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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Kids are not stupid. They are among the sharpest, cleverest, most eagle-eyed creatures on Immortal's Earth, and real little escapes their notice. You may non ingest observed that your neighbor is still using his snow tires in mid-July, but every iv-year-familiar on the block has, and kids pay the same attending to detail when they run to the movies. They don't miss a matter, and they have an natural contempt for shoddy and shabby make. I make this observation because nine out of ten children's movies are stupid, witless, and display scorn for their audiences, and that's wherefore kids hate them. Is that all parents want from kids' movies? That they not have anything bad in them? Shouldn't they suffer something good in them -- some life, imagination, illusion, inventiveness, something to vellicat the imagination? If a movie isn't exit to do your kids any good, why get them watch IT? Just to kill a Saturday afternoon? That shows a insidious kind of contempt for a shaver's creative thinker, I think.

All of this is preface to a simple argument: "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Manufacturing plant" is probably the advisable film of its assort since "The Virtuoso of Oz." It is everything that crime syndicate movies usually call to Be, but aren't: Delightful, funny, scary, exhilarating, and, most of every last, a genuine work of imagination. "Willy Wonka" is such a surely and wondrously spun fantasy that information technology works on all kinds of minds, and IT is fascinating because, like all standard fantasy, IT is fascinated with itself.

It's supported the well-best-known Roald Dahl children's book, and it was supported by the Friend Oats Company as an try out in providing high-quality family entertainment. It succeeds. It doesn't cut corners and rifle for cheap shortcuts like Disney. IT provides a fantastic cast (Gene Wilder as the compulsively distrustful chocolate manufacturer, Jack Albertson as the back old grandfather), a topnotch production, and -- I sustenance approach back to this -- genuine imagination.

The story, like all honorable fantasies, is about a dishonest journey. Willy Wonka is the world's greatest chocolate manufacturer, and he distributes Little Phoeb golden passes good for a trip through his factory and a lifetime supply of chocolate. Each hand down goes to a kid, WHO may bring an fully grown along, and our fighter Charlie (a poor but honest newsboy who supports four grandparents and his mother) wins the last one.

The other four kids are abominable in one way or another, and come to dreadful ends. Uncomparable falls into the chocolate lake and is whisked into the bowels of the factory. He shouldn't take in been a pig. Some other is vain enough to try Wonka's new teleportation innovation, and winds up sestet inches tall -- but the taffy-pulling machine will soon have him back to size, right? If these fates seem a little gruesome to you, reflect that completely large children's tales are a little gruesome, from the Brothers Grimm to Alice in Wonderland to Charles Percy Snow White, and certainly not excluding Mother Zany. Kids are not carbohydrate and spice, not very often, and they appreciate the poetic justice when a bad kid gets what's climax to him.