‘Wonka’ First Reactions Reward Timothée Chalamet as ‘Infinitely Charming,’ ‘Intoxicating’ and ‘Pitch-Good’

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 immediate 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 about 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 forged consists of Calah Lane, Keegan-Michael Key, Matt Lucas, Sally Hawkins, Rowan Atkinson, Olivia Colman and Hugh Grant.

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Movie critic Courtney Howard wrote “Wonka” is “a successful confection, full of excellent quantities of appeal, whimsy & poignancy, powered by pure creativeness & brilliant, 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 observe,” Lussier wrote, though he added: “The film round him isn’t pretty much as good nevertheless it’s fulfilling. The story & tone struggle in opposition to one another leaving it a bit muddled. And but it’s full of pleasure & the songs are pleasant.”

“‘Wonka’ is an excellent charming delight powered by an distinctive & pitch-perfect efficiency from Timothée Chalamet,” wrote movie author Perri Nemiroff. “It could get fairly foolish and there’s a couple of plot factors which are a tad on the skinny aspect, 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 convey a prequel movie to the massive display screen. Experiences surfaced over time that Donald Glover, Ezra Miller and Ryan Gosling have been being courted to play a brand new model of Willy Wonka, nevertheless it was solely Timothée Chalamet who bought the provide for King’s musical. And Chalamet didn’t even need to audition. King told Rolling Stone earlier this yr 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 provide as a result of he’s nice and he was the one particular person in my thoughts who might do it,” King stated. “However as a result of he’s Timothée Chalamet and his life is so absurd, his highschool musical performances are on YouTube and have lots 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 achieved faucet dancing in highschool and he was like, ‘I’d fairly like to indicate individuals I can do this.’”

Chalamet responded to this news on the “Wonka” world premiere crimson carpet in London with laughter, saying, “That wasn’t solely what bought me the half. He additionally preferred the opposite motion pictures I did!”

“Wonka” opens in U.Okay. theaters on Dec. 8, adopted by its U.S. launch on Dec. 15. Take a look at extra first reactions under.

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