Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

4.33
    Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
    1971

    Synopsis

    When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bucket seeks the golden ticket that will make him a winner.

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    Cast

    • Peter OstrumCharlie Bucket
    • Gene WilderWilly Wonka
    • Jack AlbertsonGrandpa Joe
    • Nora DenneyMrs. Teevee
    • Roy KinnearMr. Salt
    • Julie Dawn ColeVeruca Salt
    • Paris ThemmenMike Teevee
    • Denise NickersonViolet Beauregarde
    • Leonard StoneMr. Beauregarde
    • Diana SowleMrs. Bucket

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Chicago Sun-Times

      Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is probably the best film of its sort since The Wizard of Oz. It is everything that family movies usually claim to be, but aren't: Delightful, funny, scary, exciting, and, most of all, a genuine work of imagination. Willy Wonka is such a surely and wonderfully spun fantasy that it works on all kinds of minds, and it is fascinating because, like all classic fantasy, it is fascinated with itself.
    • 90

      IGN

      Like all the best and most beloved family films, there's plenty in this film for adults to appreciate as well as kids.
    • 80

      Empire

      Roald Dahl's immortal, sugar-coated morality play finds Gene Wilder as disturbing and fault-ridden but compelling as the book described. Okay, so its pacing may be slightly off (taking nearly 40 minutes to arrive at the factory gates), but this is still a Golden Ticket if ever there was one.
    • 80

      Time Out

      Great fun, with Wilder for once giving an impeccably controlled performance as the factory's bizarre owner.
    • 75

      TV Guide Magazine

      Adapted (with some changes) by Roald Dahl from his famous children's book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Willy Wonka creates a marvelous world as close to heaven as any kid can imagine and never talks down to its young audience. The film is sometimes dark in its tone but by the end (when Wonka's motives and true nature are revealed) it is fabulously uplifting.
    • 70

      The A.V. Club

      For a children's film, Willy Wonka is surprisingly malevolent, which is most of its fun. But the refreshing malice and twisted whimsy only kick into high gear after 45 minutes of plodding setup and film-padding songs.
    • 60

      Variety

      An okay family musical fantasy featuring Gene Wilder as an eccentric candymaker who makes a boy's dreams come true.
    • 50

      Chicago Reader

      The crazy color schemes and visual effects once made this a popular head picture, though you'd have to be stoned to tolerate the score, which includes The Candy Man.

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