Where the Wild Things Are

People, We are talking of a 330 +or- a word or two, childrens fantasy story. The way Jonze has adapted this story and turned it into one with a plot, "unlike the book" reminds us again of his brilliant mastery of insanity and the art of storytelling. In today's view of the "High Tech", and low attention spans, it is incredible that this story even made it onto the silver screen in the first place and to make without the cheezefest
that most fliks now have, it is truly refreshing. So take off the weeney hat, Take the little bus to the shallow end of the pool and delve deep within your own hidden child and re-live that time in your life when monsters under the bed were real. When you knew there really was a place, Where the Wild things Are and you were King.... Maybe next, Jonze could tackle Steven Kings "The Talisman".

My kids hated it! I hated it! Stay Away!!!
Very depressing movie overall. Quick synopsis of movie is, crazy kids runs away from home and travels by boat to a desserted island where he finds depressed and defeated monsters. He claims he is all powerful and can make them happy. They make him king and everything he does to make them happy he messes up and eventually one of them tries to eat him. He leaves the island and goes home and is greeted by his mom who falls asleep while he eats cherrios. THE END!

Taking my daughters I was excited to share something that to do this I can easily recall and reminds me of happier, safer times. So to see this movie as horrible as it was left me very dismayed and for my daughters the look of shear displeasure made it all the worse. We saw it on the IMAX but with all the motion and shaky camera scenes it made all of sick on our stomach.

Stay away and remember it with fond memories, savor it and dont destroy it.

The Jim Henson costume/puppets were great and the visuals were really up there but why did the beasts have to sound like a bunch of emotional hippies? Disney should have finished the animated movie version for this they were working onback in the 80s. It showed a lot more promise. You can even view some of the tests here on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvIDRoO8KnM

I haven't seen the movie yet, but I found this comment a little ironic; "Nothing on the island teaches him how to control it or channel it into a healthy path, so we don't feel he's made progress when he returns home." Of coure, Spike Jonez only directed Adaptation (the Kauffman twins wrote it...haha) but this exact idea was one of the central themes of the movie.