Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
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| Production company | Warner Bros. Animation |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Home Entertainment |
| Release date | January 26, 2017 |
| Run time | 79 minutes |
| Starring | JP Karilak Jess Harnell Lincoln Melcher Mick Wingert Lori Alan Jeff Bergman Spike Brandt Rachel Bureta Kate Higgins Dallas Lovato Emily O'Brian Sean Schemmel Katie Soucie Jim Ward Audrey Wasilewski Lauren Weisman |
| Executive producer(s) | Sam Register |
| Producer(s) | Spike Brandt Tony Cervone |
| Music composed by | Michael Tavera Robby Merkin (musical director) |
| Story by | Gene Grillo |
| Director(s) | Spike Brandt |
| Art director(s) | Michael Peraza Jr. |
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Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is a 2017 American animated difect-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 January 26, 2017. It was written by Gene Grillo, and directed by Spike Brandt. 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 overwhemingly 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!
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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.
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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."[1]
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- ^ Elderkin, Beth (July 2, 2017)."My Mad Descent Into the Hellish Void That Is Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory", Gizmodo. Retrieved Janurary 19, 2023.
