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With Timothée Chalamet as Willy Wonka, ‘Wonka’ has realized the secret to the perfect 21st-century adaptation, writes Holly Thomas: Cherry-pick the best elements of the old story, then write a new one almost entirely from scratch.
With Wonka out now, we look back at the Gene Wilder and the Johnny Depp chocolate factory movies and decide which Wonka candies are worth eating.
The new Willy Wonka film is a fine piece of family entertainment. It’s got spectacular visual effects. It’s got joyous songs. And it’s got hilarious turns by Olivia Colman and Hugh Grant. There’s just one problem.
Beneath his outward charm and showmanship, he’s a gleefully sadistic psychopath – this Timothée Chalamet version is just a saccharine sap
Willy Wonka is undoubtedly an eccentric man. But could he and his band of Oompa-Loompas be hiding a homicidal secret?