A classic movie that everyone should watch at least once. This film is filled with pure imagination, I love how it's slightly dark but still full of whimsy!

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is a timeless kids movie. It has just the right amount of creepy elements and humor that it can be enjoyed by adults as well. Gene Wilder is perfect as the outlandish chocolate maker and all the songs are engraved into my brain. There are some outstanding set pieces and the crew was able to bring the chocolate factory to life.

If the obits are anything to go by, Gene Wilder had a prolific career but he is first and foremost Willy Wonka.

This is not without reason. There are few more memorable and enchanting performances than this one. He is warm, charismatic and intelligent while being slightly unhinged, possibly mad. Despite being based on a character in the Roald Dahl novel, it’s Wilder who really makes Wonka a name familiar to all, even 40+ years after the film was made.

This is bolstered by some of the most creative set design work ever put to film. The main room in the factory is just so colourful and tactile - you want it to be real. The way Wonka glides around during his musical number makes you feel like he’s been there all his life.

It’s the perfect cocktail of happiness, madness, warmth and danger; easily one of the greatest films ever made. Rest in peace Mr. Wonka.

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Love Gene Wilder!!! So awesome in this movie!!

I don't even know to explain how creepy these Oompa Loompas are!

Entertainingly odd and wildly weird is the way that I'd describe this movie. From Charlie's bed-ridden grandparents to the indescribable boat ride to the Oompa Loompas, it's a bizarre but fun film.

Gene Wilder's Wonka disposes of the children who break the rules and only little Charlie Bucket proves worthy of Wonka's reward. Everything is bright and wonderful here for the most part, a land of candy that is still amazing to watch today. Wilder is perfect in every single frame, teetering from nurturer to psychopath between breaths. The monologue he gives on the boat ride is a thing of nightmares and I really like the scene near the end where Wonka loses it in his office with Grandpa Joe. "Good day Sir!!" indeed.

The way that animation is thrown into the mix during the Oompa Loompa songs is delightfully twisted. Moments like these really add to the strange creep factor in an otherwise happy film. This version of Roald Dahl's children's book remains superior over the "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" remake.

Gene Wilder is the clear MVP of "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory". He plays the title character with a great deal of nuance. Outwardly, Willy Wonka is a strange oddball, but Wilder also brings a certain sadness and menace to the role. The production is equally good. The entire world is vivid, and the decision to shoot the film in Munich results in a very distinct look. The musical numbers are also fantastic, with several songs proving to be extremely catchy. There is also little else to complain about. Charlie and his grandfather are a great duo; the other children are all pretty much assholes, but in an entertaining way. And the story is also told in a very effective arc. It's a bit of a shame that Roald Dahl later disowned the movie. It is actually by far my favorite adaptation of the author's works.

Shoulda had Richard Pryor and his black son stompin thru that place haaaaaaaaaa jesus wtf

Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory is one of the best children films of all-time.

Gene Wilder still a zany Wonka after all these years.

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“Mr. Wonka: "Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted."
Charlie Bucket: "What happened?"
Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after.”
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Class movie...

Classic movie.. always fun to watch.

This is a right-wing propagandist wet dream... The perpetuation that the poor can with hard work lifts themselves above the oppression of their capitalist masters. The Oompa Loompas are the slaves of Wonka's industrial machine, indentured for life because Wonka _saved_ them from a life in Loompaland. The Oompa Loompas are convinced by Wonka that their previous life was _"Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world - hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles,"_