
Time Out
Great fun, with Wilder for once giving an impeccably controlled performance as the factory's bizarre owner.
Full reviewThe 1971 family classic with Gene Wilder as candy mogul Wonka. Roald Dahl's tale sees poor young Charlie win a trip to the most eccentric chocolate factory. The world is astounded when Wonka, for years a recluse in his factory, announces that five lucky souls will be given a tour of the factory - shown all the secrets of his amazing empire, and one will win a lifetime supply of Wonka chocolate. Finding a golden ticket in one a Wonka chocolate bar, young Charlie is chosen as one of the five along with Veruca Salt, Mike Teevee, Violet Beauregarde and Augustus Gloop.
Great fun, with Wilder for once giving an impeccably controlled performance as the factory's bizarre owner.
Full review(Gene Wilder is) a wonderful actor quite capable of hitting Dahl’s ambivalences (and he has a lovely entrance), but Stuart’s clunky stop-and-start pace and sketchy tone give him nowhere to go.
Full reviewWilly Wonka creates a marvelous world as close to heaven as any kid can imagine and never talks down to its young audience.
Full reviewDelightful, 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...
Full reviewThe casting of Gene Wilder in the title role is the key: there is a crazed, yet knowing, glint in his eye that suggests the world of corporate confectionery is more sillier and sinister than we will ever know.
Full reviewWilly Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is available to stream in Australia now on Stan and Google Play and Apple TV and Ritz at Home.
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