Where the Wild Things Are

What a horrible, horrible vision!! Spike Jonez and Dave Eggers blasphemously stripped the wild anarchic primal JOY of the book and replaced it instead with a movie awash in sad greys, dysfunction and overly "talky" neurotic "wild things".... it was like... Full review

The book "Where the Wild Things Are" was brilliant in it's simple truth: kids think they want to be the kings of their world, but really, to indulge in play, wild-ness, and anarchy all the time would be scary, empty and... Full review

I don't know what's all the raving about how great this movie is, but as soon as the movie trailer came out on TV I knew it'd be a piece of crap. Sure enough, I watched it tonight, and my opinion... Full review

I have no idea what movie all those other people watched - the ones who gave it 3 stars and above - but I can say with the strongest conviction that it wasn't the same movie I watched. OK, 1st thing... Full review

Maybe I just don't "get it," but this movie was seriously lacking something. A plot, maybe? I wanted to like this movie, I really did. It had a very animated, handsome, believable boy in Max Records playing the role of Max.... Full review

I was really hoping to enjoy this movie and for the first hour, I did. Unfortunately where the wild things are is where character development is not. The main character, Max, remains just as selfish and cruel at the beginning of... Full review

A beautiful, audacious, roughly-hewn motion picture (adjectives that are no doubt overused in describing the picture's modus operandi), Spike Jonze's adaptation Maurice Sendak's adored children's book "Where the Wild Things Are" taps into the innocent, volatile world of a 9 year... Full review

Billed as a romping-fun family movie, what I saw was a tedious, brooding, neurotic and thoroughly unwatchable film. One that I would never show to children. I loved the book as a child and was totally sold on seeing this movie... Full review

From the first trailer that I saw, I had a feeling that this would be a great movie. As each succeeding trailer upped the ante, I became more and more sure. When I walked into the theater and saw children and... Full review

When I first saw that Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers were adapting "Where the Wild Things Are" into a feature-length film, one question kept coming up: how do you turn a nine sentence children's book into a movie? Unfortunately, after seeing... Full review

It's one of 2009's most anticipated films -- director Spike Jonze's adaptation of Maurice Sendak's kids' classic, Where the Wild Things Are -- and it's almost, at long last, about to arrive in cinemas. ... Full Article

Alison Goldfrapp is trying to explain, I suspect to herself as much as anyone else, why she and her musical partner, Will Gregory, spent most of the summer frantically writing the score for Nowhere Boy, Sam Taylor-Wood's biopic of the... ... Full Article

A FEW weekends ago I sat near the back of the biggest theater in my local multiplex, part of a packed house watching Spike Jonze 's "Where the Wild Things Are." ... Full Article

Despite director Spoke Jonze's insistence that 'Where the Wild Things Are' is not a children's film, many families still trooped to theaters expecting something a lot more kid-friendly than the dark, existential art film they got. ... Full Article

NEW YORK - About the hoopla surrounding the film adaptation of "Where the Wild Things Are," Maurice Sendak is characteristically gruff. "I kind of want it over," he said. ... Full Article