Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Awesome Music: There are so many different genres of good tunes, you'd swear The Backyardigans were involved.
  • Broken Base: Better than the original movie? Or is the original still the best? Woe betide the one who voices an opinion on the subject.
  • Ear Worm: Every last song on the soundtrack.
  • Ensemble Darkhorse: Mike or Violet. Mike for being an Insufferable Genius Deadpan Snarker and Violet for being a Little Miss Badass Adorable, with attitude.
  • Heartwarming Moments: Grandpa George, a completely irascible curmudgeon who had virtually nothing good to say about anything, tells Charlie, when he offers to sell the golden ticket in order to support the family, that he would be a fool to sell his dream for something as common and ridiculous as money. Considering how cantankerous and irritable he was to that point, it comes out of nowhere that he is the one who speaks out against selling the ticket, particularly in contrast to his stating that Charlie's one bar a year didn't stand a chance in hell of winning in the first place.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: The references to cannibalism.
  • Magnificent Bastard: Wonka takes sadistic delight in punishing children in his whimsical death-traps and then mocking parents afraid for their offspring's lives.
    • The Oompa-Loompas' 'improvisation' smacks of conspiracy, but ramps it straight into casino territory, as it rather implies that he cherrypicked those kids specifically.
  • Memetic Molester: Willy Wonka. Beyond the Nightmare Fuel elements of Johnny Depp's performance, when the film hit theaters it was in the wake of Michael Jackson being found not guilty on child molestation charges. As Depp-Wonka and Jackson are superficially similar in appearance, the film was the butt of jokes and questions as to whether this was intentional.
  • Memetic Mutation: "Good morning starshine! The Earth says 'Hello!'"
  • Purity Sue: Charlie, who's a saint in comparison to his alternate universe self (who was still a good kid, but flawed like a regular child). He's hardly even given a chance to test his character for the first half of the film, unlike his 1971 self who faces the temptation of both Slugworth's deal and the fizzy lifting drinks.
    • This is actually more in line with how he was written in the book. Whether or not staying faithful to the book was a good thing in this case is a definite YMMV situation.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Specifically, it would have been great see to Depp recite the full "We have no way of knowing..." poem with all the manic energy his character used in the book.
  • Viewer Gender Confusion: In this film, Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka actually looked like a girl.
  • What an Idiot!: Wonka himself. How could he possibly think it would be a good idea to lick the blood/goo of totally unfamiliar insects and not have anything bad happen.
    • Veruca's father, who can't work out how to climb over a very small gate.
  • Woolseyism: Mike Teevee received an update from a television addict obsessed with Westerns to an videogame-playing technology nerd, an image children of the day can better relate to. His flaw is that too much time "gaining intelligence" from TV and playing violent video games has made him a dickish, violent little know-it-all with no imagination. YMMV if this is Hypocritical Humor or not, as some of Tim Burton's works have actually gotten video game adaptions (See: The Nightmare Before Christmas).
    • Though it does make the Oompa Loompas still insisting that television was responsible pretty nonsensical.
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