History YMMV / CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory

* VindicatedByHistory / VindicatedByCable: A box-office disappointment when initially released, it found its audience through TV and home video, becoming the 1970s equivalent of ''TheWizardOfOz''. (Curiously enough, RogerEbert's original review outright praised it as being the best kids' film since ''Oz''!)

!!Specifically the 2006 film

* {{Woolseyism}}: Mike Teevee received an update from a television addict obsessed with Westerns to an videogame-playing technology nerd, an image children of the day can better relate to.
** ... which has the side effect of making his song ''completely meaningless'', as it's still about television.
** Especially since Mike's flaw isn't television ''or'' video games; it's being a dickish, violent little know-it-all with no imagination.
** It could be argued that watching too much T.V. was how he got his attitude and "smarts".

** Also, the puppet show song before the kids enter the factory.
*** To some a CrowningMomentOfFunny, depending on your mileage.
**** Both, for some, ''because'' they're so poorly-designed they're scary.
**** It actually becomes funny when referenced in a BrickJoke involving a very recently opened puppet ward.

** [[FridgeLogic If she was a good nut,]] why would she deliberately go against Willy and her father's warnings and attempt to steal a squirrel anyway?

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Mike or Violet. Mike for being an InsufferableGenius DeadpanSnarker and Violet for being a LittleMissBadass and BadassAdorable, with attitude.

* AuthorFilibuster: The Oompa Loompa songs. Doubles as {{Anvilicious}}.

* CreatorBacklash: Roald Dahl '''hated''' the original movie adaptation of his book, to the point where he refused to allow the movie of the sequel to be made. Incidentally, his widow also said he would have loved the Tim Burton adaptation if he had lived long enough to see it.

* AuthorFilibuster: The Oompa Loompa songs.
** {{Anvilicious}}

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel:
** The freaking ''boat ride song''.
** The possible fates of the naughty children and Wonka's [[PassThePopcorn cavalier attitude]] towards them (e.g. when Veruca falls down the garbage chute, he glibly points out that the incinerator is only turned on every other day). RuleOfFunny allows these to be AmusingInjuries rather than horrific accidents and the children ultimately end up (mostly) unharmed, however, the whole situation seems to be rather macabre.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The tunnel scene. Ironically, probably the movie's most famous scene.

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: Hey, Warner. It's great that you restored ''Willy Wonka'' for its 30th anniversary, and reunited the original children for new DVD bonus features, but why didn't you make a widescreen version? Children's movies deserve releases in their theatrical aspect ratios as well...what's that? You got so many complaints that you'll release a widescreen version this holiday season? Thank you!

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: It's great that you restored ''Willy Wonka'' for its 30th anniversary, and reunited the original children for new DVD bonus features, but why didn't you make a widescreen version? Children's movies deserve releases in their theatrical aspect ratios as well...what's that? You got so many complaints that you'll release a widescreen version this holiday season? Thank you!

* FetishFuel: The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuD_9CSyXYg blueberry scene]] in this film subconsciously spawned many inflation fetishists at an early age.
** Subconsciously? Half the works on DeviantArt are based on that! Wonka could make a mint ([[IncrediblyLamePun No pun intended!]]) selling it as is!
** Hell, there's plenty, but the Wonkavision scene stands out. 1. Microcon. 2. The Oompah dance in this scene. It's all sexual positions! Seriously, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDLkXKQ1Ydo watch it]].

* NightmareFuel: I know this has already been used in the "1970's Film" section of this article. I don't care. Johnny Depp's portrayal of Wonka ''defines. This. Trope.''

** For this Troper, the fact that Wonka was very calm about all the other kid's trails, EXCEPT VIOLET'S. The fact that Willy Wonka was running and hiding for cover made it horrifying (plus all the build-up and new graphics that made it look insanely real), he even begged for Violet to stop chewing the gum- "Hah hah, yeah! '''Spit it out.'''"
** My little sister had to be taken out of the cinema during the squirrel scene. Maybe it was because of that horrendously terrified face Veruca made while millions of vicious rodents crawled all over her body and face, literally knocking her helpless to the ground. (Evil laugh.)

** It could be argued that watching too much T.V. was how he got his attitude and "smarts".
* YourMilageMayVary: Still debate on whether the 1971 version is better or not.
** Depp's performance is under particular scrutiny, particularly his MadScientist / MemeticMolester acting choices. Some people hate it for those reasons. Some people like it... for those reasons.

** Subconsciously? Half the works on DeviantArt are based on that! Wonka could make a mint selling it as is!

**** Every time they enter a vehicle, it ''just happens'' to have the correct number of seats for the ''current'' size of the party...
**** Well he is testing them. They don't seem to move on until at least one child does something stupid.

* EarWorm: Every last song on the soundtrack.

* PuritySue: Charlie, who's a ''saint'' in comparison to his alternate universe self (who was still a good kid, but flawed like a regular child). He's hardly even given a chance to test his character for the first half of the film, unlike his 1971 self who faces the temptation of both the Slugworth's deal and the fizzy lifting drinks.

* PuritySue: Charlie, who's a ''saint'' in comparison to his alternate universe self (who was still a good kid, but still flawed like a regular child). He's hardly even given a chance to test his character for the first half of the film, unlike his 1971 self who faces the temptation of both the Slugworth's deal and the fizzy lifting drinks.

* PuritySue: Charlie, who's a ''saint'' in comparison to his alternate universe self (who was still a good kid, but was still flawed like a regular child). He's hardly even given a chance to test his character for the first half of the film, unlike his 1971 self who faces the temptation of both the Slugworth's deal and the fizzy lifting drinks.

* AdaptationDecay / PragmaticAdaptation: Depending on who you talk to, there were plenty of changes made to the original source, some of them written by Dahl himself before he left the project. Charlie's DisappearedDad, and the replacing of squirrels and nuts with geese and eggs are one that come to mind immediately. Oh, and in the book the Golden Ticket winners were allowed to bring two parents instead of one.
** Wilder's Willy Wonka easily makes up for any decay, though.
** TheOtherWiki once had an article listing many changes made between the book and the films. A copy of it can be read [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Richard_Arthur_Norton_%281958-_%29/Wonka here]].
** On the other hand, the movie made an improvement by making Charlie someone who could be tempted and has some problems with envy despite being a good kid as heart, as opposed to the [[MarySue Gary Stu]] of the book.

* AdaptationDecay: As above, YourMileageMayVary.

* AdaptationDisplacement: The 1971 film is more familiar to many people than the book -- to the point that there were complaints about the 2006 film making stuff up when what it was actually doing was restoring things that were in the book but left out or changed for the 1971 film.

** The whole factory gets rather horrific undertones in Burton's version. The melting dolls and the slowed-down song track deserve a special mention.