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In cinemas now<\/strong><\/p>\n American star Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet hits on the perfect blend of pluck and innocence as a wide-eyed young Wonka.<\/p>\n King tips a top hat to Gene Wilder\u2019s confectioner by opening his film with the refrain of Pure Imagination, the near-\u00adperfect song from Wilder\u2019s 1971 musical.<\/p>\n And Chalamet\u2019s charming and tuneful turn is closer to Wilder\u2019s Wonka than Johnny Depp\u2019s creepier version from Tim Burton\u2019s 2005 film.<\/p>\n We meet the dreamer on a boat singing A Hatful Of Dreams, one of six witty new songs from The Divine Comedy\u2019s Neil Hannon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Wonka\u2019s spent the past seven years collecting exotic \u00adingredients (his soft centres were harvested in \u201cthe mallow marshes of Peru\u201d) for his magical sweeties.<\/p>\n But his plan to open his first shop in a fantasy city are hamstrung by a villainous chocolate cartel (Paterson Joseph, Mathew Baynton and Matt Lucas) and a corrupt cop (Keegan-Michael Key).<\/p>\n Then he\u2019s tricked into years of hard labour in the laundry of Mrs Scrubbit (Olivia Colman) and teams up with an orphan called Noodle, played by Calah Lane (the US child star, not the Liver Birds writer).<\/p>\n Before King turned his attentions to a marmalade-scoffing bear, he was the unhinged genius who directed the BBC sitcom The Mighty Boosh.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n And there\u2019s a very British sense of humour \u2013 a touch of The Goon Show and perhaps a sprinkling of The Goodies \u2013 in the film\u2019s surreal diversions, which include run-ins with a chocolate-stealing Oompa Loompa (a digitally shrunken Hugh Grant) and a heist at a cathedral where Rowan Atkinson\u2019s corrupt cleric commands 500 chocoholic monks.<\/p>\n It\u2019s the humour that ties the story together.<\/p>\n This new family classic could be this Christmas\u2019s \u201cgolden ticket\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] In cinemas now American star Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet hits on the perfect blend of pluck and innocence as a wide-eyed young Wonka. King tips a top hat to Gene Wilder\u2019s confectioner by opening his film with the refrain of Pure Imagination, the near-\u00adperfect song from Wilder\u2019s 1971 musical. And Chalamet\u2019s charming and tuneful turn is …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[765],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}