Synopsis :
Willy Wonka places five Golden Tickets randomly among hundreds of thousands of Wonka Bars on a conveyor belt, which are then boxed and shipped across the world. Near the factory, Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore) lives in a small, dilapidated house with his parents and four grandparents. Mr. Bucket (Noah Taylor) provides the only family income by screwing caps on toothpaste tubes at a nearby plant, and family meals consist only of watered-down cabbage soup.
Charlie has long been enthralled with Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp) and his chocolate, so much that he has built a scale replica of his factory entirely out of defective toothpaste caps sneaked home by Mr. Bucket. Grandpa Joe (David Kelly) tells Charlie about the time he worked for Wonka, and how Wonka was commissioned by an Indian prince named Prince Pondicherry to build a palace entirely out of chocolate, which promptly melted in the boiling sun after he ignored Wonka’s advice to eat it. Plans to rebuild it were curtailed, however, due to problems concerning spies amid Wonka’s staff, who stole his secret recipes and sold them to rival candymakers. As a result, Wonka fires all of his workers and shuts down the factory, which later inexplicably reopens despite no new employees being hired.
The next day, Charlie hears about a contest on television: five Golden Tickets have been placed in five random Wonka Bars worldwide, and the winners will be given a full tour of the factory as well as a lifetime supply of chocolate, while one ticketholder will be given a special prize at the end of the tour. Wonka’s sales subsequently skyrocket, which causes a rise in cavities and boosts toothpaste sales. With the upswing in profits, the toothpaste factory decides to automate and replaces its workers (including Mr. Bucket) with faster-working machines.
The first four tickets are found fairly quickly. The recipients are Augustus Gloop (Philip Wiegratz), a gluttonous German boy; Veruca Salt (Julia Winter), a very spoiled English girl; Violet Beauregarde (AnnaSophia Robb), a competitive gum chewer, and Mike Teavee (Jordan Fry), an arrogant television and video game addict. The bar Charlie gets for his birthday does not contain a ticket, and Grandpa Joe secretly gives Charlie a silver dollar for a second bar, which also comes up empty. After overhearing that the final ticket was found in Russia, Charlie finds a ten-dollar note half-buried in the snow while on his way home, and he purchases a Wonka Bar at a news shop. At the exact moment it was revealed that the Russian ticket was forged, Charlie discovers the real fifth ticket inside the wrapper. After the euphoria dies down, he tells his family that he had received an offer of $500 for the ticket and that the money was more important. Grandpa George rebuffs Charlie by telling him that money is commonplace but there are only five Golden Tickets in the world.
Charlie and the other ticket holders are greeted by an automated puppet show that sings “The Wonka Welcome Song” and presents an unoccupied throne; fireworks then set the puppets alight and cause them to melt and break down. Wonka first appears as having mingled into the group to watch the show as well. During the tour, each of the bad children disobey Wonka’s orders after being tempted by something related to their individual character flaws, and suffer various consequences: Augustus is sucked up a chocolate extraction pipe after falling into a chocolate river from which he was drinking, Violet is turned into an oversized blueberry after chewing unstable three-course-meal gum, Veruca is pushed into a garbage chute by worker squirrels after she tries to take one as a pet, and Mike is shrunk with a teleporter that he uses on himself. The Oompa-Loompas (Deep Roy) sing a song of morality after each elimination. The children leave the factory with an exaggerated characteristic or deformity related to their demise-Augustus becomes covered in chocolate; Violet becomes violet colored; Mike is overstretched; Veruca is merely covered in garbage.
Wonka then invites Charlie to come live and work in the factory with him, and reveals that the purpose of the Golden Tickets and the tour was to make the “least rotten” child the heir of his factory. The only catch is that Charlie must leave his family behind, because Wonka believes family is a hindrance while a chocolatier needed creative freedom. A subplot told in flashbacks involves Wonka’s dentist father, Dr. Wilbur Wonka (Christopher Lee), denying his son candy because of the potential risk to his teeth. After sneaking a leftover piece of chocolate from the fireplace (which Dr. Wonka had previously used to burn all his Halloween candy), he was instantly hooked and ran away from home to follow his dreams of becoming a chocolatier, which later became successful.
As his family is the most important thing in his life, Charlie refuses Wonka’s offer. His family is living contently a while later, as his father gets a new job at the factory maintaining the machine that had originally replaced him. However, Wonka is too depressed to make candy the way he used to, and turns to Charlie for advice. Charlie decides to help Wonka confront and reconcile with his estranged father; Wonka finally realizes the value of family, while his father learns to accept his son for who he is, and not what he does. In the end, Charlie has the chocolate factory, and Wonka has patched up with his family.
Starring :
Johnny Depp … Willy Wonka
Freddie Highmore … Charlie Bucket
David Kelly … Grandpa Joe
Helena Bonham Carter … Mrs. Bucket
Noah Taylor … Mr. Bucket
Missi Pyle … Mrs. Beauregarde
James Fox … Mr. Salt
Deep Roy … Oompa Loompa
Christopher Lee … Dr. Wonka
Adam Godley … Mr. Teavee
Franziska Troegner … Mrs. Gloop
AnnaSophia Robb … Violet Beauregarde (as Annasophia Robb)
Julia Winter … Veruca Salt
Jordan Fry … Mike Teavee
Philip Wiegratz … Augustus Gloop
Director :
Tim Burton
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