Max Records,
James Gandolfini,
Lauren Ambrose,
Paul Dano,
Catherine O'Hara
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The adventures of a young boy named Max who, after being sent to bed for misbehaving, imagines that he sails away to where the wild things are. Max is loved by the wild creatures who make him their Ki...( read more
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DVD Release Date: March 2, 2010
Stats: 12,985 reviews
I can't believe how low I'm rating this since I've been waiting to see this film for months. The trailer just seemed so...hopeful, but I guess it was kinda deceiving - I do feel deceived.
Max Records is phenomenal. At the beginning, when her sister's friends smash his igloo and...( read more)
"There's one in all of us."
An adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's story, where Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world--a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler....( read more)
As a striking example of honing tone and originality, Spike Jonze's interpretation of a childhood longing for pride and status sits high on the list of experimental children's fables. The film is a melancholic, but all-the-while levitating, ponderance of escapism and the need for...( read more)
After the wonderfully odd and gorgeous trailer I am a little disappointed in the film itself. The look and visual design is really pretty and unique, young Max Records a very talented discovery for the main role. The ending was really sweet and touching, but the middle part had m...( read more)
Maybe I missed something with this one. Maybe I was looking too hard for a deep meaning and I should have just taken it at face value. It's a very beautiful film, great job with the creatures. To me it was just a bratty kid that needed to be smacked and put on Ridilin. The kids b...( read more)
Wow, i would not let my child (If i had one) see this film. I was ready to slit my wrists!! I'm so dissappointed in this film, especially as i was so excited about seeing it and loved the book when i was younger. Its beautifully set and a powerful, emotional drama. The bears repr...( read more)
Easily one of the best "kid's" movies I've seen in a long time. Anyone who used their imagination while playing in their youth will have a smile on their face from start to finish. Pleasantly suprised by this.
8/10
Disappointing. Beautiful looking shame about the dialogue and plot. It was overly long. The source text being a picture book it just didn't need to be that long. There were some great touching moments though just not enough to keep me interested and I had been really looking forw...( read more)
"Will you keep out all the sadness?"...( read more)
This is based on a book, and I've heard it's very short. The movie however is actually quite long. The book is about a young boy named Max who has wonderfully imaginative rebellion about being sent to bed without any supper. I haven
Spike Jonze is an original cinematic voice but in the end you just wish he left this on the bookshelf where it belongs. full review
Jonze's ideas, visual and otherwise, spill out in a faux-philosophical ramble that isn't nearly as deep as he thinks it is; at best, it's a scrambled tone poem. Even the look of the picture becomes ti... full review
Where the Wild Things Are is a fiercely innovative film with surprising texture and nuance. It captures the joy and exuberance of childhood without shying away from its very real pains and woes. full review
For all the money spent, the film's success is best measured by its simplicity and the purity of its innovation. Jonze has filmed a fantasy as if it were absolutely real, allowing us to see the world ... full review
In an era glutted with sanitized, prefabricated, computer-generated kids' stuff, this is an experience of sophisticated cross-generational appeal. It digs deep into childhood's bright, manic exuberanc... full review
The plot is simple stuff, spread fairly thin in terms of events but portentous in terms of meaning. It comes down to: What is right? -- a question that children often seek answers to. full review
The most daring kid's-movie adaptation since Altman's still-avant-garde Popeye from 1980. full review
These monsters that are made of costumes with CGI faces and voiced by these wonderful actors, they're just as real and as complicated as the real people. full review
Instead of being bombarded by computer illusions, we're allowed to suspend our disbelief, to bring our own imaginations into play. For all the artfulness, the feel of the film is rough-hewn, almost pr... full review
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