Where the Wild Things Are, 2009

I have to say I was a wee bit disappointed with this movie it was based on a great book but the movie :( I Can't believe it was a short movie yet it keep going on the best bit was when the kid got eaten and was hiding. Really disappointed :(

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Unless your tweeners really enjoy Ibsen they'll hate this picture, but I won't dwell on that. It's not kid friendly, that's clear. Maybe it's grown-up nostalgia. "Where the Wild Things Are" starts off well and I liked the first twenty minutes. The jump cuts do reflect a boys irrational mind and Catherine Keener was sympathetic as the mother. After impressively passing that hurdle, I thought the next challenge would be expanding the material to feature length but it really didn't matter. Once the boy heads off to "Where the Wild Things Are" it jumps so far off track tonally it can't recover. It's relentlessly sad and it doesn't reflect any sensible reading of the book. Maybe I was a poor young reader, that's what my teachers said, but I thought the monsters were cool, and I thought it would be a kick to go where the wild things are. I didn't realise it was a magical land of clinical depressives. I thought a wild rumpus was fun too, but I was wrong. The music for it here is "Wake Up" by Arcade Fire. Rumpus-ing, you see, is done to hipster sad music. (YouTube that song and tell me how rumpus-y YOU think it is.) Tony Soprano mouthing one of the creatures was a little weird, and I didn't think the creatures CGI faces were very expressive but I probably could have accepted those if I didn't feel like slitting my wrists through the rest. Spike Jonze and Dave Eggars are talented guys, I like them both, but in striving for something deep and sublime they sucked the fun out of the story. It was like they made the "Wizard of Oz" in all black and white, removed the munchkins and those frivolous songs and decided that it was really about flying monkeys with esteem issues and Dorothy pining for Kansas. I sure hope they don't try to film that one about the five identical Chinese brothers. I still have some happy memories which I don't want ruined, thank-you.

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This movie got to me I felt for max I was in the same situation. so many of us were in the same situation were we were wild things. Children who Just wanted some one to Listen to them. But in a big world of older siblings and single parents, No one can so we make up are own worlds. This is a great movie for kids and adults alike.

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Based on a children's book by Maurice Sendak, "WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE" involves a boy of about 10 or 11 who's not coping well within his family. After provoking a scene with his mom, he runs away one night and quickly seems to slip into his imagination and arrive at a wondrous island populated by way-larger-than-life animals who speak. He becomes their leader, and at first all seems well. Soon he realizes that even as king, it's not all fun and games -- he can't keep all his subjects happy at the same time. It seems likely that the animals, wonderfully voiced by people like James Gandolfini, are all parts of the boy himself. He ultimately seems to learn that there's no igloo, fort, island or home that's a snuggle-safe haven totally happy all the time. Lesson learned, he returns home to his real family. The film seems to be too adult for kids and maybe too child-like for adults. Still, director Spike Jonze is always highly original, so at least the pic isn't ordinary. There are no extras on the DVD, and the disc maker forces you to watch some stupid advert for a game based on the movie -- infuriatingly, the menu and other buttons won't work until the ad's played.

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