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Speaker 1: Break the Flick with benosh On ninety six a FM.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Wonka, wonkad.

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Speaker 1: This review might get wonky. I don't know about Wonka.

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Speaker 2: Okay, take us down the candy Lane.

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Speaker 1: Okay. Well, at the start of twenty twenty three, you'd

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Speaker 1: see all these articles around the internet like the most

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Speaker 1: anticipated movies of the year to look forward to, and

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Speaker 1: Barbie was on that list, Oppenheimer was on that list,

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Speaker 1: and Wonka was absolutely on that list. It stars Timitate Chalamay,

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Speaker 1: who's so hot right now in Hollywood. He's dating at

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Speaker 1: Kardashian Jenna. He's dating Kylie Jenner, a billionaire. And also

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Speaker 1: he's not kind of like unlike a lot of people

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Speaker 1: that get into relationships with Kardashian's and not kind of

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Speaker 1: like playing second fiddle, like he's he's famous enough that

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Speaker 1: he can kind of go toe to toe with a

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Speaker 1: letter of fame. And so he was cast to play

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Speaker 1: a young Willie Wonka in this prequel. And now there's

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Speaker 1: been two previous adaptations of roll Dal's famous Charlie and

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Speaker 1: the Chocolate Factory, which I think came out in nineteen

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Speaker 1: seventy one. The first was the one starring Gene Wilder

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Speaker 1: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. And then there was

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Speaker 1: one in two thousand and five, I think, directed by

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Speaker 1: Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp, which it made a lot

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Speaker 1: of money at the box office. I didn't particularly love it,

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Speaker 1: but certainly younger audiences that's what they think was the

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Speaker 1: original Willy Wonker movie.

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Speaker 2: The originals.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the original it's pretty creepy, and they think and

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Speaker 1: they think the original with Gen Wilder is just something

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Speaker 1: that they see in internet memes really, because yeah, the

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Speaker 1: Gene Wilder Wonka internet meme is like it's iconic. But

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Speaker 1: both of those movies were, you know, they're kind of

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Speaker 1: a bit dark, they're a bit creepy.

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Speaker 2: It's meant to be. It's a dark story. It is

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Speaker 2: at the end of the day.

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Speaker 1: It's about a chocolate factory with the worst of health

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Speaker 1: and safety protocols in history, like kids going to that factory.

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Speaker 1: It's been zero days since our last accident. That's a

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Speaker 1: situation and this guy. But this Wonker prequel, it's worth noting,

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Speaker 1: is a prequel of the Gene Wilder movie. So it's

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Speaker 1: not a prequel of the Tim Burton movie. So when

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Speaker 1: you're looking at timoitates Chala May. He's trying to do

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Speaker 1: a young Gene Wilder, and he does an amazing job.

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Speaker 1: Like the great thing about this movie is Chala May's performance.

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Speaker 1: There are some musical numbers which I'll touch on in

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Speaker 1: a minute. And he's got a lovely singing voice, really

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Speaker 1: really really really sweet voice. It's a great talent, and

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Speaker 1: he's an amazing talent, and he's got that whimsy to him.

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Speaker 1: And so he plays this young chocolate tea who arrives

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Speaker 1: in the big city kind of like a London kind

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Speaker 1: of a city, and he has a dream of changing

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Speaker 1: the world one chocolate at a time, very sweet literally

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Speaker 1: and figuratively. And then but his dreams get untracked really

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Speaker 1: quickly by the evil chocolate cartel who run chocolate in

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Speaker 1: this city, and they run it with an iron fist,

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Speaker 1: and they have it. They have a corrupt chief of

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Speaker 1: police played by Keegan Michael Key in their pocket. They

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Speaker 1: pay him off in chocolate to make sure there are

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Speaker 1: no competitors that rise through the ranks. And so they

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Speaker 1: immediately see Timitate Shalamaye's Wonka as a real threat to

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Speaker 1: their business model, and so they arrange with this dodgy

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Speaker 1: landlord played by Olivia Coleman Oscar winner Olivia Colman, who

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Speaker 1: is phenomenal to trick him into signing an accommodation contract

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Speaker 1: that basically sees him becoming her servant, and he's get

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Speaker 1: stuck working in the wash house, can't make chocolate. He's

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Speaker 1: basically a prisoner, and so he's out of the picture.

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Speaker 1: Chocolate cartel is happy, but they didn't bank on Wonka

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Speaker 1: befriending all of the other people who are similarly trapped

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Speaker 1: in the wash house, this sort of assortment of motley characters.

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Speaker 1: There's an accountant, there are all of these people with

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Speaker 1: different skill sets, and they band together to help Wonka

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Speaker 1: get out of the wash house and secretly sneak around

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Speaker 1: town selling his chocolates from like pop up stalls and

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Speaker 1: developing this incredible reputation around the city as being the

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Speaker 1: sort of these magical chocolate maker of renown, to the

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Speaker 1: point where he eventually gets his own shop. So that's

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Speaker 1: basically the premise of the movie. Now, it all sounds

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Speaker 2: The problem.

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Speaker 1: The problem with this film is it's a musical, which

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Speaker 1: is in itself not a problem if the songs are good,

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Speaker 1: and in this case, they're just not They're written by

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Speaker 1: the frontman of the UK band The Divine Comedy, who

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Speaker 1: wrote the theme song for Father Ted. There's a bit

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Speaker 1: of it for transpotters out there. Yeah, and you know,

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Speaker 1: like he's a fine musician and all that, but like

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Speaker 1: musical numbers, as anyone knows if you've been to a

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Speaker 1: musical or watched a musical movie, like, they have to

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Speaker 1: have a bit of pep and pizaz and they have

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Speaker 1: to carry the story forward and they do a lot

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Speaker 1: of heavy lifting.

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Speaker 2: Here, pure imagination. And that's the.

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Speaker 1: Moment that the iconic cinema and these songs are just

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Speaker 1: not that interesting. They're not like it's not like a

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Speaker 1: Lin Manuel Miranda or a Passeck and Paul who did

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Speaker 1: the songs in La La Land. The songs are just

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Speaker 1: honestly duds, even though Timothy shallow May sings them very well.

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Speaker 1: And so and you have lots of these yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: so you have lots of these, lots of these songs

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Speaker 1: when the time could have been better spent with more

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Speaker 1: screen time for Olivia Coleman, who's amazing, more screen time

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Speaker 1: for Rowan Atkinson, who's a dodgy, corrupt priest, more screen

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Speaker 1: time for Hugh Grant. That is actually reflective of how

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Speaker 1: much time he gets in the movie. So you watch

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Speaker 1: the trailer and you think, oh, there's going to be

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Speaker 1: so much Hugh grand But no, there is the best

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Speaker 1: bits the best in the trailer, Like I reckon, he's

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Speaker 1: in it for about five minutes, when I would have

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Speaker 1: happily seen him as a major character who was in

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Speaker 1: there for the whole film. Criminally underused considering how amazing

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Speaker 1: he is Hugh Grant what I was.

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Speaker 2: But which is?

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Speaker 1: Which is all good? Like that? That is all great?

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Speaker 1: So the performances, the performances are all good. The songs

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Speaker 1: really drag the film down. It's also does not have

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Speaker 1: any edge at all, like it is not in any

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Speaker 1: way sort of dark and creepy like the first two movies.

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Speaker 1: It's directed by Paul Kin, great British director who gave

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Speaker 1: us the Paddington movies, which were really really good and

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Speaker 1: extremely sweet family movies. That's what this is. This is

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Speaker 1: a sweet family movie. Adults who go along expecting to

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Speaker 1: find something like the first two probably going to be

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Speaker 1: a bit disappointed. It's going to be like the Cadbury

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Speaker 1: Cadbury Favorite Selection where maybe you get the Turkish delight left.

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Speaker 2: At the end, so not moment you do get.

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Speaker 1: You do get a little bit of candy man and

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Speaker 1: you and you do get a lovely pure imagination moment

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Speaker 1: at the end, which is which is pretty pretty hard

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Speaker 2: All Right, well, how many Pick and Mix.

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Speaker 1: TV? I'm going to give this three so not terrible,

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Speaker 1: not amazing, good family fair for the school holidays, Okay.

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Speaker 2: A medium Christmas movie, just.

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Speaker 1: Stuck up at the candy barn with sugar and you'll.

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Speaker 2: All right, thank you, ben, guys, We'll see you in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Yes, you're sharing us in the right

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Speaker 2: direction this year. My pleasure