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3	''Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory'' is Franchise/TomAndJerry's 13th [[DirectToVideo direct to DVD]] movie, released in 2017. It provides an adaptation of [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory the 1971 movie]] based on the book ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory''... with Tom and Jerry included [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg for good measure]]. You can view the trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs-tu4fj4zA here]].
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5	Due to some [[AshcanCopy complicated studio politics]] on the part of Creator/WarnerBros, it ended up stalling the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryDirectToVideoFilmSeries'' for a time, and also resulted in Creator/RoaldDahl's estate revoking the film rights to ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', along with other Dahl stories, from WB and giving them to Creator/{{Netflix}}, though WB did acquire the rights to do a prequel to the original film some time before the release of the ''Tom and Jerry'' one in the form of ''Film/{{Wonka}}'', starring Creator/TimotheeChalamet as the title character, released on Christmas 2023.
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7	!!''Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'' (in addition to many of the [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory source novel]] and [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory the source film]]) provides examples of:
8	* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: The Fizzy Drinks room, despite ''everything'' else being done in 2D animation.
9	* AdaptationalDyeJob:
10	** Subverted. In the original movie, Violet was brunette, but in this movie, Violet is a redhead like in the original book.
11	** Played straight with Willy Wonka, who is brunette instead of dirty blond. This is accurate to the 2005 movie, in which Johnny Depp's Wonka had brown hair.
12	* AdaptationExpansion: Combined with CompressedAdaptation. Extra scenes and shots in this version actually add scenes with Slugworth, in addition to featuring Veruca and her father escaping the furnace. As well as a new scene where Charlie accidentally leaves his Golden Ticket at home and Tom and Jerry embark on a mad chase to get the ticket to him before he is let in.
13	* AdaptationalExplanation: While it was subtly hinted at in the book and other adaptations, with Wonka seeming unsurprised when Charlie is the last remaining child on the tour, [[spoiler:this version has Tom and Jerry overhearing Slugworth - actually an employee of Wonka's - saying that Charlie will "get exactly what's coming to him", explicitly confirming that Wonka had already decided before the tour even began that Charlie would be his chosen successor.]]
14	* AdaptationInducedPlotHole:
15	** Wonka's rant at Charlie and Grandpa Joe maintains most of the same dialogue from the scene in the original film. This includes Wonka mentioning that they violated the contract Charlie signed upon entering the factory, despite this retelling omitting the scene where Charlie and the other children were made to sign said contract.
16	** Slugworth is given [[AscendedExtra a significantly larger role]] as the film's BigBad, [[spoiler:even though he's still revealed to be [[GoodAllAlong an actor who works for Wonka]]. In order to make him an active antagonist to the heroes,]] Slugworth continues to act as a sinister figure not only in front of Charlie and the other ticket winners, but also when interacting with Tom and Jerry, and even Tuffy (an Oompa Loompa), [[spoiler:even though he has no reason to keep his facade going when the tour has already started]]. The film eventually tries to explain this, but it winds up creating several {{Voodoo Shark}}s instead.
17	** In the original film, Grandpa Joe uses the money Charlie gives him for tobacco to buy a Wonka bar. The question as to how he got the Wonka Bar despite being bedridden is answered here, with Joe sending Tom and Jerry to get it. However the scene where Charlie gives Joe the money, [[NoSmoking and all mentions of tobacco]] are cut.
18	** For the purpose of usual ''Tom & Jerry'' slapstick, Spike and Slugworth are shown going through more humourous version of the brats' fates (aside from Veruca's). The movie shows the metamorphic punishments being more easily reversed in these instances with Spike easily being juiced out of blueberry form and both being reversed from Wonka Vision (which especially contradicts what was said in the book and implied in the first film to be a one way path). It makes one wonder why Violet and Mike need the Juicing Room and Taffy Puller.
19	* AdaptationalJerkass: Violet is more openly disrespectful towards both her father and Wonka in this version, presumably so that her fate doesn't come across quite so harsh as it did in the 1971 film.
20	* AdaptationalVillainy:
21	** Slugworth seems to be this, as he plays much more of a role in this movie, [[spoiler: [[CaptainObviousReveal except that]] it turns out he was [[SubvertedTrope never a villain after all.]]]]
22	** [[spoiler: Mike and his mom are implied to have taken Slugworth's deal]].
23	* AdaptedOut: A few minor characters get this treatment, most notably all the parents (except for Mrs. Bucket) who don't go into the factory.
24	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Averted - Tuffy is too short to be an Oompa Loompa, but the other Oompa Loompas don't seem to hold it against him, and this doesn't stop Wonka from employing him.
25	* AmusingInjuries: This is a Tom and Jerry flick. Of course it will have this, and of course Tom will be on the receiving end.
26	* ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare: Tom and Jerry are both shown to like chocolate. In reality, chocolate is poisonous to cats, and while it's not ''as'' bad for mice, too much of it can cause them health problems.
27	* ArtShift: The animation during Slugworth's take of "I Want it Now", as mentioned below.
28	* AscendedExtra: Slugworth plays a much bigger role here than in the original.
29	* AvoidTheDreadedGRating: Perhaps the only discernible reason as to why the word "hell" is left intact in Tuffy's rendition of the tunnel scene monologue. Ironically, being a direct-to-DVD production, it was never given an official rating.
30	* BalloonBelly: Briefly happens to Tom and Jerry upon gorging themselves with candy in the Chocolate Room.
31	* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Since Charlie shared food with them, Tom and Jerry do whatever they can to help him throughout the movie.
32	* BerserkButton: Don't bring ''cats'' into the factory.
33	* TheCameo: Ticket forger Alberto Minoleta is none other than WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}}.
34	* CompressedAdaptation: Ironically also going with AdaptationExpansion.
35	* ChekhovsGun: The box of chocolate bars that Tom and Jerry stole early in the movie [[spoiler: contains the golden ticket Charlie won]].
36	* DarkReprise: Of "I want it now"...''before'' the original version, which was already sung by a SpoiledBrat.
37	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Upon learning there's a cat inside his factory, Willy Wonka says the one(s) responsible for it will be "permanently banished from the premises forever. Permanently".
38	* DependingOnTheArtist: The animators who handled the five children all seem to have been going for very different approaches, with Charlie, Veruca, and Augustus (for what little we see of him) drawn in a much more naturalistic manner, whereas Violet and to a lesser extent Mike are animated in a way that's much more cartoonish, bordering on outright DerangedAnimation.
39	* DerangedAnimation: Disregarding all the OffModel faces, there are a few legitimate examples:
40	** Early on, when Slugworth sings "I Want it Now" he turns into a chalk drawing and... [[DisneyAcidSequence insanity ensues....]]
41	** Sure enough, when Tuffy takes Tom and Jerry on the boat, it goes into this.
42	* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:After escaping the furnace with his daughter and Jerry, Mr. Salt has enough of Veruca's whining and roughly drags his daughter out by the ear, with the implication that he's going to punish her much further.]]
43	* DullSurprise: Oh yes, and not just because Wonka is quite blasé about the harm the kids are getting into...
44	* EarnYourHappyEnding: Charlie, [[spoiler:after giving up the everlasting gobstopper, learns that Wonka's "you get nothing!" rant was just a SecretTestOfCharacter, and Charlie not only passed it, but he wins the entire factory! And Wonka informs Charlie (as well as Tom, Jerry and Tuffy) that Slugworth actually works with him and his name is ''Mr. Wilkinson''.]]
45	* EndOfAnAge: This was the last Tom and Jerry movie to be done in digital ink since "The Magic Ring", as the next direct-to-video movie would be done in the same animation as ''WesternAnimation/TheTomAndJerryShow2014''. It's also currently the last Tom and Jerry movie to be based on other existing properties.
46	* ExactWords: Slugworth is shown ranting that "soon the factory will have a new owner" and "Charlie Bucket will get what he deserves". [[spoiler:He's talking about Charlie inheriting the factory.]]
47	* FelonyMisdemeanor:
48	** Wonka informs the Buckets that he has to sterilize the ''entire'' factory because a cat entered. He doesn't even imply that he has allergies or anything - making it seem rather weird he is so bent out of shape about Tom being in there, especially since an orange mouse already works at the factory and a literal dog helps deliver the candy.
49	** So Tom and Jerry steal a box of Wonka chocolates, and Spike will chase them to the ends of the earth to bring them to justice.
50	* FishEyes: Violet can be seen with these when introducing herself to Wonka.
51	* ForegoneConclusion: Whereas the book and previous adaptations left it to interpretation as to whether Wonka had any preferences at the start of the tour as to who would ultimately win the grand prize, this one makes it much clearer that Wonka (or, at the very least, [[spoiler:Slugworth/Wilkinson]]) had earmarked Charlie as the preferred winner from the very start, judging by Slugworth's speech to Spike early on.
52	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
53	** Actually, something viewers might miss entirely - Spike, early on, is shown to be delivering Wonka bars. [[spoiler: Yet two-thirds of the way in, he calls Slugworth "boss"]]. As it turns out, [[spoiler: Slugworth was GoodAllAlong]], and even before that, he [[spoiler: says Charlie Bucket will get what's coming to him and the factory will have a new owner - Charlie]].
54	** [[spoiler: When Droopy is shown to have forged the ticket in Paraguay? Note who ''isn't'' there...]]
55	* FreezeFrameBonus: Freeze at ''just'' the right time? You'll see some absolutely ''hilarious'' animation goofs.
56	* FurryConfusion: Animals are shown to hold jobs in this universe, but in the background we see a dog that looks like Tyke on a leash at one point.
57	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Aside from the hilarious faces in the background, Tom and Jerry [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this, intentionally trying to dodge the characters.
58	* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler: Slugworth (AKA MR. Wilkinson) and Spike]].
59	* {{Homage}}: The entire movie is one big Homage to the 1971 movie.
60	** Also of note Mr. Salt showing restraint to Veruca and Violet's hair color are ones specifically to the book that weren't in or changed in the 71 movie.
61	** The scene on the chocolate conveyor belt is more than likely an homage to the opening of the 2005 film as well as Willy Wonka being a brunette. [[note]]This is consistent with how the previous Tom and Jerry movie had mixed Oz sources into a world mostly based on the most famous movie[[/note]].
62	* HonorBeforeReason: Tom and Jerry get the box of chocolate bars to help Charlie's struggling family, but Charlie just can't accept something that was stolen.
63	* IdiotBall: Much of the conflict in Tom and Jerry's subplot could have easily been avoided if Slugworth[[spoiler:, or rather, Mr. Wilkinson, had simply explained to them that he actually worked for Wonka and Charlie wasn't in any danger]]. It's understandable for him to act so blatantly sinister with Charlie and the other ticket winners [[spoiler:due to giving them a SecretTestOfCharacter]], but he has no reason whatsoever to give the same treatment to a random cat and mouse that shouldn't even be on the premises.
64	* InflatingBodyGag: Of course, like the source material, Violet Beauregarde's transformation into a blueberry.
65	** Fizzy Lifting drinks do this to Tom and Spike for a chase scene. And after the tour in the inventing room, yet before the tour in the room of Fizzy Lifting drinks, Spike alone ends up turning in to a blueberry himself, and his transformation was a bit more impressive than Violet's.
66	* InSpiteOfANail: As lampshaded by [[http://www.cracked.com/article_26060_5-crossover-episodes-that-led-to-chaos-insanity.html this]] Website/{{Cracked}} article, the movie is essentially just an animated remake of ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'', and Tom & Jerry being added to the story changes ''absolutely nothing'' to the plot of said movie. All events still play out the way they did in the original.
67	* LimitedAnimation: Many of the extra characters in the background ''never'' move. Even the ''main characters''. As per many of these movies some of this is {{Retraux}}.
68	* MeatOVision: At the beginning, Tom is so hungry he sees Jerry as a Wonka bar.
69	* MoodWhiplash: Constantly. Famous scenes are used as back drops for classic ''Tom and Jerry'' slapstick. Especially the scene where [[spoiler:Slugworth is turned to bits using a machine.]] which ''immediately'' leads into the famous "You signed the contract, you lose" scene.
70	* MythologyGag:
71	** During the fantasy sequence with Slugworth Tom and Jerry turn into the chalk cat and mouse designs from "Designs on Jerry" and the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTales'' opening.
72	** Similarly, Droopy had one short in which he was a bullfighter in Mexico, thus (partially) explaining why he's now living in Paraguay.
73	* NightmareFace: In ''spades'' due to the OffModel animation.
74	* NoOSHACompliance: True, this ''is'' Willy Wonka we're talking about, but just ''how'' is that these people don't get killed?
75	* NotAsYouKnowThem: Slugworth is presented as an absolute villain during his scenes with Tom and Jerry. While this is technically true of the original film Slugworth is still modeled after Günter Meisner who turned out to be not Slugworth at all and was never that villainous to the capacity Tom and Jerry presents him.
76	* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: [[spoiler: When it is revealed that Slugworth is really Mr. Wilkinson]].
77	* PassingTheTorch: Wonka gives his entire factory to Charlie, and to Tom, Jerry and Tuffy as well.
78	* PoorCommunicationKills:
79	** Tom and Jerry are prompted to break into the factory after they overhear Slugworth talking to Spike, seemingly explaining a sinister plot to kill Charlie and take over the factory. [[spoiler:He's actually talking about Charlie himself inheriting the factory from Wonka]].
80	-->'''Slugworth:''' At the end of the day, Charlie Bucket will get exactly what's coming to him, and this chocolate factory will have a new owner!
81	** It's implied at the end that Tuffy and the other Oompa Loompas were also not aware that [[spoiler:Slugworth was actually [[GoodAllAlong an imposter hired by Wonka]]]]. If Tuffy had known this, he could have easily explained the situation to Tom and Jerry instead of helping them interfere with the tour.
82	* PoppingButtons: Subverted. Violet's belt doesn't pop off as it did in the original film, and in fact suddenly changes from red to blue due to a coloring mistake.
83	* {{Retraux}}: Twofer:
84	** The Limited Animation aspect had been a recurring aspect of these late phase Tom and Jerry movies as MGM did during their late phase as budgets slashed.
85	** Secondly the Charlie characters being more cartoony and caricature-like appears to be an attempt at making the MGM style meet the Quentin Blake style used to illustrate Dahl books. It becomes jarring though that this makes them clash next to Tom, Jerry and company.
86	* RunningGag: Things getting into peoples' eyes.
87	* SecretTestOfCharacter:
88	** True to the original, this movie explains that Slugworth approached ''everyone'' who won the contest. [[spoiler: Which makes sense how he would know ahead of time as they are interviewed on TV...]]
89	** [[spoiler: The fact that Charlie and Joe came forward about Tom and Jerry being in the factory with them could also be this - Wonka could have been more angry at Charlie and Joe for not only stealing the Fizzy Lifting Drinks, but ''also'' about the fact that Joe ''lied'' to him about the cat in the factory]].
90	* SeriousBusiness: When Wonka opens up the factory, people ''run out of school''.
91	* ShotForShotRemake: Many shots and details mirror those of the original 1971 movie, to almost ludicrous extremes. They still keep the egg-laying geese in lieu of the squirrels, emulate the effect of Violet's face turning blue (via a blue light) from the original movie, and even keep [[FunnyBackgroundEvent the candy shop owner accidentally clocking a kid with his countertop gate as he opens it]] during its version of "The Candyman".
92	* SoundtrackDissonance: The scene where Grandpa Joe is singing focuses more on the slapstick between Tom and Jerry than the actual song.
93	* TastesLikeFriendship: Charlie befriends Tom and Jerry by offering them one of his two loaves of bread when they were starving.
94	* TravelingPipeBulge: Happens when Veruca, Mr. Salt, Tom, Jerry and Tuffy slide down the garbage chute. Bafflingly averted with Augustus when he gets sucked up the pipe in the Chocolate River, which he is explicitly shown to be too big for.
95	* TruerToTheText: Violet's hair is closer to red as it was in the original book. Something both film versions changed. Also, aspects of Violet's inflation are closer to the text, with her hair turning blue along with her skin, and still having a pair of arms and legs poking out of a giant blue ball; her body.
96	* VillainSong: Slugworth gets two. He sings "I Want it Now" when Charlie meets him, then he sings it again, [[TwoScenesOneDialogue while Veruca Salt sings it]].
97	* VoodooShark: [[spoiler: Why was Slugworth so preoccupied with getting rid of Tom and Jerry? Because he was concerned they'd interfere with the plan to make Charlie the new owner of the chocolate factory! Why did he try to kill Tom and Jerry instead of removing them from the premises? Why didn't he explain to anyone, let alone Tom and Jerry, that he's an employee? Why Charlie Bucket of all the kids? None of these subsequent questions are really explained.]]
98	* WeCanRuleTogether: Slugworth makes an offer like this to Charlie, suggesting they become "kings of the candy world" with their two gobstoppers.

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