Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Movie Review

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 

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• Director: Tim Burton
• Writers: Roald Dahl (book), John August (screenplay)
• Stars: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore and David Kelly | See full cast and crew

Movie Review :

"Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" is a delightful family musical based on the children's novel "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl. The movie stars Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka, the highly eccentric candy manufacturer and owner of a huge whimsical mysterious chocolate factory, as well as Peter Ostrum as Charlie, a very poor boy who ends up inheriting the factory and Jack Albertson as his peppy old Grandpa Joe.

The movie begins in a small European town, where Charlie lives in an old shack with his mother and four bedridden grandparents. Charlie loves chocolate and passes by Willy Wonka's factory every day, following his paper route. Charlie longs to visit the factory, but the gates are locked.

One day, Mr. Wonka decides to let five lucky children visit his factory by hiding five golden tickets inside random Wonka bars. In addition, the winners will win a lifetime supply of chocolate. This starts a worldwide frenzy to find the golden tickets. Augustus Gloop, a very fat boy, finds the first ticket. Vercua Salt, an extremely spoiled girl, finds the second after her rich father, who owns and operates a nut shelling factory, makes his workers open wonka bars for a week. Violet Beauregarde, a compulsive gum chewer, finds the third ticket and Mike Teavee, an avid TV viewer and lover of Westerns, finds the fourth. After nearly all the world's Wonka bars have been consumed, it is announced that a millionaire from Paraguay won the fifth Golden ticket, but this turns out to be a hoax. Charlie, after finding some money on the street, buys two Wonka bars and finds the last golden ticket inside the second one, much to his delight.

The next day is the big day in which Mr. Wonka opens the doors to his factory and lets the golden ticket winners inside, each along with one guardian. Charlie's grandpa Joe accompanies him. Mr. Wonka takes them through dozens of strange rooms, including the Chocolate Room, in which nearly everything is edible, the Inventing Room, and the Television Chocolate Room. One by one, each of the children except Charlie suffers an unpleasant fate, forcing them to leave the tour. For instance, Augustus ends up being sucked up a pipe in the Chocolate Room, Violet gets transformed into a giant blueberry, Veruca and her father both up in the garbage shoot, and Mike gets shrunk to thumb-size.

Once only Charlie and his grandfather are remaining, Mr. Wonka tells them to go home. He then tells Charlie and Grandpa Joe, much to their disappoitment, that they won't be getting the lifetime supply of chocolate because they broke the rules when they stole some fizzy lifting drinks. This turns out to be merely a test of Charlie's loyalty, however, which he passes as soon as he returns the everlasting gobstopper which Mr. Wonka had given him. Mr. Wonka then proudly takes Charlie and his grandfather aboard the Great Glass Wonkavator, which shoots out of the factory through the roof and flies through the air. He then tells Charlie that he's giving him the factory and invites his family to live there with him.

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