It’s been the biggest summer in years for movie fans, with the Barbie-versus-Oppenheimer cage match soon to be settled and films like Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, No Hard Feelings, Joy Ride, and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny getting viewers into multiplexes and generating buzz online. That looks likely to continue through to Christmas if today’s drop of the first trailer for Wonka, starring Timothée Chalamet and out in theaters December 15, is any indication. Come with me, and you’ll see…everything I thought about the two-and-a-half-minute-long morsel of delight.
- The film aims to unwrap Wonka’s backstory, and we see first glimpses of him traveling via boat to presumably the jungles of Central or South America and laying eyes on a glowing cacao tree. This is important food history many people don’t know—and it frames Wonka as a kind of mixologist, driven by passion and dedication to craft.
- “So quiet up and listen down—nope, scratch that, reverse it.” An immediate reference to the iconic Gene Wilder performance in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, which left undoubtedly huge shoes (and tails and top hat) to fill. It remains to be seen whether Chalamet will utter “the snozzberries taste like snozzberries.”
- We get a glimpse of an early Wonka bar prototype and logo, followed by Olivia Colman plays a shopkeeper with a truly over-the-top Cockney accent.
- Wonka unfolds a tabletop case of potions and tinctures that he uses to concoct his made-to-order chocolates—“How do you like it? Dark? White? Nutty? Absolutely insane?” (Does anyone like white chocolate? Always stunned when they use it on The Great British Bake Off.)
- The head butler from Downton Abbey sternly explains that while many have tried to sell chocolate wherever Wonka lives, “they’ve all been crushed by the chocolate cartel.” We love a David–versus–Big Chocolate story.
- We see him dream of opening a shop, with a smattering of dancing (his bona fides here are already established), and then having a wild-eyed moment of inspiration, teaming up with newcomer Calah Lane.
- Relieved there’s no slowed-down/choir cover song playing in the background here—though my pick would have been a version of Mandy Moore’s “Candy.”
- Mr. Bean as a priest!
- Wonka unveils a swarm of flying Hoverchocs, and we see the members of the chocolate cartel slowly ascending to the top of an elaborate glass-ceiling shopping gallery. Keegan-Michael Key struts in as a frocked and impressively mustachioed copper.
- This is precisely the sort of movie I want to watch during the Christmas season, preferably with a cup of hot chocolate. (I’m sure Wonka marketing is all over this already.)
- We almost see Wonka biting a teacup, another nod to an unforgettable moment from the original film.
- Keegan-Michael in a fatsuit grumbles that he’s gained “about 150 pounds in the last two weeks.” Body-shaming isn’t funny, kids!
- There are flamingos and giraffes running loose, cotton-candy clouds, and Wonka soaring through the sky holding a huge cluster of balloons. A world of pure imagination!
- The legend Sally Hawkins!
- Hugh Grant plays a CGI’d Oompa-Loompa imprisoned in a glass case, playing his little flute and doing his little dance. I am shocked at the disrespect this highly acclaimed actor continues to tolerate—but if anyone knows how to deploy Hugh Grant properly, it’s the director of Paddington 2. I cannot wait to see this film! The suspense is terrible—I hope it will last.
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