With dreams of opening a shop in a city renowned for its chocolate, a young and poor Willy Wonka discovers that the industry is run by a cartel of greedy chocolatiers.With dreams of opening a shop in a city renowned for its chocolate, a young and poor Willy Wonka discovers that the industry is run by a cartel of greedy chocolatiers.With dreams of opening a shop in a city renowned for its chocolate, a young and poor Willy Wonka discovers that the industry is run by a cartel of greedy chocolatiers.
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 1 win & 35 nominations total
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn the opening number, Willy Wonka drops a coin down a storm grate. In Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), Charlie Bucket finds a coin in the storm drain which allows him to get his golden ticket.
- GoofsWonka and the Oompa Loompa discuss Wonka's theft of four cocoa beans, when in fact what he stole were four cocoa pods, each of which contains many cocoa beans.
- Quotes
Willy Wonka: May I present, Willy Wonka's wild and wonderful wishy-washy Wonka walker! Please, don't make me say that again.
- Crazy creditsThe end credits feature one more Oompa Loompa song (summarizing what happened to several main characters after the film's end) followed by one more short scene with Mrs. Scrubitt & Bleacher.
- ConnectionsFeatured in AniMat's Crazy Cartoon Cast: Little Orange Nathan Lanes (2021)
- SoundtracksPure Imagination
Written by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley
Arranged by Neil Hannon
Performed by Timothée Chalamet
Featured review
The origin story for Willy Wonka and his chocolate factory.
In other Willy Wonka movies, like the 2005 "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" starring Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka, the chocolate factory is there, up and running. But how did it all come about?
In this movie Timothée Chalamet is Willy Wonka with great dreams of making the best chocolate in the world. The movie starts with him just finishing a 7-year sailing voyage to the seven continents, collecting ingredients so that he could become the best chocolatier in the world.
He encounters many obstacles. Because of his generosity and naivete, soon after he arrives in London he is broke, he needs a place to stay, and falls prey to the worst boarding house in the world, Mrs. Scrubitt's. So most of the first half of the movie is Willy and an assortment of characters basically imprisoned there.
Then things pick up in the second half and we see how Willy negotiates difficulties to eventually get the best of the dishonest band of wealthy men.
The movie is done in musical theater style, with many songs and most of them sung by Chalamet. He has a very pleasant singing voice, if a bit thin sounding with shallow vibrato that seems more of an afterthought. But it is effective enough for this type of production.
My favorite character is Hugh Grant as the tiny orange man with bright green hair. He even sings passably.
My wife and I watched it at home on DVD from our public library, after our usual Saturday evening steak and Bordeaux dinner, a 2019 Chateau Ormes de Pez. And of course chocolate cake for dessert.
In this movie Timothée Chalamet is Willy Wonka with great dreams of making the best chocolate in the world. The movie starts with him just finishing a 7-year sailing voyage to the seven continents, collecting ingredients so that he could become the best chocolatier in the world.
He encounters many obstacles. Because of his generosity and naivete, soon after he arrives in London he is broke, he needs a place to stay, and falls prey to the worst boarding house in the world, Mrs. Scrubitt's. So most of the first half of the movie is Willy and an assortment of characters basically imprisoned there.
Then things pick up in the second half and we see how Willy negotiates difficulties to eventually get the best of the dishonest band of wealthy men.
The movie is done in musical theater style, with many songs and most of them sung by Chalamet. He has a very pleasant singing voice, if a bit thin sounding with shallow vibrato that seems more of an afterthought. But it is effective enough for this type of production.
My favorite character is Hugh Grant as the tiny orange man with bright green hair. He even sings passably.
My wife and I watched it at home on DVD from our public library, after our usual Saturday evening steak and Bordeaux dinner, a 2019 Chateau Ormes de Pez. And of course chocolate cake for dessert.
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- TxMike
- May 5, 2024
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Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official sites
- Language
- Also known as
- Вонка
- Filming locations
- Bath, Somerset, England, UK(October 2021)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $125,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $218,402,312
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $39,005,800
- Dec 17, 2023
- Gross worldwide
- $632,302,312
- Runtime1 hour 56 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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