Wonka Review - A Sweet Prequel?

This review of Paul King's new Willy Wonka origin film starring Timothée Chalamet and Olivia Coleman dives into whether this prequel to Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory delivers. Visually imaginative with delightful sets and choreography, but does the story truly captivate or lack some magic?

[@gcsuga2148]

i believe timothee chalamet is getting a lot of unnecessary hate for this movie, i personally loved his singing and acting and especially was shocked out how good he was playing a funny insane character compared to his pervious roles.

[@CoasterCreationsOfficial]

I know i loved him

[@natedickinson2067]

I loved his performance and I believe Gene Wilder is proud of his performance.

[@taliagmail.com2005]

his singing was better than mine

[@Legomovie970]

Timothée Chalamet and Hugh Grant both stole the show in this movie! Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is my favorite book of all-time, I'm a big Roald Dahl fan (he's my favorite author), and seeing Wonka (2023) on the big screen with my family the night before Christmas Eve was such a wonderful experience! The songs (especially "A Hatful of Dreams" and "A World Of Your Own") are incredible, the acting is amazing, the visuals are beautiful, the set designs are spectacular, the story is very well written, and it's super faithful to both the book and the original film. I've always been a fan of Tim Burton's 2005 version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, because it's a childhood favorite of mine, and I have so much nostalgia for it. Even when I was a kid, I always preferred Tim Burton's 2005 version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory over the 1971 version, but Paul King's new Wonka film just destroyed me! It's the best Roald Dahl adaptation of all-time, and it's my favorite film of 2023! It's right on par with the 2005 version, and it might be even better. I'm definitely gonna re-watch the 1971 version eventually.

[@VictoriaRamos-jz6mb]

Timothèe Chalamet is adorable! He is literally the cutest little angel ever and I recently developed a crush on him. By the way, I'm currently writing a novel about Willy Wonka's daughter, Hillary. It's called Little Wonka. Fun fact: Willy Wonka's wife's name is Ava. And when I write Willy Wonka in this book about this thirteen-year-old girl who's half Lynn Loud Jr. athlete (If you know about The Loud House, you'll know what I'm talking about) and half chocolatier (takes after her daddy and mama, Ava), I see Timothèe Chalamet in this version. In the book after an introduction with Willy marrying Ava and Ava becoming pregnant with Hillary then giving birth to Hillary after nine months, the novel really starts when Hillary meets fourteen year old Sir Patrick Roswell Larkin. He's the youngest son of Pepperidge Larkin and the younger brother of Rocky Larkin. According to prophecy, Hillary is to save London from an evil threat. Turns out Pepperidge is the threat and Rocky is also a threat. They turn Yub Yub, Willy's trusted Oompa Loompa and Hillary's uncle since before she was born who speaks with a British accent and also speaks Loompanese, which is actually Ewok language, into an evil version and Pepperidge clones Patrick into evil clones and Hillary had to shoot them but ends up actually shooting Patrick (the real one). Her tears heal him, Willy is proud of his daughter, Hillary and Patrick share their first kiss, they end up together at the end, and Pepperidge and Rocky are arrested and they turn into the famous Roald Dahl characters, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker.

[@taliagmail.com2005]

he is so chill

[@matthewbolitho-jones]

I like Wonka