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Film Review: Charming Timothée Chalomet Brings the Willy to ‘Wonka’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on December 15, 2023 - 9:06am
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”Wonka” is in theaters December 15th. Featuring Timothée Chalomet, Hugh Grant, Olivia Coleman, Paterson Joseph, Tom Davis and Keegan-Michael Key. Screenplay by Paul King and Simon Farnaby. Directed by Paul King. Rated “PG”
Continue reading for Spike Walter’s full review of “Wonka”
Wonka
Photo credit: Warner Bros.
Continue reading for Spike Walter’s full review of “Wonka”
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CHICAGO – “Wonka” is a sweet, perhaps too sweet, musical origin story of the world famous cantankerous candy man. Timothée Chalomet has got a song in his heart and sweets up his sleeve in a movie that threatens to give old fashioned “family films” a good name once again.
 Rating: 3.5/5.0 |
Chalamet plays Wonka as a young illiterate dreamer who spends years sailing the world compiling ingredients from far and wide for his recipes. He arrives in London with 12 shillings in his pocket hoping to make it as Chocolatier by opening his own shop in the Galeries Gourmet. This is controlled by a Big Chocolate cartel headed up by the dastardly Slugworth (Paterson Joseph).
But the big city is no place for a trusting dreamer and he finds himself penniless and in indentured servitude to a dastardly laundry owner named Mrs Scrubbit (Olivia Coleman) and her lunkheaded henchman Bleacher (Tom Davis). You can lock up the man, but you can’t lock up his spirit. And Wonka sets in motion a plan to get his chocolate creations in front of a choco-holic public and make it in the business one and for all.
Continue reading for Spike Walter’s full review of “Wonka”Wonka
Photo credit: Warner Bros.
Continue reading for Spike Walter’s full review of “Wonka”
