Wonka (PG)

Source: Dan Loves Film

Dir: Paul King

Cast: Timothee Chalamet, Calah Lane, Keegan-Michael Key, Paterson Joseph, Matt Lucas, Matthew Baynton, Sally Hawkins, Rowan Atkinson, Jim Carter, Tom Davis, Olivia Colman, Hugh Grant

Timothee Chalamet shines as a young Willy Wonka in this charming and whimsical origin story of the famous chocolatier

Over the course of the past decade or so, we have seen the number of original titles produced on the big screen dwindle to worrying numbers. We live in an age where the box office is dominated by superhero movies, sequels, remakes and even the more recently termed, requels. The most egregious and usually tainted attempts to squeeze beloved classics for every penny, are the unwarranted origin stories. Hence my scepticism when I first caught wind that an origin tale of Roald Dahl‘s oddball chocolatier, Willy Wonka, was in the works….

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