Roald Dahl Retrospective Episode 15: Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory

In this episode of the Roald Dahl Retrospective, Patricia, Arun,
and special guests Eli "The Hero of Tomorrow" Stone, Jim Bevan,
and James "Jaimetud" Sullivan discuss about the 2017 direct to
DVD animated film Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka & The Chocolate
Factory based on the 1940 cartoon shorts and the 1971 film Willy
Wonka and the Chocolate Factory which is an adaptation of the
1964 book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory starring J.P.
Karliak, Lincoln Melcher, Jess Harnell, Sean Schemmel, Mick
Wingert, Kate Higgins, Spike Brandt, and Kath Soucie.The movie
features Tom and Jerry starving on the streets until a young boy
named Charlie Bucket gives them a loaf of bread. To thank Charlie
for his kindness, Tom and Jerry decide to get Charlie a Willy
Wonka candy bar while a contest is happening where 5 golden
tickets are hidden in Willy Wonka candy bars and whoever finds
it, gets to go into Willy Wonka's candy factory. Tom and Jerry
meet up with Slugworth, Willy Wonka's rival candy maker, Spike,
Slugworth's assistant and a truck driver for Willy Wonka's
factory, and Tuffy, an Oompa Loompa intern.   


When the movie premiered, it was bashed by critics and fans
calling it an unnecessary adaption that is a copy-paste film of
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with Tom and Jerry in it as
well as its bizarre animation. It was released one year after the
passing of Gene Wilder which made the movie more of an insult to
fans of the original 1971 adaptation. What do they think of the
film? Listen and find out.