Wonka 4K 2023 2160p WEB-DL

A curious reading of Roald Dahl's classic: this time we will look not at the adventures of the good boy Charlie at the chocolate factory, but at the formation of the mysterious confectioner Willy Wonka.

Wonka 4K Review
A young man (Timothee Chalamet) arrives in an early 20th century European metropolis. He has a dream of opening his own candy store. He is good-looking, incredibly driven, but unfortunately extremely naive. His name is Willy Wonka, and he is sure to succeed.

The first talk of filming the story of the formation of the famous owner of the chocolate factory went in 2016. From one year to the next, the project has grown with new and new details: Paul King, the director of "The Paddingtons," as production designer, Timothee Chalamet as Wonka - by the end of 2023, seven years later, the movie was finally released. And although the star of "Call Me By Your Name" in the film is the main and most colorful role, Olivia Colman or, for example, Hugh Grant shine in the background no less. The latter said in an interview that his career has "moved to the stage of freak-show". The role of a green-haired pygmy Oompa-Loompa, of course, is out of the number of recent campy tricksters played by Grant - Fletcher from "Gentlemen", Greg Simmonds from "Operation Fortune", Falsh Fitzwilliam from "Dungeons and Dragons" - but the trend is obvious.

Barely making it to the big city, Wonka spends all his savings on unnecessary trifles and is left with no money. All the young man has is an extraordinary talent for making chocolate and a valise with the necessary ingredients. Trapped in debt slavery after carelessly signing an agreement to stay at a hotel, he meets similarly careless troublemakers in a basement laundry room: maid Noodle (Kala Lane), accountant Abascus Crunch (Jim Carter), comedian Larry Chucklesworth (Rich Fulcher), and others. Thanks to the cleverness of Wonka and Noodle, they all get the opportunity to leave the basement from time to time to still open Willy's Chocolate Shop, get rich, and redeem themselves from slavery.

One of the main and most unexpected finds of the picture is the interaction between Timothy Chalamet and Kala Lane, their characters, having met quite by chance, become practically brother and sister, with each minute in the feelings of kinship is believed more and more. The episode in the zoo, where the two of them sneak in to get the milk of a giraffe, is the best in the movie. Both funny and touching (it turns out that milking a giraffe can bring you to tears) and exciting, the scene belongs to literally all genres at the same time, but stays within the framework of a family movie. Unfortunately, the visit to the menagerie falls on the first half of the tape, and more on the set height Paul King does not rise: all the musical numbers in "Wonka" are good, but brilliant only one.

Another gem of the movie is the integrity of the portrayal of the chocolate conspiracy theory. The city's three chocolate manufacturers are in a cartel agreement to keep a new player, Wonka, out of the market. Their head office is in a church dungeon, all the clergy are secretly chocoholics and can't go a day without a treat. It's the same with the police, many of whom value chocolate more than money. The city is taken over, but it is impossible to guess by whom and by what. If the arguments about criticism of European migration policy in "Paddington" looked drawn by the ears, in "Wonka" conspiracy lies on the surface. Not at all, however, without touching the family entertainment part of what is happening on the screen.

Paul King has once again made a wonderful movie for the whole family. Not as cozy as the first or second part of "Paddington", well Timothee Chalamet is no teddy bear. The musical is seamlessly woven with the narrative, one perfectly complementing the other. It is likely that "Wonka" will soon get a sequel, because next year King will release the third chapter of the story about the bear from Peru, and then we can deal with a new trilogy.