Compagnie Hervé Koubi Renders Movement Into Poetry

“Wonka,” released in December, is another I.P.-reliant, bright-hued musical attempting to court Gen Z with twentysomething-star casting. Unlike Renée Rapp, who is, for all the faults of “Mean Girls,” a genuine powerhouse in the role of Regina George, Timothée Chalamet is noticeably ill-equipped for the role of young Willy Wonka—though I also don’t envy him the task of rhyming “chocolate” with “pocke-let.” His forced whimsy and insistent wholesomeness mark a falling off from Gene Wilder’s more unsettling, far more memorable take on the character in “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory,” the 1971 adaptation of Roald Dahl’s book. Several friends responded to the new offerings the same way: by going straight home after the movie to stream its predecessor.SpotlightDance