Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 248
Fresh: 181 | Rotten: 67
Some may find its dark tone and slender narrative off-putting, but Spike Jonze's heartfelt adaptation of the classic children's book is as beautiful as it is uncompromising.
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 42
Fresh: 28 | Rotten: 14
Some may find its dark tone and slender narrative off-putting, but Spike Jonze's heartfelt adaptation of the classic children's book is as beautiful as it is uncompromising.
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Visionary director Spike Jonze brings Maurice Sendak's beloved children's book to the big screen with the help of hipster icon Dave Eggers, who teamed with Jonze to pen the adapted screenplay. A mixture of real actors, computer animation, and live puppeteering, Where the Wild Things Are follows the adventures of a young boy named Max (Max Records) as he enters the world of the Wild Things, a race of strange and enormous creatures who gradually turn the young boy into their king. ~ Jason
PG, 1 hr. 41 min.
Action & Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Drama, Kids & Family, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Oct 16, 2009 Wide
Mar 2, 2010
$77.2M
Warner Bros. Pictures
All Critics (250) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (184) | Rotten (68) | DVD (6)
[Jonze has] achieved with the cinematic medium what Sendak did with words and pictures: He's grasped something true and terrifying about love at its most unconditional and voracious.
Wild Things, you do not make my heart sing.
Intellectually interesting, visually arresting and filled with invention, there's just one crucial thing Where the Wild Things Are is missing: wildness.
Spike Jonze, we salute you.
Director Spike Jonze gets that Max's subsequent journey to the far-off island of the wild things is nothing less than an odyssey into his mind.
This blend of the real and unreal is successful because Jonze's feeling for childhood binds everything together.
Stretches to spectacular, big-screen proportions the soaring, roaring fancy of Maurice Sendak's classic 1963 bedtime tale.
It's kind of astonishing when something this odd slips through the cracks of the Hollywood mainstream.
If you want something light and fluffy to take the kids to see, you're better off looking elsewhere.
It's almost as if they were afraid to redefine the book, and left things as free-floating and ambiguous as possible. ... it's all meandering, abstract non-story that isn't helped by the muddy color palette
This is not a coming-of-age film. It's an end-of-innocence film. And that makes every moment, be it funny or sad, so beautiful and so heartbreaking at the same time. You'll want to hug it and hold onto it, as if it were your childhood sailing away.
Lo atractivo de la película es que no pretende "aleccionar" a los niños sobre nada, sino simplemente permitirles vivir una aventura con el mismo espíritu fantástico de los cuentos infantiles.
If you ever laughed uncontrollably while engaged in a childhood snowball fight, built intricate forts out of your grandmother's afghan blankets, or made up the rules to complex playground games, in the middle of the game, then this film is for you.
A beautiful and languid testament to the importance of remembering how powerful our childhoods really were.
Never having read the book, it must be better than this.
It was as if Jonze had decided to remake Conrad's Heart of Darkness for children. (Blu-ray Edition)
For me, it was a hard, uphill climb just to say I'd reached the top.
Spike Jonze's great, undervalued film gets an underwhelming DVD package.
Sendak sums up the joy and miracle of creative passion, even as he acknowledges dreaded mortality lurking in the existential shadows.
Sendak sums up the joy and miracle of creative passion, even as he acknowledges dreaded mortality lurking in the existential shadows.
Where the Wild Things Are imaginatively evokes the childhood fears and wonders experienced when trying to make sense of the world.
Uma espécie de "Anticristo" Jr., o filme abraça o universo psicológico de seu protagonista como estrutura narrativa, levando o espectador para uma viagem por vezes perturbadora - mas sempre tocante - à psique de Max.
I didn't enjoy Where The Wild Things are the first time I saw it, probably because it was so unexpected. I've watched it since and im proud to say that I did enjoy it the second time round. Its far from perfect but it's perfection for telling a story that isn't coming of age but the end of one's innocence.
November 2, 2011
Super Reviewer
Not to sound unprofessional but i want one of them monsters.
March 24, 2012Super Reviewer
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