As a man who works in a grocery store just a few minutes walk from an elementary school, I can confirm that going to buy candy is indeed the first thing kids will do when school is out.
What an evil thing to do, trying to lure in children and make them spend all their money on candy so they can't afford their well earned rations of tobacco ...
@@KairuHakubiIndeed! If they have money to come in and buy candy, you need to raise grocery prices until they stop! Children buying candy is a gauge of how much money the parents have left that you haven't extorted yet!
@@KertaDrake I feel like you meant to reply to a different, more sarcastic post of mine about economic systems I'm just saying, since when do kids have money? outside of tv shows.
@@KairuHakubi Some kids get allowances for doing chores around the house. Depends on how old they are and the parents, but I see nothing wrong with kids having a few dollars to buy candy, especially if their parents taught them to save money for things they want like mine did.
8:12 That was my favorite bit in the movie: "I am now telling the computer EXACTLY what he can do with a lifetime supply of chocolate!" It still makes me laugh. 😅
I recall there being a gag in the book where a scientist and engineer tried making a metal detector/sorting machine that detects gold instead and would pick out the bar containing the Golden Ticket. The machine instead tried to take out the gold fillings in its creators' teeth.
The Master: “This time I have bested you Doctor! I shall rule…all!” The Doctor: “YOU GET NOTHING!!” The Master: “What!? How?…what have you done?!” The Doctor: “YOU LOSE!!” The Doctor: “You can’t do this to me!” The Doctor: “GOOD DAY SIR!!”
Thanks for pointing out the chemistry experiment problem. It might have worked if it was supposed to be like an algebra equation where they have to figure out what it is, but seems a bit advanced for those kids.
As a kid, I just thought it was what was done. As I grew up, I was wondering if the Teacher was trying to create a drug or something...or maybe preparing to make himself a widow. That was sketchy AF
Here's a fun fact, Slugsworth was dubbed over by the late Walker Edmiston, who was the voice of Fire Lord Azulon in Avatar and Inferno in Transformers. And how ironic is it that the Fire Lord shared a voice with an Autobot that turned into a fire truck and put out fires.?
Oh gods. I've been a watcher and fan for coming on 15 years and it's great to see both a call-out to us oldies but mostly to see you back on form. With life as it's been I'm glad to see Chuck back doing something he either loves doing or is really good at faking.
11:08 As one who recently got into the Lorcana TCG with its setup of special “Enchanted” cards, man oh man this point of the review hits way too close to home.
A search for something for a Willy Wonka review resulted in ending up on a page for the Russian Monster Lavrentiy Beria? Now that is a classic rabbit hole search. You never know where you are going to end up, ESPECIALLY by where you started. Been there myself plenty of times. On an unrelated note, I wasn't really aware of Beria until the movie Death of Stalin came out. Then I looked up the psychotic beast of a man. That movie was hilarious, but boy was that background dark
I donate to your patreon, I love the old style stuff and I love the new style stuff. I wouldn't have properly watched Farscape, Star Trek, Stargate or Blakes 7 if not for your videos. It's nice to see the old comedic style back again.
I'm disappointed that he didn't mention that the teacher changed Charlie's two Wonka bars to two hundred because he was too crap to think to add a point zero in front.
Your bit at the end makes me think of Tom Baker as the Doctor. His clothes are odd, but it feels natural for the character, who in this version puts on a mad facade to hide a brilliant mind.
I think the reason why Wonka's outfit doesn't stand out is because it matching the background. Like the stucco wall he stands in front of at the end of this review. His outfit matches it (where it should actually clash). Both are old fashioned styles that work. And they look perfect on Wilder!
Funny note... "Charlie is the only one that bought it for the joy of it..." You do recall the scene you just played was Charlie opening up the chocolate bar and just dropping it all over the ground, yes?
Something interesting that I don't think Chuck touched on is that the Paraguayan with the fake ticket is represented by a photo of Martin Bormann, the Party Minister of the Nazi Party. He was the most important Nazi still unaccounted for at the time, and many Nazis famously fled to South America at the end of the war. The real Bormann's bones were found in a German construction site about a year after this movie released.
5 continents. A hundred billion people living on the planet. A 70's-era computer that seems to have free will. Loompa Land. I think this movie doesn't take place on earth.
Whilst the first 40 minutes of the film is admittedly slower paced and more forgettable than the first part, but there’s a lot of great stuff in it, such as the Candyman song and that small bit ominous scene where Charlie looks at the factory through the gates. There’s also a lot of great comedy, like the science teacher and the man who has to tell the computer exactly what it can go with a lifetime’s supply of chocolate.
5:40 How dare you impersonate me like this by doing something I do constantly. 7:50 Er... I mean, surely he meant the five _inhabited_ continents. since nobody's gonna be buying tickets in Antarctica, and the division between Europe and Asia is pretty damned imaginary. Africa too if you get technical about it. 13:35 I think the reason for that is that fashion has flattened considerably. Much more uniform now, and even the old rigid literal uniforms are kind of evaporating. fashion trends are no longer very distinctive. In the days of suits being everyday wear, they had a billion variants, you could make a character look like an overgrown kid if his suit was a size too small like Pee-Wee, or extravagant if it's huge and oversized like a zoot suit. But then suits became businesswear, worn purely "because you have to" and became quite rigid, uncreative, and dull. And after some time, the places in which you're forced to wear them dwindled.
I love the theory that Slugworth planted the golden tickets. They where never shipped out at all.... Means the children where hand picked as well, curious that.
5 continents, 100 billion people. Maybe this whole time the movie was taking place in an alternate timeline or crazy parallel universe. Though I suppose the title orange and green people might have given that away.
Can't help but think the reason why that family is poor is all because Grandpa Joe (and maybe the rest of those old people) have been deliberately scamming those idiot parents. The four of them probably showed up one day and said "we're your long lost parents!" and these idiots who can't even look over their own son were probably like "come on in! we'll push these beds together tonight..." thinking they'd leave the next day.
You mention Wonka's costume at the end of the video and you put your finger on something that bothered me in my childhood: it was when the first two seasons of modern Doctor Who were broadcast and I remember when I saw during the broadcast being disappointed in David Tennant's official costume leaning (to my eyes) more to the classic doctor costumes instead of the more dressed down style that Chris Eccleston had.
And yet that's one of the reasons I like it. I liked Eccleston's portrayal and his outfit matched his personality, but even Peter Davidson's outfit had more flair to it.
Eccleston is the first regeneration after the War Doctor, so he's still haunted by the Time War, which explains why he's dressed darker and more conservatively.
@@NobodyC13 Well, before Eccleston and the _Doctor Who_ folks burned bridges (as in, when he was actually on the show) Nine _was_ the War Doctor. Mind, I _liked_ Hurt's take on the character and rather wish we'd gotten to see more, but still.
Why in the world would they combine North and South America and not Europe and Asia? Heck, I'd argue that by that logic Africa should be combined with Eurasia.
@@mikegates8993 it’s cultural: the occident (Europe), orient (Asia), the Islamic empires (Africa), new world west (America), and new world east (Oceana). It’s just as arbitrary as the 7-continent system, but it is the one most often acknowledged outside of North America.
And to be clear, the reason people from the US separated the northern and southern halves of the American continent was because they started calling themselves “Americans” as a national identity. Many languages have a word for “United-States-ian” which provides the distinction.
@@myriadmediamusings Eurasia IS a single continent. It doesn't magically separate at the Urals. The separation is political (and to a lesser extent cultural).
As a man who works in a grocery store just a few minutes walk from an elementary school, I can confirm that going to buy candy is indeed the first thing kids will do when school is out.
What an evil thing to do, trying to lure in children and make them spend all their money on candy so they can't afford their well earned rations of tobacco ...
with what money?
@@KairuHakubiIndeed! If they have money to come in and buy candy, you need to raise grocery prices until they stop! Children buying candy is a gauge of how much money the parents have left that you haven't extorted yet!
@@KertaDrake I feel like you meant to reply to a different, more sarcastic post of mine about economic systems
I'm just saying, since when do kids have money? outside of tv shows.
@@KairuHakubi Some kids get allowances for doing chores around the house. Depends on how old they are and the parents, but I see nothing wrong with kids having a few dollars to buy candy, especially if their parents taught them to save money for things they want like mine did.
8:12 That was my favorite bit in the movie: "I am now telling the computer EXACTLY what he can do with a lifetime supply of chocolate!" It still makes me laugh. 😅
I recall there being a gag in the book where a scientist and engineer tried making a metal detector/sorting machine that detects gold instead and would pick out the bar containing the Golden Ticket.
The machine instead tried to take out the gold fillings in its creators' teeth.
3:34
Great narrator, fantastic use of my time.
Gene Wilder is the ONE American I'd have accepted completely as the Doctor. Like he has that utterly insane energy of Tom Baker and the like
The Master: “This time I have bested you Doctor! I shall rule…all!”
The Doctor: “YOU GET NOTHING!!”
The Master: “What!? How?…what have you done?!”
The Doctor: “YOU LOSE!!”
The Doctor: “You can’t do this to me!”
The Doctor: “GOOD DAY SIR!!”
Now that you mention it, I'm sad we never got an episode where Tom Baker's Doctor runs into his Timelord brother, who is played by Gene Wilder.
@@henkman00 A.I. might be all worth it if we can make this scene happen.
@@henkman00 "Life! Life! Do you hear me?! Give my creation LIIIIIIIFE!!!"
Dalek: ''You will be EXTERMINATED!!''
The Doctor: ''help...police...murder...''
I for one am really enjoying Chuck's borderline experimental phase.
2:10 If I were a cripplingly poor boy, I would be inside, catching as much of the free candy as I can.
Thanks for pointing out the chemistry experiment problem. It might have worked if it was supposed to be like an algebra equation where they have to figure out what it is, but seems a bit advanced for those kids.
It also had a decent chance of exploding or otherwise inflicting major injuries.
As a kid, I just thought it was what was done. As I grew up, I was wondering if the Teacher was trying to create a drug or something...or maybe preparing to make himself a widow. That was sketchy AF
Here's a fun fact, Slugsworth was dubbed over by the late Walker Edmiston, who was the voice of Fire Lord Azulon in Avatar and Inferno in Transformers. And how ironic is it that the Fire Lord shared a voice with an Autobot that turned into a fire truck and put out fires.?
"The good kind, not the one covered in bees."
*My God.*
Also, while Daniel Robitaille might _bee_ evil, I still prefer him over this song.
Oh gods. I've been a watcher and fan for coming on 15 years and it's great to see both a call-out to us oldies but mostly to see you back on form. With life as it's been I'm glad to see Chuck back doing something he either loves doing or is really good at faking.
11:08
As one who recently got into the Lorcana TCG with its setup of special “Enchanted” cards, man oh man this point of the review hits way too close to home.
I absolutely love your sense of humor. I could listen to you all day! Happy to see your upload.
A search for something for a Willy Wonka review resulted in ending up on a page for the Russian Monster Lavrentiy Beria? Now that is a classic rabbit hole search. You never know where you are going to end up, ESPECIALLY by where you started. Been there myself plenty of times. On an unrelated note, I wasn't really aware of Beria until the movie Death of Stalin came out. Then I looked up the psychotic beast of a man. That movie was hilarious, but boy was that background dark
1:24
If you aren't a coward you can taste the other one too.
I donate to your patreon, I love the old style stuff and I love the new style stuff. I wouldn't have properly watched Farscape, Star Trek, Stargate or Blakes 7 if not for your videos. It's nice to see the old comedic style back again.
You come in and you get some good costume analysis. Nice.
A combination of funny bullshit and complex analysis. Yup that's why I tune in every week!
I'm loving this return to more jokes.
'Condemned chewing gum'
I still remember getting detention in school because I was chewing gum.
Did the Candyman song get auto muted by RUclips?
Oh, no, but I had to mute it to appease the bots. I thought about singing it myself, then decided I did enough damage already.
I missed comedy Chuck! Great to have jackassery again.
I'm disappointed that he didn't mention that the teacher changed Charlie's two Wonka bars to two hundred because he was too crap to think to add a point zero in front.
Dang it! The Oompa-Loompa's are going rogue! LEAVE CHUCK ALONE!
i'll take things i never expected chuck to cover for 6 alex
I literally just watched this film 2 days ago, what timing!
Your bit at the end makes me think of Tom Baker as the Doctor. His clothes are odd, but it feels natural for the character, who in this version puts on a mad facade to hide a brilliant mind.
8:47 Charlie’s mother went to the same school as Charlie, which explains the family’s living conditions.
I also never noticed the tobacco/gum contradiction
Please the Omppa Loopa break up to clips forever even for the Star Trek review.
I think the reason why Wonka's outfit doesn't stand out is because it matching the background. Like the stucco wall he stands in front of at the end of this review. His outfit matches it (where it should actually clash). Both are old fashioned styles that work. And they look perfect on Wilder!
Never change Chuck! :D
I like your sense of humor.
Oh yeah, isn't Chuck a teacher in his day job?
He was; don't know if he still is.
Funny note...
"Charlie is the only one that bought it for the joy of it..."
You do recall the scene you just played was Charlie opening up the chocolate bar and just dropping it all over the ground, yes?
Something interesting that I don't think Chuck touched on is that the Paraguayan with the fake ticket is represented by a photo of Martin Bormann, the Party Minister of the Nazi Party. He was the most important Nazi still unaccounted for at the time, and many Nazis famously fled to South America at the end of the war. The real Bormann's bones were found in a German construction site about a year after this movie released.
5 continents. A hundred billion people living on the planet. A 70's-era computer that seems to have free will. Loompa Land. I think this movie doesn't take place on earth.
Whaddaya mean? North America, South America, Africa, Eurasia, Australia. Sure, there's Antarctica, but nobody lives there, so it doesn't count.
Whilst the first 40 minutes of the film is admittedly slower paced and more forgettable than the first part, but there’s a lot of great stuff in it, such as the Candyman song and that small bit ominous scene where Charlie looks at the factory through the gates. There’s also a lot of great comedy, like the science teacher and the man who has to tell the computer exactly what it can go with a lifetime’s supply of chocolate.
I was expecting a swing at Colin Baker at the end of this part. :D
5:40 How dare you impersonate me like this by doing something I do constantly.
7:50 Er... I mean, surely he meant the five _inhabited_ continents. since nobody's gonna be buying tickets in Antarctica, and the division between Europe and Asia is pretty damned imaginary. Africa too if you get technical about it.
13:35 I think the reason for that is that fashion has flattened considerably. Much more uniform now, and even the old rigid literal uniforms are kind of evaporating. fashion trends are no longer very distinctive. In the days of suits being everyday wear, they had a billion variants, you could make a character look like an overgrown kid if his suit was a size too small like Pee-Wee, or extravagant if it's huge and oversized like a zoot suit. But then suits became businesswear, worn purely "because you have to" and became quite rigid, uncreative, and dull. And after some time, the places in which you're forced to wear them dwindled.
I love the theory that Slugworth planted the golden tickets.
They where never shipped out at all....
Means the children where hand picked as well, curious that.
Yay!
5 continents, 100 billion people. Maybe this whole time the movie was taking place in an alternate timeline or crazy parallel universe. Though I suppose the title orange and green people might have given that away.
9:09 Hit By a Bus? Having the Luck of Darby Allin (Professional Wrestler)?
I think poem guy looked in the basement.
Can't help but think the reason why that family is poor is all because Grandpa Joe (and maybe the rest of those old people) have been deliberately scamming those idiot parents. The four of them probably showed up one day and said "we're your long lost parents!" and these idiots who can't even look over their own son were probably like "come on in! we'll push these beds together tonight..." thinking they'd leave the next day.
Love this movie #DisneyDiva
5 Continents is not incorrect. Antarctica is an archipelago after all and Eurasia is one landmass.
You mention Wonka's costume at the end of the video and you put your finger on something that bothered me in my childhood: it was when the first two seasons of modern Doctor Who were broadcast and I remember when I saw during the broadcast being disappointed in David Tennant's official costume leaning (to my eyes) more to the classic doctor costumes instead of the more dressed down style that Chris Eccleston had.
And yet that's one of the reasons I like it. I liked Eccleston's portrayal and his outfit matched his personality, but even Peter Davidson's outfit had more flair to it.
Eccleston is the first regeneration after the War Doctor, so he's still haunted by the Time War, which explains why he's dressed darker and more conservatively.
@@NobodyC13 Certainly a logical theory, and makes sense.
@@NobodyC13 Well, before Eccleston and the _Doctor Who_ folks burned bridges (as in, when he was actually on the show) Nine _was_ the War Doctor.
Mind, I _liked_ Hurt's take on the character and rather wish we'd gotten to see more, but still.
Gene Wilder was a treasure.
Most of the world considers there to be five continents-America is a single continent and Antarctica isn’t one.
Weird. Why is Americas 1 but Africia and Asia's are 2? I could accept the logic but then there would be 4. (America, Asia, Australia, Antarctica)
@@simplegarak America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceana
Why in the world would they combine North and South America and not Europe and Asia? Heck, I'd argue that by that logic Africa should be combined with Eurasia.
@@mikegates8993 it’s cultural: the occident (Europe), orient (Asia), the Islamic empires (Africa), new world west (America), and new world east (Oceana). It’s just as arbitrary as the 7-continent system, but it is the one most often acknowledged outside of North America.
And to be clear, the reason people from the US separated the northern and southern halves of the American continent was because they started calling themselves “Americans” as a national identity. Many languages have a word for “United-States-ian” which provides the distinction.
Grandpa Joe is not a good person. Not a new thought but it will do to make an additional comment to boost the video visibility
I got it. They are only counting populated continents, and are being honest.
1 Africa
2 Australia
3 North America
4 South America
5 Eurasia
I always never understood why Eurasia was ever a thing. I mean it’s not as if the two America continents were ever combined into one catchall term.
@@myriadmediamusings Because "continent" is a super vague description and any definition you give can be challenged.
@@myriadmediamusings Eurasia IS a single continent. It doesn't magically separate at the Urals. The separation is political (and to a lesser extent cultural).
@@lynngreen7978 The cultural separation largely exists because of mountains and desert making part of the area extremely difficult to traverse.
Most of the world recognises 5 continents: Asia, Europe, America, Oceana and Africa