‘Wonka’ Is Equal Parts Sugar, Corn Syrup, and Artificial Flavoring, With Nothing Added To Make Viewers Care
It’s telling that the filmmakers use the wondrous ballad from the 1971 film, ‘Pure Imagination,’ as a refrain at the start of their movie and as a proper finale.
Does the famous fictional chocolatier cooked up by Roald Dahl, Willy Wonka, need an origin story? Are viewers dying to know how he came to learn his craft, why it became his passion, and when he opened his factory? The new movie, “Wonka,” seems to think so as it focuses on a 20-something Wonka, with a couple of flashbacks to when he was a little boy.
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