Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is an American animated direct-to-video musical comedy film based on the Tom and Jerry theatrical shorts directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera at MGM. It was released by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on July 11, 2017. It was written by Gene Grillo, produced and directed by Spike Brandt, and voice directed by Wes Gleason. The film is the thirteenth in the Tom and Jerry direct-to-video film series.

The film is an animated adaptation the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (which in itself is based on the 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl), with the seemingly pointless addition of Tom and Jerry as characters of the film. It follows the same premise of the prior film, telling the story of young Charlie Buckett, as he and four other children enter a tour inside the whimsical chocolate factory of candymaker Willy Wonka. Apart from the established plot, however, the film is retold from the perspective of Tom and Jerry, whom despite never fitting with the film in question, act as protagonists who play a central role to the other characters.

Due to its overwhelmingly negative reception by critics, it was the last installment of the Tom and Jerry direct-to-video film series until 2022, when it was followed by the release of Tom and Jerry: Cowboy Up!

Characters
Sean Schemmel Mick Wingert
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Tom Cat
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Jerry Mouse
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Bill
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jess Harnell
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Charlie Buckett
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Lincoln Melcher
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Mrs. Buckett
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Kate Higgins
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Grandpa Joe
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jess Harnell
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Grandma Josephine
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Grandpa George
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Grandma Georgina
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Spike
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Spike Brandt
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Mr. Turkentine
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Sean Schemmel
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Winkleman
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Rachel Butera
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Anchorman
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jim Ward
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| German reporter
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jim Ward
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Augustus Gloop
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Rachel Butera
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Mrs. Gloop
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Audrey Wasilewski
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Mr. Gloop
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Arthur Slugworth/Mr. Wilkinson
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Mick Wingert
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Mr. Salt's employee
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Veruca Salt
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Emily O'Brien
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Mr. Salt
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Sean Schemmel
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| American reporter #1
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jess Harnell
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Violet Beauregarde
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Dallas Lovato
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Sam Beauregarde
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jess Harnell
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| American reporter #2
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jeff Bergman
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Mike Teevee
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Lauren Weisman
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Mr. Teevee
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Mrs. Teevee
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Lori Alan
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Alberto Minoleta
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jeff Bergman
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Toodles Galore
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Tyke
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Tuffy
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Kath Soucie
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Oompa Loompas
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jeff Bergman
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Violet Beauregarde
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Dallas Lovato
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Sam Beauregarde
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jess Harnell
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| American reporter #2
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jeff Bergman
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Mike Teevee
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Lauren Weisman
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Mr. Teevee
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Mrs. Teevee
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Lori Alan
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Alberto Minoleta
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jeff Bergman
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Toodles Galore
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Tyke
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Tuffy
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Kath Soucie
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Oompa Loompas
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jeff Bergman
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Toodles Galore
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Tyke
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Tuffy
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Kath Soucie
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Oompa Loompas
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jeff Bergman
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Oompa Loompas
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jeff Bergman
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jeff Bergman

Organizations

 * National Police of Paraguay
 * Slugworth Chocolates Incorporated

Locations

 * Earth
 * United States
 * Wonkaville
 * Slugworth's
 * Bill's Candy Shop
 * Bucket residence
 * Charlie's school
 * Candy Emporium
 * Willy's chocolate factory
 * Chocolate room
 * Inventing room
 * Salt candy mines
 * Montana
 * Miles City
 * Beauregarde's Used Cars
 * Arizona
 * Marbel Falls
 * Teevee residence
 * Kentucky
 * Fort Knox
 * Germany
 * Dusselheim
 * South America
 * Paraguay
 * The Moon
 * Hell (mentioned)

Objects

 * Wonka Bar
 * Wonka's Golden Tickets
 * Everlasting Gobstopper
 * Dinner gum
 * Wonka Vision

Vehicles

 * Wonka Bar vans

Development
The movie was created because Warner Bros. was about to lose the rights to the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory franchise if they didn't make a new film. It ended up backfiring; the Roald Dahl estate was so dissatisfied with the movie they revoked the license from Warner Bros. and gave it to Netflix. Though Warner was still able to greenlight a prequel to the story titled Wonka.

Filming
It was copyrighted in 2017.

Music
The music was composed by Michael Tavera, who also produced all of the songs.

Songs

 * 1) "The Candy Man" - Jess Harnell
 * 2) "I Want It Now!" (Slugworth version) - Mick Wingert
 * 3) "(I've Got a) Golden Ticket" - Jess Harnell and Lincoln Melcher
 * 4) "Pure Imagination" - JP Karliak
 * 5) "Oompa-Loompa-Doompa-De-Do" - Jeff Bergman, Sean Schimmel, and Mick Wingert
 * 6) "Wondrous Boat Ride" - Kath Soucie
 * 7) "I Want It Now" - Emily O'Brien

Crew credits

 * Casting director: Wes Gleason
 * Editors: David Courter, Philip Malamuth
 * Line producers: Monica Mitchell, Kimberly S. Moreau
 * Co-producer: Alan Burnett
 * Executive producer: Sam Register
 * Production managers: Christine Deitner, Bianca Margiotta, Dawn Merkel
 * Assistant production managers: Hanah Lee Cook, Victoria Thornberry
 * Art director: Mike Peraza
 * Character designer: Dan Haskett
 * Prop designers: Shane M. Corn, Lance Falk, Jerry Richardson, Norm Ryang, Chad Townsend
 * Characer cleanup designer: Douglas Ninneman
 * Character layout designers and animators: Dale Baer, Spike Brandt, Rick Farmiloe, Milton Grey, Dan Haskett, T. Dan Hofstedt, Jon McClenahan, Mario Menjivar, John Pomeroy, Ruben Procopio, Lenord Robinson, Larry Scholl, Jeff Siergey, Robert Sledge, Neal Sternecky, Bill Waldman, Andreas Wessel-Therhorn
 * Background key designers: Ted Blackman, Eric N. Clark, Luciano Herrera, Ben Kendall, Gary Mouri, Andy Phillipson, Chuck Ragins, Jonathan Renoni, George Stokes
 * Background painters: Chris Brock, James Gallego, Luciano Herrera, Joseph Holt, Michael Inman, Ryan Magno, Pete Oswald, Donna Prince, Leonard Robledo, Jesse Silver, Maryann Thomas, Richard Ziehler-Martin
 * Color stylists: Sylvia Filcak, Shawnee Holt, Claire Lenth, Ivan Mendoza, Hannah Nance Partlow, Maribel Pozos
 * Storyboard artists: Spike Brandt, Barry Caldwell, Sahin Ersoz, Rick Farmiloe, David "Pez" Hofmann, Amber Hollinger, Larry Leker, John Pomeroy, Lenord Robinson, Larry Scholl, Robert Sledge, Neal Sternecky, Byron Vaughns
 * Storyboard cleanup artists: Dave Alvarez, Julian Chaney, Shavonne Cherry, Tracy Lee, Kexx Singleton
 * Animation timers: Kent Butterworth, Sean Dempsey, Tom Mazzocco, Herb Moore, Frank Weiss
 * Animation checkers: Check Gefre, Justin Schultz
 * Supervising technical director: Matt Girardi
 * Effects animators: Aaron Chavda, Andy Jolliff, Rosanna Lyons, Jason Plapp, Timothy N. Ryan
 * Animation services: Digital eMation
 * Supervising directors: Taejoon Kim, Sungwoo Lee
 * Animation directors: Ikhwan Yim, Yungwon Jung, Mikyung Myung, Dongwon Jung, Kyungwon Yim
 * Production support: Scarlet Sookyung Kim, Sunmi Park, Ini Song, Agatha Sarim Kim, Ashley Hee-Eun Bae, Sujin Jung
 * Layout artists: Kyoochang Lee, Eunghwan Oh, Chang-Han Kim, Myung-Im Kang, Jongdae Lee, Kyungwon Yim, Joonchan Kim, Jihoon Lee, Seohan Kim
 * Key animators: Jaeong Kim, Yongsub Jung, Bongkeun Kim, Namgil Jo, Kyungwook Min, Jinsoo Hong, Yung-Goo Kang, Yoonbae Kim, Songpil Kim, Seunghoon Yang, Yangsoo Lee, Jinyul Jang, Insul Hwang, Eunmi Lee, Kidong Lee, Hangduk Jo, Soojong Lee, Daekown Lee
 * Model checkers: Minyun Lee, Wooram Shim, Eunmi Kim
 * In-between checkers: Chulki Hong, Chulmin Kim, Jong-Gook Lee, Naksoo Choi, Namgi Kim, Heejung Kim, Myungho Kim, Mijnug Jun, Heenam Jo
 * Final checkers: Hyowon Choi, Seungyong Jung
 * Background artists: Sunhee Heo, Joongho Park, Kyungsook Park, Haesung Kim, Hyunhee Oh
 * Inkers and painters: Miyung Park, Yong Ahn, Sunyung Ham, Yoonim Lee, Woonrye Jung
 * CG artists: Eddie Jaeil Byun, Daeguen Hong
 * Compositors: Seungwhan Kim, Eun-Ah Ha, Jinho Heo, Gang-Ok Kim, Yooil Park, Juhee Yang
 * Post production executive: Greg Emerson
 * Post production manager: Rebecca Unger
 * Recording facility: Soundworks
 * Recording machine operator: Jeff O. Collins
 * Track readers: Wilson Martinez, Fred Salinas
 * Supervising dialogue/ADR editor: Mark A. Keatts
 * Dialogue/ADR editors: Kelly Foley Downs, Patrick J. Foley, Mike Garcia
 * Post production sound services: Advantage Audio
 * Online editor: Darren Griffiths
 * Assistant editors: Melissa Bailey, Michael G. Buck, Gabriel Thorburn
 * Production administrator: Daphne Fei
 * Production support: Cher Bentley, Tina Fallah, Audrey Kim, Andrea Lo, Tamara Miles, Jill Share, Kira Tirimacco, Renee Toporzysek
 * Casting adiminstrator: Liz Carroll
 * Production accountants: Yadira Davis, Debbie Lindquist, Maral Simonian, Athena Wingate
 * Rights and clearances: Brendan Brasier
 * Business and legal affairs: Lori Blackstone, Sharmalee Lall, Rebecca Mathany, Bonnie Negrete, Britton Payne, Joulene St. Catherine
 * Production supervisor: Bobbie Page
 * Production management: Ed Adams
 * Executive in charge of production: Jay Adams

Release
Dates are in order of release:


 * United States: June 27, 2017 on Digital on Demand; July 11, 2017 on DVD

Behind the scenes

 * Alberto Minoleta is really Droopy.
 * The tour happens on October 1st.

Errors

 * Charlie needs American currency to buy a chocolate bar, but Jerry waves a British flag to represent Charlie when he goes into the factory.

Critical reception
The trailer of the film was released on April 2017 and was met with negative reactions online, with some questioning why it was made.

In a review of the film, Beth Elderkin of Gizmodo wrote: "Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is not just stupid, it's insulting. It's a cheap mockbuster with a cat and mouse artlessly, needlessly inserted."

Home availability

 * In the United States:
 * July 11, 2017: Warner Home Video releases Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory on DVD.
 * June 5, 2018: Warner Home Video releases Tom and Jerry: Triple Feature on DVD.
 * In the United Kingdom and Ireland
 * February 15, 2021: Warner Home Video releases Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory on DVD.