in a river
of chocolate. Noodle however, had a plan to let the chocolate lift
them and they could bang on the glass. Unfortunately, no one would
help them and the two went under.
Fortunately, the Oompa
Loompa came to the rescue and the duo got out with the book. The now
oversized Chief of police got out of the car and is told that he as
well as the Chocolatiers are under arrest. The Chocolatiers then
start floating again and Willy reveals that the chocolate they had
eaten were actually the flying chocolates from earlier on. Slugworth
claims they'll be back before floating away.
Willy then
finally finds out his mother's secret that it is the people you share
the chocolate with that matters, not the chocolate itself, after
receiving a message from his mother's spirit. Willy shares a piece
with everyone, before telling Noodle that her mother lives at the
local library and the two get reacquainted. Willy shows the Oompa
Loompa to an old castle, which he plans to make into a factory, with
the Oompa Loompa becoming Chief chocolate taster.
As the
credits roll, Lofty the Oompa Loompa reveals what happened to
everyone, including Scrubbit and Bleacher, who were under arrest, but
tried to get out of it by eating the poisoned chocolates and the two
have one last kiss.
