Wonka (2023)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Actor: Timothée Chalamet, Gustave Die, Murray McArthur
Director: Paul King
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Quality: HD
Duration: 1h 56m
Release: 2023
IMDb: 7.5/10
Willy Wonka, an aspiring magician, inventor, and chocolatier, arrives in Europe to establish his chocolate shop at The Galéries Gourmet. Burning through his meager savings, he is coerced to stay at Mrs. Scrubitt's boarding house by her henchman Bleacher and, despite orphan Noodle's warning about the fine print, signs a contract because he is illiterate. To pay them off, Wonka introduces "hoverchocs", chocolates that make people fly, facing opposition from three rival chocolatiers who call The Chief of Police to confiscate his earnings for disrupting trade and selling without a chocolate store.
Unable to pay the exorbitant fees imposed on him by the contract, Wonka is captured and forced to work in a launderette for Mrs. Scrubitt alongside five other captives, including Noodle. Learning of a "Chocolate Cartel" plot involving the rival chocolatiers, he makes his escape with the help of Noodle; while he promises her a lifetime supply of chocolates, she promises to teach him how to read. The Cartel exploits The Chief's weakness for chocolate to attempt to force Wonka to leave town. Wonka tells Noodle that his affinity for chocolate stems from his late mother. He also mentions the theft of his chocolates by an enigmatic orange man who has been stealing them for years. To produce his signature chocolate, Wonka and Noodle travel to the local zoo, milking Abigail the giraffe. Together with the other launderette workers, they embark on a chocolate-selling crusade to alleviate their debts while using tunnels underneath the city to evade Scrubitt and The Chief. Unmasking an Oompa Loompa named Lofty as the thief, Wonka discovers that the Oompa Loompas seek retribution for the cocoa beans Wonka took from Loompaland under Lofty's watch. Wonka captures Lofty, but Lofty dupes Wonka into freeing him; he strikes Wonka with a frying pan and snatches a jar of chocolate before disappearing.
