Where the Wild Things Are Reviews

"Where the Wild Things Are" is a big budget film based on Maurice Sendak's classic children's book. One of the big challenges facing the filmmaker was how to take a children's picture book with only ten sentences and extrapolate it into a two-hour film. Apparently, this filmmaker decided that overcomplicating everything was the way to go. Instead of a rambunctious boy who liked to play loud and rough, Max is reimagined as an angst-ridden bag of insecurites who falls to pieces when things don't go his way. In the book, he dreams of the island of monsters where he is made king after being sent to...

Based upon the previews, I thought "Where The Wild Things Are" would be a heart warming kids movie. I took my 11 year old daughter and was very disturbed by the darkness of the plot line. The movie rumbled along with a wandering story that lacked focus. The little boy was selfish and obnoxious and never really did redeem himself. The "Wild Things" were actually sad characterizations of very dysfunctional adults.

I know that many will say that this a creative masterpiece by a visionary director. It would be a great movie to show to a college psychology class to disect the characters and their...

Where the wild things are is on the dark side and violent in some areas,I would recommend this to be for ages 8 and up

Seeing about 60 movies a year in movie houses I certainly see a lot of bad ones and "Where the Wild Things Are" would be in the list as a loser.

It is too boring for adults--I drifted off more than a few times--certainly too dark for the young ones and probably would be appreciated only by 9 year olds who like to bump into and destroy things, which after seeing this movie will send them on a rampage!!!

Special effects have become so common these days--seems like every movie has them--that they aren't special or effective anymore. The only dazzling special effects in this movie...