Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Now before I start I want to clarify that I am reviewing the 2005 version of the film. It's based on a book of the same name written by Roald Dahl. Just a heads up, I am putting a cartoon at the end of this review because I feel like it. Let's start.

Charlie's house

The movie starts with a poor boy named Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore) who lives with a loving family. Charlie asks his Grandpa Joe (David Kelly) about a chocolate factory down the street from Charlie's house. Grandpa Joe says that he used to work there. He also says that it started off as a small store run by a man named Willy Wonka who made the most amazing candy. One day it turned into a factory that even made a chocolate castle for an Indian Prince. But some spies sneaked into the factory and told Wonka's rivals about all of Wonka's candy recipes. So Wonka closed down the factory. But someone must work in the factory because they still make chocolate. The next day Wonka announces that he hid five golden tickets in five Wonka bars all over the world and he wants five children to find them. Whoever finds them will get a tour of Wonka's  factory, and one of them will get a special prize. The whole word goes Wonka Bar crazy. The first one to get a ticket is a greedy boy named Augustus Gloop (Philip Wiegratz). The second ticket is found by a Spoiled girl named Veruca Salt (Julia Winter) who didn't find it but made her father (James Fox) make a bunch of workers find it (yes she's that spoiled). The third ticket is found by the competitive Violet Beauregarde (AnnaSophia Robb). They changed Violet from just being obsessed with gum to being obsessed with winning (and still gum) which I think is a good change. The Next kid to get a ticket is the aggressive Mike Teavee. Meanwhile, Charlie wants a ticket but he doesn't have much money and he already bought two Wonka Bars already and none of them had a ticket. But one day he finds some money on the side of the road and buys a Wonka Bar and it has a golden ticket inside. He runs back home and tells his family. Grandpa Joe agrees to accompany Charlie at the factory.

The next day Charlie and the other kids go into The Factory and meet Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp). Wonka takes them to the candy forest (well at least that's what I call it). Wonka says that they can help themselves to all the candy they want. One of the kids notices some odd creatures (Deep Roy). Wonka says that they are Oompa Loompas from Loompaland. But Augustus Gloop starts eating from the chocolate river and he falls in. He gets sucked into a pipe, and then the Ooompa Loompa's sing a song. Augustus shoots up the pipe and an Oompa Loompa takes his mother Mrs. Gloop (Franziska Troegner) to the room where the pipe leads. Then the rest of the kids get in a boat. While on the boat ride Charlie asks Willy Wonka about his childhood, resulting in Wonka having a flashback. (Flashback start) Wonka as a kid is trick-or-treating on Halloween when he comes home his father, Dr. Wilbur Wonka (Christopher Lee) who is a dentist, is worried about Willy's health and throws all of his Halloween candy into the fire place (flashback over). The boat stops at the inventing room. Inside the room are weird contraptions which make ever weirder candy. One machine makes a stick of gum which works as a three course meal. Violet tries it and when she gets to dessert (which is blueberry pie) she turns into a giant blueberry. Some Oompa Loompa's roll her away (while singing a song) and her mother (Missi Pyle) comes with Violet. The next room is the nut room. The nut room is a room full of squirrels who crack open nuts, and if they get a bad nut they throw it down a giant hole in the floor. Veruca Salt says that she wants a squirrel and she tries to get one. The squirrels tap on her head and she is declared a bad nut and her and her father are tossed down the hole (while the Oompa Loompa's sing a song). Charlie asks Wonka what the first candy he had was which causes him to have another flashback. (Flashback start) young Wonka is cleaning the fireplace (where his father burned the halloween candy) while cleaning it he finds a chocolate ball, he eats it and becomes obsessed with candy (flashback over). They enter the TV room which turns a giant chocolate bar into a normal sized candy bar on TV. Naturally, Mike TeaVee has to try it. It makes Mike tiny and some Oompa Loompa's take him and his Father (Adam Godley) to the taffy stretching machine to make mike bigger (and this the crazyest Oompa Loopa song in the movie).




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Realizing that Charlie is the only child left, Wonka declares him the winner. They board Wonka's amazing glass elevator. Now on the elevator Wonka has another flash back. (Flashback start) young Willy Wonka says that he wants to go to the candy capitals of the world and he runs away from home but he doesn't go far. When he comes back home he sees that his entire house is gone. How it happened, I don't know (flashback over). The glass elevator crashes through the roof of Charlie's house. He tells Charlie's family that Charlie is the heir to the factory. But Wonka wants Charlie to live in the factory without his family. Charlie says no. Wonka's candy sales are going down so he goes to Charlie. Willy Wonka and Charlie go to find Wonka's father. So they go to Dr. Wonka's house and he recognizes him. Wonka is reunited with his father and Wonka even lets Charlie work in the factory with his family. The End.



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This is a great movie. Johnny Depp has some very funny lines. The design for the factory is very wacky and creative. I also like how they improved the kids from the book (who aren't Charlie). It also has a timeless feel to it, like it could take place anywhere between the 1970s and now. But sometimes Johnny Depp can be annoying. Also I find Charlie to be a bit of a goodie-two-shoes nice guy. I enjoyed this film a lot. By the way I am reviewing Frozen next.

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