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[[Broken Base|Fans are divided]] on which is the superior film.
[[Broken Base|Fans are divided]] on which is the superior film.

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* [[The Wonka]]: The eccentric boss and owner of the factory.


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* [[The Complainer Is Always Wrong]]: Mike doesn't really do anything but snark, and the questions he asks and things he points out are usually justified, yet (at least, in the TV room) everyone acts like he's [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|completely wrong]] and that he deserved his fate. Then again, maybe he did.
* [[The Complainer Is Always Wrong]]: Mike doesn't really do anything but snark, and the questions he asks and things he points out are usually justified, yet (at least, in the TV room) everyone acts like he's [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|completely wrong]] and that he deserved his fate. Then again, maybe he did.
* [[Creative Sterility]]: What seems to be Mike's problem, in addition to [[New Media Are Evil|a video-game-induced violent streak]]: he's so jaded by TV and video games and so focused on facts that he's completely unimpressed by Wonka's factory.
* [[Creative Sterility]]: What seems to be Mike's problem, in addition to [[New Media Are Evil|a video-game-induced violent streak]]: he's so jaded by TV and video games and so focused on facts that he's completely unimpressed by Wonka's factory.
* [[Cultural Translation]]: Both Mike Teevee and Violet Beauregarde are American in this version (and Augustus Gloop is German) -- although since the characters' nationalities were left deliberately ambiguous in the book and the tickets were explicitly said to be available all over the world, this is a relatively realistic touch. On a less thought-out level, though, several of the English characters use Americanisms (like "candy" when referring to sweets), and their currency is, for some reason, dollars.
* [[Cursed with Awesome]]: Violet at the end, who is now permanently blue, but with a body that can stretch like rubber. Note that Wonka and Violet's mother are the ones who view it negatively; Violet herself reckons (and rightfully so) that this [[Cool and Unusual Punishment|"punishment"]] is [[Rule of Cool|made of win]].
* [[Cursed with Awesome]]: Violet at the end, who is now permanently blue, but with a body that can stretch like rubber. Note that Wonka and Violet's mother are the ones who view it negatively; Violet herself reckons (and rightfully so) that this [[Cool and Unusual Punishment|"punishment"]] is [[Rule of Cool|made of win]].
{{quote|'''''Violet''''': Look, mother, I'm much more flexible now!
{{quote|'''Violet''': Look, mother, I'm much more flexible now!
'''''Violet's Mother''''': Yes, but you're ''blue''. }}
'''Violet's Mother''': Yes, but you're ''blue''. }}
* [[The Cynic]]: Grandpa George. Ultimately subverted when he's the one who gives an idealistic speech to persuade Charlie to use the Golden Ticket, rather than sell it for cash.
* [[The Cynic]]: Grandpa George. Ultimately subverted when he's the one who gives an idealistic speech to persuade Charlie to use the Golden Ticket, rather than sell it for cash.
* [[Daddy Issues]]: These are basically inserted wholesale into Wonka's character and aren't present in the slightest in Dahl's original book. Part of what leads to Wonka's presentation as a [[Man Child|psychotic man-child]], to some degree.
* [[Mommy Issues|Daddy Issues]]: These are basically inserted wholesale into Wonka's character and aren't present in the slightest in Dahl's original book. Part of what leads to Wonka's presentation as a [[Man Child|psychotic man-child]], to some degree.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Willy Wonka and Mike Teevee.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Willy Wonka and Mike Teevee.
** Veruca gets her moments, too.
** Veruca gets her moments, too.
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* [[Fantasy-Forbidding Father]]: Willy Wonka is given one of these as part of the [[Adaptation Expansion]]. Mr. Wonka, Sr., is a dentist who doesn't allow his son to eat candy, driving Willy to rebel against him to achieve his dream of being a chocolatier.
* [[Fantasy-Forbidding Father]]: Willy Wonka is given one of these as part of the [[Adaptation Expansion]]. Mr. Wonka, Sr., is a dentist who doesn't allow his son to eat candy, driving Willy to rebel against him to achieve his dream of being a chocolatier.
* [[First Gray Hair]]: This film provides the page quote for this trope. Willy Wonka reveals to Charlie that this made him realize he was getting old and drove him to start the Golden Ticket contest so as to find an heir to take under his wing and train up before he died.
* [[First Gray Hair]]: This film provides the page quote for this trope. Willy Wonka reveals to Charlie that this made him realize he was getting old and drove him to start the Golden Ticket contest so as to find an heir to take under his wing and train up before he died.
* [[Flash Back]]: Lampshaded.
* [[Flashback (trope)|Flashback]]: Lampshaded.
{{quote|'''Wonka:''' ''(in a dazed way)'' I'm sorry, I was having a flashback.
{{quote|'''Wonka:''' ''(in a dazed way)'' I'm sorry, I was having a flashback.
'''Mike Teavee's Dad:''' ''(disturbed)'' These flashbacks happen often?
'''Mike Teavee's Dad:''' ''(disturbed)'' These flashbacks happen often?
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* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]
** "Don't touch that squirrel's nuts! It'll make him crazy!"
** "Don't touch that squirrel's nuts! It'll make him crazy!"
** The Psycho Parody during the Mike Teavee musical number. Though we the audience never see the girl in the shower save her legs and feet, [[Double Entendre|looks like poor Mikey saw a little too much]].
** The ''[[Psycho]]'' parody during the Mike Teavee musical number. Though we the audience never see the girl in the shower save her legs and feet, [[Double Entendre|looks like poor Mikey saw a little too much]].
* [[Hollow-Sounding Head]]: Veruca.
* [[Hollow-Sounding Head]]: Veruca.
* [[Humiliation Conga]]: All of the bad kids go through this, more so than the previous versions, especially since Augustus, Violet, and Mike have their personal songs sung in front of them (though they mostly don't seem to be paying attention). One by one: Augustus falls into a chocolate river in front of everyone, gets sucked up a glass tube and sticks, goes through who-knows-what in the Fudge Room, then exits the factory covered in chocolate. Violet swells up and is rolled around, and ends up permanently blue. Veruca gets covered in trash. Mike is shrunk, then stretched to ridiculous proportions. All of them exit, in some demeaning fashion, filmed and being watched by presumably the ''whole world''.
* [[Humiliation Conga]]: All of the bad kids go through this, more so than the previous versions, especially since Augustus, Violet, and Mike have their personal songs sung in front of them (though they mostly don't seem to be paying attention). One by one: Augustus falls into a chocolate river in front of everyone, gets sucked up a glass tube and sticks, goes through who-knows-what in the Fudge Room, then exits the factory covered in chocolate. Violet swells up and is rolled around, and ends up permanently blue. Veruca gets covered in trash. Mike is shrunk, then stretched to ridiculous proportions. All of them exit, in some demeaning fashion, filmed and being watched by presumably the ''whole world''.
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'''Wonka:''' ''(throws down the newspaper he's reading)'' "I do not!" }}
'''Wonka:''' ''(throws down the newspaper he's reading)'' "I do not!" }}
* [[Insufferable Genius]]: Mike Teevee.
* [[Insufferable Genius]]: Mike Teevee.
* [[Insurmountable Waist High Fence]]: Literally.
* [[Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence]]: Literally.
* [[Jerkass Has a Point]]:
* [[Jerkass Has a Point]]:
{{quote|'''Wonka:''' That's what you get from chewing gum all day. It's just disgusting.
{{quote|'''Wonka:''' That's what you get from chewing gum all day. It's just disgusting.
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** There's also Violet and Veruca's unexplained dislike for each other, and Veruca's schadenfreude at Violet turning into a blueberry.
** There's also Violet and Veruca's unexplained dislike for each other, and Veruca's schadenfreude at Violet turning into a blueberry.
** The explanation is most likely that both girls (Veruca due to being spoiled and Violet due to being a perfectionist) feel a need to be the center of attention, and don't like sharing the limelight with one another.
** The explanation is most likely that both girls (Veruca due to being spoiled and Violet due to being a perfectionist) feel a need to be the center of attention, and don't like sharing the limelight with one another.
* [[Lady Drunk]]: How Mrs. Salt is portrayed, complete with the obligatory martini glass.
* [[Large Ham]]: Johnny Depp not only chews the scenery, he gulps it down with vodka and asks for seconds.
* [[Large Ham]]: Johnny Depp not only chews the scenery, he gulps it down with vodka and asks for seconds.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]:
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]:
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'''Oompa:''' A fish head, for example, cut this morning from a halibut... }}
'''Oompa:''' A fish head, for example, cut this morning from a halibut... }}
* [[Man Child]]: Willy Wonka seems to gain this attribute in addition to some severe [[Daddy Issues]], neither of which are present in the original book or film.
* [[Man Child]]: Willy Wonka seems to gain this attribute in addition to some severe [[Daddy Issues]], neither of which are present in the original book or film.
* [[The Monolith]]: Featured in a demonstration of Wonka's matter transmutation device...as part of a clip straight out of ''2001: A Space Odyessy'', no less.
* [[The Monolith]]: Featured in a demonstration of Wonka's matter transmutation device...as part of a clip straight out of ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'', no less.
* [[Mouthy Kid]]: Mike.
* [[Mouthy Kid]]: Mike.
* [[Musical World Hypothesis]]: Diegetic. The Oompas' "improvisation" is lampshaded, as it was in the first film.
* [[Musical World Hypotheses]]: Diegetic. The Oompas' "improvisation" is lampshaded, as mentioned above.
* [[Narrator All Along]]: It turns out it's {{spoiler|One of the Oompa-Loompas.}}
* [[Narrator All Along]]: It turns out it's {{spoiler|One of the Oompa-Loompas.}}
* [[Not Even Bothering with the Accent]]: [[Johnny Depp]] as Willy Wonka, who clearly doesn't have his father Wilbur's British accent.
* [[Not Even Bothering with the Accent]]: [[Johnny Depp]] as Willy Wonka, who clearly doesn't have his father Wilbur's British accent.
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* [[Original Cast Precedent]]: The 2005 film kept the same nationalities for the children as depicted in the 1971 film, while also [[Adaptation Expansion|giving most of them hometowns]] -- Augustus is from Düsseldorf (which suffers from a bad case of [[Hollywood Atlas|Hollywood Geography]]), Veruca is from Buckinghamshire, Violet is from [[Atlanta]], Mike is from [[Denver]], and Charlie is still ambiguously British/American. In the book, all the character's nationalities were ambiguous.
* [[Original Cast Precedent]]: The 2005 film kept the same nationalities for the children as depicted in the 1971 film, while also [[Adaptation Expansion|giving most of them hometowns]] -- Augustus is from Düsseldorf (which suffers from a bad case of [[Hollywood Atlas|Hollywood Geography]]), Veruca is from Buckinghamshire, Violet is from [[Atlanta]], Mike is from [[Denver]], and Charlie is still ambiguously British/American. In the book, all the character's nationalities were ambiguous.
* [[Perpetual Smiler]]: Willy Wonka always seems to be cheery and perky, but [[Stepford Smiler|this is hinted to be a front to cope with his daddy issues]].
* [[Perpetual Smiler]]: Willy Wonka always seems to be cheery and perky, but [[Stepford Smiler|this is hinted to be a front to cope with his daddy issues]].
* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: Both this and the original film address the problem that at the moment Charlie begins the factory tour in the book, he becomes a completely passive non-entity who does nothing to earn the prize at the end outside of staying out of trouble.
* [[Production Posse]]: [[Johnny Depp]] and [[Tim Burton]].
* [[Production Posse]]: [[Johnny Depp]] and [[Tim Burton]].
** [[Helena Bonham Carter]] turns up, too.
** [[Helena Bonham Carter]] turns up, too.
* [[Regal Ringlets]]: Veruca, the upper class brat.
* [[Revised Ending]]: There's some pretty crazy [[Adaptation Expansion]] here.
* [[Revised Ending]]: There's some pretty crazy [[Adaptation Expansion]] here.
* [[Rich Bitch]]: Veruca Salt, and Violet's mother.
* [[Rich Bitch]]: Veruca Salt, and Violet's mother.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** The toothpaste factory Mr. Bucket works for is called ''Smilex''; Wonka's throne is the same one used by [[Jack Nicholson|The Joker]] during the [[Batman (film)|parade scene]]. There's also a ribbon cutting with [[Edward Scissorhands|Johnny Depp holding a very large pair of scissors]].
** The toothpaste factory Mr. Bucket works for is called ''Smilex''; Wonka's throne is the same one used by [[Jack Nicholson|The Joker]] during the parade scene from Burton's ''[[Batman (film)|Batman]]''. There's also a ribbon cutting with [[Edward Scissorhands|Johnny Depp holding a very large pair of scissors]].
** "[[Hair (theatre)|The Earth says]]... [[Hello]]!"
** "[[Hair (theatre)|The Earth says]]... [[Hello]]!"
* [[Signature Style]]: Tim Burton likes to create a contrast between places of wonder, which are bright and colorful, and mundane places, which are dark and dreary. In the context of a Roald Dahl adaptation, it works.
* [[Signature Style]]: Tim Burton likes to create a contrast between places of wonder, which are bright and colorful, and mundane places, which are dark and dreary. In the context of a Roald Dahl adaptation, it works.
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