Never seen this. How many musical numbers are there?

Quite a few. It's pretty much a musical.

Personally, I like musicals, and the songs in this film are actually the highlight, along with Gene Wilder's performance, but if you hate musicals you may not respond so well to this film. That said, there are other highlights, such as the various punishments the bad children suffer, so maybe you could just fast-forward through the songs.

I think you can fast forward through the musical numbers and still enjoy the film, might even like some of the musical numbers too.

I just watched this after not having seen it since I was (I think) in 5th grade and we read the book for class. I didn't remember all the singing. Not a fan of musicals myself, so I didn't really enjoy those, but thankfully the rest of it was good. And at least it wasn't constant singing.

The music numbers are very short and painless (except the one the mom sings which seems to go on for half an hour).

It's a very good film but yeah, there's probably about 10 songs or so. In my view, the songs are more like comedy skits rather than major parts of the story. It's not like concert style film-making like Moulin Rouge, which is probably my favorite musical. The musical numbers in WW are more relaxed rather than in your face.

Here's the scene when they first enter the factory, name of the song is Pure Imagination.

Watch this, if you just can't get into it then maybe its not the best thing to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ-uV72pQKI&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com%2F&embeds_referring_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo