History YMMV / WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Despite some of the more dated special effects, the set design is still a [[{{Pun}} treat]] for the eyes, especially the Chocolate Room and the Inventing Room, which Julie Dawn Cole described as being "the kind of place that only existed at Disneyland." It also led to one of the most memorable gags in which Wonka picks a flower, drinks out of it like a tea cup and then eats it (it was actually wax, which Gene Wilder spat out as soon as the director yelled "Cut!").

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Despite some of the more dated special effects, the set design is still a [[JustForPun treat]] for the eyes, especially the Chocolate Room and the Inventing Room, which Julie Dawn Cole described as being "the kind of place that only existed at Disneyland." It also led to one of the most memorable gags in which Wonka picks a flower, drinks out of it like a tea cup and then eats it (it was actually wax, which Gene Wilder spat out as soon as the director yelled "Cut!").

** The Wonkamobile scene where the Teavees freak out over being covered in the carbonation bubbles from the said vehicle's pipes can be this. All the actors involved in this scene ended up with severe skin irritations from the soap foam used in the scene.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: The reason why it has earned a reputation as a StonerFlick.

'''Mr. Salt''': Industrial waste, that. ''You've ruined your watershed Wonka; it's polluted.''\\

** Wonka's off-hand reference to "Vermcious Knids" being one of the predators which live in Oompa-Loompa Land might sound like the movie's creators cribbed the name from the initial threat faced by Wonka, Charlie, and the Bucket family in ''Literature/CharlieAndTheGreatGlassElevator''. However, ''Great Glass Elevator'' wasn't released until the year after this movie, likely meaning that the name actually originated in the script for this film, and Dahl liked it enough to re-use in the sequel book.

** After Wonka plays the musical lock, Mrs. Teevee says "Rachmaninoff" smugly, which is met by a confused double-take by Mr. Salt. The joke is that the music is actually from the overture to Mozart's opera ''Le nozze di Figaro'' and Mrs. Teevee is a KnowNothingKnowItAll, a rather obscure reference to non-musicians/opera fans.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Augustus Gloop's dire op's fate, the boat ride...

* AudienceColoringAdaptation: The film has become so iconic [[CharlieAndTheChocolateParody and parodied]] that outside of the U.K. -- and ''especially'' in the United States -- the novel has suffered AdaptationDisplacement. This is why Creator/TimBurton's [[Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory 2005 adaptation]] is so polarizing, as it is sometimes seen as a poorly-done remake of the film rather than a faithful retelling of the novel. There are actually [[AdaptationOverdosed many other adaptations of it out there]], but old-time fans tend to bristle at any telling that doesn't slavishly follow the lead of the original film, never mind that said tellings are usually TruerToTheText ([[Theatre/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory the 2013 stage musical]] was heavily retooled for its 2017 Broadway run to work in more film-specific material for this reason). [[DisownedAdaptation Dahl himself disowned the film]][[note]]albeit on a rather short-sighted decision after the film version didn't do so well upon initial release[[/note]], so he likely wouldn't be happy about this at all. Some of the changes were "corrected" in the 2005 version -- the Oompa-Loompas changing back from orange-faced, green-haired clowns to dark-skinned jungle natives -- but others were not.

* AudienceColoringAdaptation: The film has become so iconic [[CharlieAndTheChocolateParody and parodied]] that outside of the U.K. -- and ''especially'' in the United States -- the novel has suffered AdaptationDisplacement. This is why Creator/TimBurton's [[Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory 2005 adaptation]] didn't age well, as it is widely seen as a poorly-done remake of the film rather than a faithful retelling of the novel. There are actually [[AdaptationOverdosed many other adaptations of it out there]], but old-time fans tend to bristle at any telling that doesn't slavishly follow the lead of the original film, never mind that said tellings are usually TruerToTheText ([[Theatre/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory the 2013 stage musical]] was heavily retooled for its 2017 Broadway run to work in more film-specific material for this reason). [[DisownedAdaptation Dahl himself disowned the film]][[note]]albeit on a rather short-sighted decision after the film version didn't do so well upon initial release[[/note]], so he likely wouldn't be happy about this at all. Some of the changes were "corrected" in the 2005 version -- the Oompa-Loompas changing back from orange-faced, green-haired clowns to dark-skinned jungle natives -- but others were not.

* {{Moe}}: While Charlie was already adorable in the book, the 1971 film amps his cuteness up by making him a [[TheWoobie sympathetic woobie]] who despite everything he goes through, he still remains a kind and selfless NiceGuy [[spoiler:who [[EarnYourHappyEnding earned his happy ending]]]].

* SweetnessAversion: Its more "light-hearted" moments which are often subjected to saccharine songs about hope, candy and Oompa-Loompas, especially the Candyman song at the beginning of the film and "Pure Imagination" when the guests enter the factory for the first time. Its bright colors and visuals don't help either, which clash harder with the BlackComedy both the film, [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory the book]] and (to a lesser extent) [[Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory the 2005 film]] had.

* {{Moe}}: While Charlie was already adorable in the book, the 1971 film amps his cuteness up by making him a [[TheWoobie sympathetic woobie]] who despite everything he goes through, he still remains a kind and selfless NiceGuy [[spoiler:who [[EarnYourHappyEnding earned his happy ending]].

* SweetnessAversion: Has its moments but special mention goes to the Candy Man song at the start of the movie, specifically, the line, "Who can take a rainbow, wrap it in a sigh? Soak up all the sun and make a strawberry lemon pie?". If that line doesn't give you diabetes, nothing will.

* TheWoobie: Charlie, of course. Poor, comes from a broken family, can barely afford the chocolate that gets him in the factory, well-meaning but (seemingly) admonished by Wonka for the Fizzy Lifting Drinks incident. [[EarnYourHappyEnding He does win out in the end, though]].

* "Charlie is a [[ChickMagnet ladies' man]]".[[labelnote:Explanation]]Because DeniseNickerson (Violet's actress) and JulieDawnCole (Veruca's actress) both had a crushes on Peter Ostrum (Charlie's actor), it became very popular for fans to joke about Charlie being a ChickMagnet.

* AuthorsSavingThrow:
** The 30th Anniversary DVD originally did not include an option to watch the movie in widescreen. Fans petitioned and implored Warner Bros. to rectify this, and they released a widescreen version just in time for the holidays.

** For those who were put off by Charlie being a UselessProtagonist who [[WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing didn't too too much to win Wonka's chocolate factory]], the 1971 movie fixes this by having him undergo a test to see if he's worthy of the factory or not.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The 30th Anniversary DVD originally did not include an option to watch the movie in widescreen. Fans petitioned and implored Warner Bros. to rectify this, and they released a widescreen version just in time for the holidays.

** Is Charlie really any better than the other kids and does he deserve to get the factory at the end? He commits the exact same transgression they do, disobeying Wonka's orders in trying the fuzzy lifting drinks. The only difference between Charlie and the other children is that he managed to get out of trouble on his own and before the others found him, even though Wonka called him out in the end. And although he gives his gobstopper back to Wonka rather than sell it to Slugworth, who's to say the other children wouldn't have done the same if they had the opportunity? While we see that Charlie is better behaved than the other children, there isn't much that makes him more worthy of inheriting the factory than his competitors, he's just a bit luckier and more clever than them, traits that Wonka never brings up.

** The man from Paraguay who gets caught counterfeiting a Golden Ticket is represented by a picture of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Bormann Martin Bormann]], the former chairman of the Nazi Party, who at the time was widely believed to be living under an assumed name in South America.[[note]]The remains of Bormann - who never left Berlin and was buried there - were discovered in 1973. In retrospect, a better choice would have been Josef Mengele, who ''had'' escaped to South America, where he was living under an assumed name until his death in 1979.[[/note]]

* {{Squick}}: The chocolate river is this to many people, who find that [[SpecialEffectsFailure it looks more like muddy water]], or even, as one character comments, sewage, instead of delectable chocolate. The rest of the film's cast felt bad for Michael Bollner, who played Augustus Gloop, since he had to film numerous takes falling into the river and getting sucked up the pipe. Bollner himself admitted the experience was "disgusting". The irony is that they used real chocolate and cream in the water to try and make it look realistic, which obviously didn't photograph very well.

* {{Squick}}: The chocolate river is this to many people, who find that [[SpecialEffectsFailure it looks more like muddy water]], or even, as one character comments, sewage, instead of delectable chocolate. The rest of the film's cast felt bad for Michael Bollner, who played Augustus Gloop, for having to film numerous takes of falling into the river and getting sucked up the pipe. Bollner himself admitted the experience was "disgusting". The irony is that they used real chocolate and cream in the water to try and make it look realistic, which obviously didn't photograph very well.

* {{Squick}}: The chocolate river is this to many people, who find that it looks more like dirty, red-brown water than delectable chocolate. One character even thinks it looks like sewage. This was apparently true for the actors who made the film, with many of them feeling bad for Michael Bollner (the actor who played Augustus Gloop) for having to film numerous takes falling into the river and getting sucked up the pipe. Bollner himself admitted the experience was "disgusting". The irony is that they used real chocolate and cream in the water to try and make it look realistic, which obviously didn't photograph very well.

* {{Squick}}: The chocolate river is this to many people, who find that it looks more like dirty, red-brown water than delectable chocolate. This was apparently true for the actors who made the film, with many of them feeling bad for Michael Bollner (the actor who played Augustus Gloop) for having to film numerous takes falling into the river and getting sucked up the pipe. Bollner himself admitted the experience was "disgusting". The irony is that they used real chocolate and cream in the water to try and make it look realistic, which obviously didn't photograph very well.

* {{Squick}}: The chocolate river is this to many people, who find that it looks more like dirty, reddish water than chocolate. This was apparently true for the actors who made the film, with many of them feeling bad for Michael Bollner (the actor who played Augustus Gloop) for having to film numerous takes falling into the river and getting sucked up the pipe. Bollner himself admitted the experience was "disgusting". The irony is that they used real chocolate and cream in the water to try and make it look realistic, which obviously didn't photograph very well.