Throughout "Wonka," the main character forges friendships with the people around him, like Noodle, but the movie fails to reveal what becomes of those connections, which goes starkly against the ...

And he'd reconnected downtrodden Noodle (Calah Lane ... and joyous in a way we haven't seen him in the whole movie. In the end, Wonka rescues Charlie. Strike that — reverse it.

Though the movie stands on its own ... and Hugh Grant returning to their roles of Noodle, Arthur Slugworth, and Lofty, Wonka's favorite Oompa Loompa. In fact, Hugh Grant has said that he hated ...