I cannot wait for "Where the Wild Things Are". (filmed, watching)

[max's mama]

I just love the book and can't wait for the movie to come out. Anyone else is excited?

[BlueWillowPlate]

We've had a couple other threads about it.
The one I started isn't worth bringing back because the movie I linked to was taken down.
Here's another:
Link

I am excited about the movie (look under my username, I've had that forever!), but I read about a fairly disappointing spoiler. (I won't talk about it until after the movie is out.)

Also, the commercialization has already begun, they are selling $400-$600 wild thing outfits, but it is silly for me to be surprised about that.

Wild Thing Clothing Line

The soundtrack to the movie looks really good.

[cedew]

**SPOILER** Maybe not a spoiler, but talking about the movie, don't read if you don't want to know anything about it!





I just got back from this movie with my daughter, it was extremely annoying. The kid is a brat who lives in lala land. He practically stabs his dog with a fork while running after it through the house. I'm pretty sure this child character has never heard the word 'no' in his life. He stands on the table and yells 'woman, feed me' to his mother. She tries to physically take him to his room, he bites her and runs away. His runaway behavior is rewarded with a magical trip to an island where he plays with giant fluffy monsters. The monsters are whiny equivalents of the boy, they can't get along, and there is obviously a parallel being drawn between them and the boy. Then the monsters realize the boy sucks, so he goes home. When he gets home, he doesn't apologize for running away, and mom finally feeds him soup and cake. No please, no thank you, no apologies, no words spoken at all. If you have bratty kids, they will be more bratty after watching this. I give it two rigid thumbs down.

[moonshadow]

I was already looking forward to it but lately we've been getting a lot of press about the parts of Victoria where it was filmed, so now I'm really looking forward to seeing how those locations are used in the film.

Where the Wild Things Are (2009) - Filming locations

[LittleDolphin]

Loved the movie soundtrack, the book...the movie...hmmmm....not so much. Disappointing, actually.

[BlueWillowPlate]

I liked the soundtrack, too, and some of the visual imagery was stunning.

As the mother of two grown sons, I consider this to be another one of those movies about childhood that isn't really for kids.

To me, the movie was really good at getting to the heart of what it is like to *be* a kid.
However, the conversational stuff will be too boring for little ones, and some of the wild rumpus stuff might be too scary for anyone under 6 or 7.

No doubt some wistful, nostalgic 20-30 somethings will be enthralled.
I enjoyed much of it, too, especially the first half and the final moments, but it dragged a bit towards the end. And yeah, there was that one unidentified spoiler I was talking about earlier in the thread, but I can see how it would not have fit into this film.
This movie follows the Where the Wild Things Are theme, but the story is darker and deeper; this is Spike's Max, not Maurice Sendak's Max.

I thought the Wild Things themselves were pretty cool, and wonderfully voiced, especially KW's wise hippie chick.

[Dockside]

**MINOR SPOILER ALERT**

My wife took my son. She liked it at first, but said after awhile it felt like watching a drawn out psychotherapy session. She wasn't impressed. However, my happy, bouncy 10 yr old son came out of the movie incredibly sad. Today he said it still made him sad, why didn't the boy have a father, and he kind of wishes he hadn't seen it.

[cedew]

At least your boy is now aware of the proper way to request food, and what he should do if it isn't given to him immediately.