Where the Wild Things Are Movie Review

www.mannythemovieguy.com When I heard that Warner Bros. was going to produce a film version of the beloved childrens classic Where the Wild Things Are, I was skeptical at best. How could director Spike Jonze adapt a book of only 20 pages and 10 sentences into a full-feature film? The result is a visually compelling adventure that is respectful of the 1963 childrens picture book. Jonze and company capture author Maurice Sendaks psychoanalytical tone and expound on the theme how kids master various feelings. As a child, I identified with the main character Max. In the book, he is sent to bed without dinner but then a forest starts to grow in his room and an ocean tumbles by with a private boat to sail to where the wild things are. After taming the wild things and being hailed their ruler, Max sails back home just in time for supper. Who doesnt want to be Max? In the film version, kids will still identify with Max but they will be more enthralled by the wild things roaring their terrible roars and gnashing their terrible teeth and rolling their terrible eyes and showing their terrible claws. Every boy will want to tame the wild things and be their ruler. Max Records (The Brothers Bloom) stars as Max, a rambunctious and sensitive boy who feels misunderstood at home. His single mom (Catherine Keener) is preoccupied with her boyfriend (Mark Ruffalo), while his adolescent sister does not have time for him anymore. One night during dinner, Max and his mom have an argument. But ...