YMMV / Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

• Accidental Nightmare Fuel: The inconsistent animation and constant reaction shots can genuinely be unnerving, and especially Wonka's at the very end.◊
• Ass Pull: The movie keeps the 1971 film's ending reveal that the "Mr. Slugworth" Charlie meets was actually Mr. Wilkinson, one of Wonka's employees that was sent to test the children, but this perfectly fine twist from the original movie is rendered completely nonsensical in this one due to Slugworth having a much more prominent role in the plot. Instead of the stoic and mysterious figure he was in the original, Slugworth is portrayed as a cackling madman and even keeps up this villainous façade with Tom, Jerry, and Tuffy ^note Which is not helped by the fact Tuffy also works for Wonka, and would surely know about this fake Slugworth and his role in Wonka's plan when he could have easily explained to them that Charlie wasn't in danger and sent them on their way. The movie's attempts to explain Slugworth's actions here end up falling flat and simply raise even more questions.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • Slugworth's deranged rendition of "I Want It Now" does nothing outside of dropping a double helping of Mythology Gag and to cement him as being Obviously Evil. It is the only one of its kind in the movie. ^note That being said its presence here may be less jarring to viewers who have seen some like them in other WB direct-to-tv movies and/or realize they themselves are a Mythology Gag of sorts.
  • The tunnel scene was already a BLAM in the original movie, but the scene with Willy's monologue as performed by Tuffy, complete with the word "hell" still intact, counts.
• Bile Fascination: Some people watch it just to see how bad the overall concept of the film and Off-Model animation is and how much Narm it has.
• Broken Base: First this is the latest in the series of Tom and Jerry movies that has been operating with a sharp divide for years. Some detractors are prone to wondering how the series continues to exist and consider its continued existence an unwelcome presence. On the other hand, many of the fans who regularly support it are generally happy and feel most of the hate is confined to a Vocal Minority.^note Very similar thoughts are echoed on its sibling entity the Scooby-Doo Direct-to-Video Film Series as both show how sharp divides still exist over HB properties to this day. Now it is crossing over with a franchise that has its own Broken Base stirred on by the fact the original writer Roald Dahl fueled the fire whether the first movie lived up to the book or was a disgrace to it.^note You can read more about their fights on their own pages from before this movie existed These volatile issues on their own when combined made this trope's fires rage, and really it had zero chance of it not happening from the start.
• Captain Obvious Reveal: No matter how much this film tries to pretend otherwise, anyone who's seen the original movie knows that Slugworth was Good All Along.
• Catharsis Factor: Unlike other adaptations of the source material, Veruca Salt's father is last shown yanking her by the ear out the door, heavily implying that he finally plans to discipline his daughter for her attitude.
• Designated Hero: Tom as per usual, as unlike Jerry who at least goes out of his way to help others, Tom generally has to be pushed into doing something or another while mostly being there to start fights with Jerry for inserting their usual antics. It reaches a head where at the very end he shrinks Mr. Wilkinson and Spike and shoves them in a drawer for a personal bit of vengeful spite, with even Jerry admonishing him for the act, only for Tom to attack him for it.
• Don't Shoot the Message: The film admittedly has a good message on not being greedy, which applies to both Tom and Jerry, as well as the Willy Wonka characters. However, with how everything is set up, it's rather clunky and muddled.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Even the film's harshest critics will admit that the Fraudulent Fifth Golden Ticket Winner (none other than Droopy) was one of the few legitimately funny characters.
• Fridge Brilliance:
  • This movie shows Slugworth as having personally visited every one of the contest winners. So of course when Droopy had forged the copy in Paraguay, he wouldn't be there - cause he knows where the contest winners will be!
  • Violet's no longer chewing gum when she enters the factory - of course. She ate candy in the candy room - so she spat it out, or Wonka told her to spit it out.
  • Why does Wonka seem to care more about a cat? Tuffy. Since one of his employees is a mouse, he's far more bothered about the intruding predator than another mouse. Plus, as he mentioned - the factory has to be decontaminated, cause cats do shed.
• Fridge Logic: In the first version of "I Want it Now," Slugworth does a lot of Scary Symbolic Shapeshifting. Yet, despite all the different forms he takes, such as a snake, a rat, and a cockroach, he never once transforms into a slug. It's right there in his name!
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The "Slugworth transforms into various things on a brick wall" presentation of the first version of "I Want it Now" could easily explain how the AI that generated Willy's Chocolate Experience came up with the Unknown, the evil chocolate maker that lives in the walls.
• Memetic Molester: Willy Wonka already had this reputation thanks to the previous films, moreso with the 2005 adaptation. If anything, this movie cements Wonka's reputation as this trope further thanks to the unnerving, devious smiles he makes at the end of the movie.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "Quality animation" (with or without /s to denote Sarcasm Mode)
  • Violet's expression when she gives Wonka the golden ticket has been passed around a lot, too. Pretty much all of the surreal facial expressions are this, particularly Wonka's degenerated smiles at the very end.
  • The film's premise has inspired a lot of parodies involving Tom and Jerry taking part in more absurd crossover ideas of WB classics, such as Tom and Jerry in Goodfellas and Tom and Jerry in 2001 A Space Odyssey.
  • The film being referred to as "DeviantArt: The Movie", due in no small part to the Off-Model animation and blatant fetish-pandering going on at numerous points. It's also worth noting that there's a community of people on DA that are REALLY into making crossover fan fictions that consist in shoving their OCs or characters from other media into a movie, tagging along with the protagonist.
  • "Original Movie, Do Not Steal!"^note This is a pun on the trailer's announcement of the work, which brands it as an "all new original movie."
• Narm:
  • Wonka's Freak Out at the end was intended to be scary. And it would be if it not quoted word-for-word (with the addition of taking a cat into the factory) from Gene Wilder's Freak Out in the 1971 movie with someone obviously trying (and failing) to sound like Gene Wilder. Even the "You lose! Good DAY sir!" line sounds like it came out of a school play.
  • The scene at the end where Wonka hands ownership of the factory over to Charlie is an iconic Heartwarming Moment in the original film, but here, after saying his line, Wonka makes a truly bizarre smile◊ that's silly enough to immediately ruin the scene.
• Nightmare Fuel: Some people who consider this version of the boat scene to be even more batshit insane than the original due to the unsettling way Tuffy speaks the infamous lines from from the original movie (part of which were in the book too) and the creepy faces that feel rather off.
• Nightmare Retardant: The animators didn't exactly translate the infamous boat scene from the original movie into animation well. What makes it less scary is that it's Tuffy giving Wonka's monologue from the original scene. Quite ironic, considering the rest of the movie has some Accidental Nightmare Fuel thrown in, thanks to the animation. The faces that Tuffy makes during the scene, on the other hand...
• Older Than They Think:
  • A lot of complaints have been waged at the Limited Animation of making a lot of background characters not being animated. This section of the audience seems oblivious that this had been done in multiple Tom and Jerry and Scooby Doo projects as Retraux to mimic the style of Hanna Barbera's style at the end of the MGM years and in their own studio years.
  • Mr. Salt's finally standing up to Veruca, which was one of the few additions to the story that got a widely positive reaction, actually originated in the 2005 film adaptation, albeit it occurred at a different point in that film's storyline (the scene of the other four children leaving the factory, which was Adapted Out in the 1971 version and not restored here).
• One-Scene Wonder: The kid who interrupts Charlie's class, due to being drawn in a way that looks like he's posing.
• Questionable Casting: The voice casting choices for the four brats raised a few eyebrows, considering none of the actresses were known for voicing characters in that age range — or in the case of the ones who voice Augustus and Mike, male characters, period. That being said, Emily O'Brien (Veruca) was actually considered to have given one of the better performances in the film.
• So Bad, It's Good: The Off-Model Limited Animation, bizarre concept and Tuffy's tunnel scene as a whole makes this film hilarious by some.
• So Okay, It's Average: Others see it as being harmless and not as big a deal. There is also an echo from a lot of the fans of the series in general who find it one of the weaker entries but not anything worth blowing up over.
• Special Effect Failure:
  • Somehow, Violet's transformation into a blueberry looks worse than it did in the original film, to say nothing of the 2005 version. For some bizarre reason the animators decided to replicate the effect of shining a spotlight on Violet's face in animation rather than giving her more blueberry-like colors, and she just ends up looking overweight instead of resembling a blueberry — the animators did at least try to depict her continuing to inflate during the Oompa Loompa song, something that wouldn't have been feasible with the original, but the effect doesn't come across very well due to the scene constantly cutting across to Tuffy, who is given a bunch of lines from the song.
    • Violet's belt doesn't pop off and instead turns blue along with the rest of her.
  • The movie's animation as a whole, thanks to the aforementioned Off-Model animation and the CGI of the Fizzy Drinks Room.
• Squick:
  • Violet's gum-chewing. Yes, that is part of her character (that Roald Dahl thought it was gross), but she's also shown playing with her gum and it's still shown when she talks.
  • Veruca's underwear being shown when falling down the chute.
• Tainted by the Preview: The reveal of the trailer sparked some change in anticipation of this movie despite it having been known about on the internet for over a year before that with far less hostile responses. A possible reason for this is that the trailer was what first revealed it to be a near Shot-for-Shot Remake of the '71 Willy Wonka movie. So while there were some who had previously been on the fence before, this may have been when they became alienated, especially as that movie is in itself a divide for fans of the book. Or those that were hoping for similar treatment as Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: In relation to the previous movie, Back To Oz had done some damage control by actually mixing in other elements from the Oz books into the MGM film-inspired world. This, coupled with the original title having Charlie's name instead of Wonka's, led to some fans thinking this movie would have mixed more elements from other things than the '71 film. While there are a few, the film mostly plays it straight to the '71 version that already has its own Broken Base in the fandom of the original book. Needless to say, this came off as a disappointment to some and others thought it was just plain lazy on the creators' part.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: The characters' facial expressions as well as many of their caricature-like designs. Yes, even in 2D animation that's not meant to be realistic.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Tuffy's voice is unisex and childish. It sounds somewhere between Kath Soucie's other roles as Phil and Lil from Rugrats.