Is Wonka Worth Seeing?
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With the release of the new Wonka movie many are wondering if it is worth seeing. A change up from Charlie and the Chocolate factory, the new star is now Willy Wonka. Timiothy Chalamet plays Willy Wonka as an adventurous soul with perhaps major delusion.
Wonka is meant to set the scene as Willy’s business exploration as a young man. The movie reminds of Barbie with it’s big and bright decor and imaginary like characters. Where Wonka differs is in the musical and of course living in a chocolate factory. Wonka features things like dancing on a boat in a chocolate river and singing wacky songs about his magical candy.
In Wonka, we not only get to see his current standing in the factory, but his past as well. As Wonka arrives in London after sailing the world to look for the magical ingredients for his candy. An example of an ingredient is the Hoverchoc a chocolate egg with a bug inside that can cause levitation. Because of Wonka’s talent in chocolate and candy making, his competitors to shut him down. A nasty snobbish group lead by Slugworth the richest and meanest of them all.
To remind those of where Wonka originates think of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s best selling novel. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory stars Charlie an impoverished boy with a heart of gold. His dream is to see the mysterious factory of Willy Wonka. Wonka offers the once in a lifetime opportunity to visit his factory with a golden ticket found in his chocolate bars. At the end of the movie Wonka gives his factory to Charlie, as Wonka was looking for a suitor for his factory all along.
A big change to Wonka’s factory as a whole are the presence of Oompa-Loompas. For those not familiar, Oompa-Loompas were Wonka’s “workers” in his factory. The Oompa-Loompas were short people with orange skin and green hair. This is one of the few ugly examples that Wonka tries to eliminate from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Another is the crazy maniacal side of Wonka and his plans. Wonka is now kinder hearted although still a little manic through his intense passion for chocolate.
His passion of chocolate is so intense he beleives he can lift the spirit of the world with it and change your life. This intense passion is well perceived through Chamalet’s jaw dropping performance. Chamalet is an ergenetic passionate young man, but also missed his dead mother which can be seen at times during the movie.
Some potential hidden messages in Wonka include hanging on to your dreams no matter the odds. This refers to the greedy nature of corporations that want to monopolize and drown out competition. In this case, the competitive candy business’s. Wonka plays on tough upbringings and self reliance. How all these factors can play into who you are.
Is Wonka Worth seeing though? With a Rotten Tomato Score of 82% and 7.3 on ImDb checking it out sounds justify-able.