Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 0085391328391 Format: Full Screen, NTSC, Color Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publication Date: 1994 Publisher: Warner Home Video Running Time: 100 unknown-units Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 1971 Sales Rank: 58505
Editorial Review:
Product Description: Imagine yourself in a world of chocolate. It all starts when the mysterious mogul of candydom, Willy Wonka, offers a grand prize of a guided tour of his factory-and a lifetime supply of sweets-to five lucky people who uncover golden tickets inside five chocolate Wonka Bars. WILLIE WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY is probably the best film of its sort since The Wizard of Oz. It is everything that family movies usually claim to be, but aren't: Delightful, funny, scary, exciting, and, most of all, a genuine work of imagination. . . . The story, like all good fantasies, is about a picaresque journey. Willie Wonka is the world's greatest chocolate manufacturer, and he distributes five golden passes good for a trip through his factory and a lifetime supply of chocolate. Each pass goes to a kid, who may bring an adult along, and our hero Charlie (a poor but honest newsboy who supports four grandparents and his mother) wins the last one. The other four kids are hateful in one way or another, and come to dreadful ends. . . . Kids are not sugar and spice, not very often, and they appreciate the poetic justice when a bad kid gets what's coming to him.
