Where the Wild Things Are
Based on the classic children's story by Maurice Sendak.
Starring Forest Whitaker, James Gandolfini and Catherine O'Hara, from director Spike Jonze comes Where the Wild Things Are. Max, a rumbunctious and sensitive boy, feels misunderstood at home and escapes to where the Wild Things are. Max lands on an island where he meets mysterious and strange creatures whose emotions are as wild and unpredictable as their actions. The Wild Things desperately long for a leader to guide them, just as Max longs for a kingdom to rule. When Max is crowned king, he promises to create a place where everyone will be happy. Max soon finds, though, that ruling his kingdom is not so easy and his relationships there prove to be more complicated than he originally thought.
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Full of anger - fsavoie
The trailer for this movie was somewhat misleading. I start the movie with an impression that I was going to watch something about a troubled boy that goes into a surreal world to evade himself and find hope. This is not what the movie is about. The boy is full of anger and goes into that surreal world with "monsters" that are also full of anger. I get the movie. It was about what was inside him and he needed to fixed it but still really too much of anger. The monster desing was fabulous as the music of the film.This movie was very strange ... Max has issues ... - TheWorldOfTeE
... like anger management, abandonment and loneliness issues. Did he kill the dog or what? I found Max to be very unstable child and too into his own imagination and not enough reality. There were parts in this movie that were really disturbing but my 8 yr old daughter liked the movie despite it's strangeness. I thought the monsters were a bit intimidating and strange at the same time. I do not recommend this movie for young viewers. I know that the movie is usually never like the book but I did like the book better. I was not impressed.meh. - fakewindow
interesting production design, great concept, but ultimately too moody and depressing. I like the fact that it seems that Eggers and Jonze may have wanted to explore the complexities of human emotion, particularly in childhood, but it seems kind of disappointing to choose this story as the arena for that. the original story, while still maintaining some degree of serious subject matter, has more of a carefree vibe, and I think it may have been more apropriate to take a "fun" aproach to the adaptation rather than trying to present an "insightful" one. but that's just me.
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Full of anger - fsavoie
The trailer for this movie was somewhat misleading. I start the movie with an impression that I was going to watch something about a troubled boy that goes into a surreal world to evade himself and find hope. This is not what the movie is about. The boy ...This movie was very strange ... Max has issues ... - TheWorldOfTeE
... like anger management, abandonment and loneliness issues. Did he kill the dog or what? I found Max to be very unstable child and too into his own imagination and not enough reality. There were parts in this movie that were really disturbing but my 8 yr ...meh. - fakewindow
interesting production design, great concept, but ultimately too moody and depressing. I like the fact that it seems that Eggers and Jonze may have wanted to explore the complexities of human emotion, particularly in childhood, but it seems kind of disappointing ...