Wonka review: Timothée Chalamet is a bit miscast in this otherwise magical Roald Dahl prequel

only works as a prequel to 1971’s if we’ve suffered collective amnesia. Remember how much of the original film is dedicated to the inflicting of Old Testament-style punishments on ungrateful children? Or This new – – certainly doesn’t retain that. Nor does the film incorporate any of the morbid psychedelia of the Wilder movie’s tunnel scene, which most people forget includes a shot of a chicken being decapitated.