Timothée Chalamet’s highly-anticipated “Charlie and the Charlie Manufacturing facility” prequel musical “Wonka” has lastly been unveiled to critics and leisure journalists, and the primary reactions are calling it a “successful confection” and “an instantaneous vacation traditional.”
“Wonka,” directed by “Paddington” and “Paddington 2” filmmaker Paul King, casts Chalamet as a youthful iteration of the well-known chocolatier. The movie is ready years earlier than Wonka opens his world-renowned chocolate manufacturing facility and follows the younger man as he fights to open his first store. The supporting solid consists of Calah Lane, Keegan-Michael Key, Matt Lucas, Sally Hawkins, Rowan Atkinson, Olivia Colman and Hugh Grant.
Movie critic Courtney Howard wrote “Wonka” is “a successful confection, crammed with good quantities of attraction, whimsy & poignancy, powered by pure creativeness & vibrant, nimble musical numbers. Timothée Chalamet is a charisma manufacturing facility. His full committal is intoxicating. Hugh Grant in distinctive IDGAF mode.”
Gizmodo senior reporter Germain Lussier heaped reward on Chalamet, calling him the rationale alone to see the movie. “He’s infinitely charming & a blast to look at,” Lussier wrote, though he added: “The film round him isn’t nearly as good but it surely’s satisfying. The story & tone combat in opposition to one another leaving it a bit muddled. And but it’s crammed with pleasure & the songs are pleasant.”
“‘Wonka’ is a brilliant charming delight powered by an distinctive & pitch-perfect efficiency from Timothée Chalamet,” wrote movie author Perri Nemiroff. “It may possibly get fairly foolish and there’s a number of plot factors which are a tad on the skinny facet, however that couldn’t cease such an impossibly candy movie with a hefty & very efficient dose of sincerity from warming my coronary heart.”
Warner Bros. is behind “Wonka” and has lengthy needed to deliver a prequel movie to the massive display. Stories surfaced over time that Donald Glover, Ezra Miller and Ryan Gosling had been being courted to play a brand new model of Willy Wonka, but it surely was solely Timothée Chalamet who bought the supply for King’s musical. And Chalamet didn’t even need to audition. King told Rolling Stone earlier this 12 months that he was a Chalamet “stan” and thus knew the actor had the singing and dancing chops required to play Wonka.
“It was a straight supply as a result of he’s nice and he was the one particular person in my thoughts who might do it,” King mentioned. “However as a result of he’s Timothée Chalamet and his life is so absurd, his highschool musical performances are on YouTube and have tons of of hundreds of views. So I knew from stanning for Timmy Chalamet that he might sing and dance rather well.”
King continued, “I knew that was in his arsenal, however I didn’t know the way good he was. Once I spoke to him he was fairly eager. He’d executed faucet dancing in highschool and he was like, ‘I’d fairly like to point out individuals I can do this.’”
Chalamet responded to this information on the “Wonka” world premiere pink carpet in London with laughter, saying, “That wasn’t solely what bought me the half. He additionally favored the opposite films I did!”
“Wonka” opens in U.Ok. theaters on Dec. 8, adopted by its U.S. launch on Dec. 15. Take a look at extra first reactions under.
