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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

1971

Mel Stuart

Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear ...

6.9

7,294

Comedy. Musical. Kids Willy Wonka is an eccentric candy maker who starts a contest offering a factory tour to five lucky winners who find a golden ticket in their Wonka bars. One of them is Charlie Bucket, an impoverished, but good natured, child who hopes for a better future for himself, his mother and his four grandparents. The other four winners are nasty obnoxious and bratty children.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"'Willy Wonka' is such a surely and wonderfully spun fantasy that it works on all kinds of minds, and it is fascinating because, like all classic fantasy, it is fascinated with itself (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"Better than Tim Burton’s soppy rerun (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Cindy White IGN	"Like all the best and most beloved family films, there's plenty in this film for adults to appreciate as well as kids."	POS
United States	Pauline Kael The New Yorker	"A fantasy with music for children that never finds an appropriate style"	NEU
United Kingdom	Time Out	"An adaptation of Roald Dahl's charmingly eccentric novella (a Grimm-style moral tale) which has the true magic touch of fantasy (...) Great fun, with Wilder for once giving an impeccably controlled"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"The crazy color schemes and visual effects once made this a popular head picture, though you'd have to be stoned to tolerate the score"	NEU

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