Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 2005 fantasy film directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp. Based on the 1964 Roald Dahl children's novel of the same name, the film also stars Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket and is the second film adaptation of the book. It is also the second film based on a Roald Dahl novel worked on by Tim Burton after producing James and the Giant Peach. It became a box office success and received positive critical reaction, receiving an Academy Award nomination at the 78th Academy Awards for Best Costume Design. The film was released in North America on July 15, 2005 by Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures.

In a chocolate factory, a purple-gloved hand (Willy Wonka's) places five Golden Tickets randomly among hundreds of thousands of Wonka Bars on a conveyor belt, which are then boxed and shipped across the world. Near the factory, Charlie Bucket lives in a small, dilapidated house with his parents and four grandparents. Mr. Bucket provides the only family income by screwing caps on toothpaste tubes at a nearby plant, and family meals consist only of watered-down cabbage soup.

Charlie has long been enthralled with Wonka and his chocolate, so much that he has built a scale replica of his factory entirely out of defective toothpaste caps sneaked home by Mr. Bucket. Grandpa Joe tells Charlie about the time he worked for Wonka, and how Wonka was commissioned by an Indian prince named Prince Pondicherry to build a palace entirely out of chocolate, which promptly melted in the boiling sun after he ignored Wonka's advice to eat it. Plans to rebuild it were curtailed, however, due to problems concerning spies amid Wonka's staff, who stole his secret recipes and sold them to rival candymakers. As a result, Wonka fires all of his workers and shuts down the factory, which later inexplicably reopens despite no new employees being hired.

The next day, Charlie hears about a contest on television: five Golden Tickets have been placed in five random Wonka Bars worldwide, and the winners will be given a full tour of the factory as well as a lifetime supply of chocolate, while one ticketholder will be given a special prize at the end of the tour. Wonka's sales subsequently skyrocket, which causes a rise in cavities and boosts toothpaste sales. With the upswing in profits, the toothpaste factory decides to automate and replaces its workers (including Mr. Bucket) with faster-working machines.

The first four tickets are found fairly quickly. The recipients are Augustus Gloop, a gluttonous German boy; Veruca Salt, a very spoiled English girl; Violet Beauregarde, a competitive gum chewer, and Mike Teavee, an arrogant television and video game addict. The bar Charlie gets for his birthday does not contain a ticket, and Grandpa Joe secretly gives Charlie a silver dollar for a second bar, which also comes up empty. After overhearing that the final ticket was found in Russia, Charlie finds a ten-dollar note half-buried in the snow while on his way home, and he purchases a Wonka Bar at a newsstand. At the exact moment it was revealed that the Russian ticket was forged, Charlie discovers the real fifth ticket inside the wrapper. After the euphoria dies down, he tells his family that he had received an offer of $500 for the ticket and that the money was more important. Grandpa George rebuffs Charlie by telling him that money is commonplace but there are only five Golden Tickets in the world.

Charlie and the other ticket holders are greeted by an automated puppet show that sings "The Wonka Welcome Song" and presents an unoccupied throne; fireworks then set the puppets alight and cause them to melt and break down. Wonka first appears as having mingled into the group to watch the show as well. During the tour, each of the bad children disobey Wonka's orders after being tempted by something related to their individual character flaws, and suffer various consequences: Augustus is sucked up a chocolate extraction pipe after falling into a chocolate river from which he was drinking, Violet is turned into an oversized blueberry after chewing unstable three-course-meal gum, Veruca is pushed into a garbage chute by worker squirrels after she tries to take one as a pet, and Mike is shrunk with a teleporter that he uses on himself. The Oompa-Loompas sing a song of morality after each elimination. The children leave the factory with an exaggerated characteristic or deformity related to their demise.

Wonka then invites Charlie to come live and work in the factory with him, and reveals that the purpose of the Golden Tickets and the tour was to make the "least rotten" child the heir of his factory. The only catch is that Charlie must leave his family behind, because Wonka believes family is a hindrance while a chocolatier needed creative freedom. A subplot told in flashbacks involves Wonka's dentist father, Dr. Wilbur Wonka, denying his son candy because of the potential risk to his teeth. After sneaking a leftover piece of chocolate from the fireplace (which Dr. Wonka had previously used to burn all his Halloween candy), he is instantly hooked. He ran away from home to follow his dreams of becoming a chocolatier.

As his family is the most important thing in his life, Charlie refuses Wonka's offer. His family is living contently a while later, as his father gets a new job at the factory maintaining the machine that had originally replaced him. However, Wonka is too depressed to make candy the way he used to, and turns to Charlie for advice. Charlie decides to help Wonka confront and reconcile with his estranged father; Wonka finally realizes the value of family, while his father learns to accept his son for who he is, and not what he does. In the end, Charlie has the chocolate factory, and Wonka has patched up with his family.

• Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka, the highly imaginative but disturbing and antisocial chocolatier who invites five children to a tour of his factory. Throughout the film, he has flashbacks recalling his damaged relationship with his dentist father. During these flashbacks, he is played by Blair Dunlop.
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• Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket, a soft-spoken and optimistic child who lives in poverty with his parents and two sets of grandparents, who share the same bed. He idolizes Willy Wonka and his factory enough to create an elaborate model of both made entirely out of deformed toothpaste caps. Despite Wonka's offer to have Charlie abandon his family in favor of becoming Wonka's heir, Charlie declines out of his love for his own family, but later accepts when Wonka changes the offer in allowing them to come.
• David Kelly as Grandpa Joe, Charlie's lively grandfather. He once worked for Wonka in his small corner store, and now accompanies Charlie in his tour of the factory.
• Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Bucket, the mother of Charlie Bucket. Because of the Buckets' financial situation, she can only afford to use cabbage to make all of her family's meals.

• Noah Taylor as Mr. Bucket, the father of Charlie Bucket. He works for the Smilex Toothpaste factory until he is laid off to make way for a new machine.
• Missi Pyle as Mrs. Scarlett Beauregarde, the mother of Violet and her chaperone during the tour of the factory.
• James Fox as Mr. Salt, Veruca's father and chaperone during the tour of the factory who runs a profitable nut business.
• Deep Roy as the Oompa-Loompas, a cocoa bean-loving people from Loompaland who agree to work in Wonka's factory in exchange for all the cocoa beans they could ever want. All the Oompa Loompas except one (see Geoffrey Holder) were voiced by film composer Danny Elfman.
• Christopher Lee as Dr. Wilbur Wonka, Willy's dentist father, who forbids his son from consuming candy.
• Adam Godley as Mr. Teavee, Mike's father and chaperone during the tour of the factory. He is also a high-school geography teacher, which is annouced in a scene of the film.
• Franziska Troegner as Mrs. Gloop, Augustus' mother and chaperone during the tour of the factory.
• AnnaSophia Robb as Violet Beauregarde, a competitive girl who has an obsession with bubble gum.
• Julia Winter as Veruca Salt, a child who is spoiled by her rich parents.
• Jordan Fry as Mike Teavee, a brash and hyperactive, but gifted, child who is addicted to television and video games, but who hates chocolate. He used a very complex mathematical formula which resulted in his being required to buy only one Wonka bar to win his Golden Ticket.
• Philip Wiegratz as Augustus Gloop, a gluttonous German child who is always seen eating something.
• Liz Smith as Grandma Georgina, a senile grandparent of Charlie.
• Eileen Essell as Grandma Josephine, another of Charlie's grandparents.
• David Morris as Grandpa George, a pessimistic grandparent of Charlie who doesn't believe Charlie will go to the factory.
• Geoffrey Holder as the Narrator, who is revealed to be an Oompa-Loompa at the end of the film.