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The children in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are greedy, nasty and bad to the bone. And they get magnificently punished by Willy Wonka for their transgressions inside the factory. The whole scenario is so at odds with contemporary attitudes to children and parenting that it provokes a hilarious level of mind-blowing dissonance.

Roald Dahl was not keen on adaptations. He roundly dismissed the now beloved 1972 film version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as “saccharine, sappy and sentimental”, and reckoned Spike Milligan would have been a better Wonka than Gene Wilder. He’d certainly have made a madder one.

Hollywood can’t help making onscreen chocolate look disgusting. But can Paul King’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory prequel raise the bar with a real-life chocolatier?

Gene Wilder starred in one of the finest – and most unhinged – Dahl adaptations ever made. But life on set wasn’t always sweet

The Oompa Loompas are still problematic, but director Paul King’s follow-up to the Paddington movies can’t help but charm

“Wonka,” a sugary prequel to Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” delivers not so much a world of pure imagination as a land of constant cuteness. Of course it does. The affable musical film, starring Timothée Chalamet, is directed by Paul King, the King of “Aww”s, who made heart-warming hits out of “Paddington” and “Paddington 2.”

Never mind using “pure imagination”, as the song goes in the original screen version of Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory.

Paul King told Radio Times, as reported by the Telegraph, that everything which is consumed in Wonka - which will be released in the UK on December 8 - was edible in real life.

Rutland Youth Theatre is having a sugar rush.

In a whimsy-driven musical, a young chocolatier sets his sights on success in a city governed by morally bankrupt authorities