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TIL the sequel to “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” involves Wonka and the Buckets narrowly escaping death at the hands(?) of vicious aliens in a government-funded space hotel and traveling into Hell (AKA Minusland) to save Grandma Georgina.

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