After weeks of hand-wringing over whether kids could handle the emotional intensity in Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers’ big screen adaptation of Where the Wild Read the full post.
Oct 18
2009
04:33 PM ET
Where the Wild Things Are: Kids eat it up, they love it so.
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I wept twice. This movie is a visceral experience…you are Max and seeing the world through his eyes..it’s unnerving because the world is often a scary place to a kid. This film was very unique, but if you give yourself over to it, I think it’s brilliant. I think my son would have been more into it had he been alone with me, but he was with a pal who kept leaning over saying, “I don’t like this. This is creepy.” So it bummed me out because I think it colored his experience. Not everyone is going to get this movie but isn’t that how it is with Sendak in general?
Saw this movie tonight. It was AWFUL. That kid was a psychotic, manipulative, unruly brat! He was annoying and I wished he’d been eaten. He defied his mother, he screamed, he growled, he attacked his mother, he bit her, then he ran away. What did the mother do? NOTHING. Some of the most irritating characters in a movie, ever. Don’t waste time or money on this load of crud.
Wow, imagine what a lovely child you were when you were a kid. I was a pretty good kid (compared to my siblings) and even I acted like that occasionally. At least he felt bad about it, he knew it was wrong.
I took my 7 y.o. grandson and 5 y.o. granddaughter to see the movie. I thought it was too intense for children their age. Max biting his mom, tearing up his sister’s property. It seemed to have a lot of violence in it. Carol destroying the huts when Max first meets the group; it was like Carol was a volcano about to erupt at any moment because things didn’t go as he expected them to. The part where Max directs the group to have the mud ball fight and aim at each others heads just seemed too rough. My granddaughter asked several times about the chicken character that had his arm yanked off and ended up with a branch for a replacement. If I had known before what this movie was about, I wouldn’t have exposed my g’kids to it.
I loved the movie. I’m 45. A friends six year old didn’t so much like it, his comment being ” Yeah, I don’t know what that was about.” I guess it’s individual.
Questioin: WHY is texting in a movie bad? I’ve been at movies where multitudes of folks were texting and I only realized it when I was walking by to go get popcorn or whatever. Unless the people around them are staring down at the phone in question how are they even going to know any texting is going on? That tiny little glow? Really? REALLY?! C’mon.
I’ve never found it to be distracting or rude even when the person was sitting right next to me. What do I care if they’re watching the movie or not? It’s not my money they wasted.
Its funny how pathetic people are commenting on whether a movie is appropriate or not for kids, lame. Im 15 and when I go to the movies me and my friends text all the time, it shouldnt be a problem if the phone is on silent and if it bothers you sooo much, MOVE. I went to see this movie with my little cousins and they liked it. I personally thought it was kinda boring, but hey thats me.
dear child, people pay alot of money that they have to earn (rather than using the money they get from their parents) to go to the cinema…there are signs all around asking you very nicely to be RESPECTFUL and turn your phones off. as much you might not be using the irritating ring tone, the flashing lights are very distracting and often the sound of the phone vibating on the floor is just as loud. people that have paid to go and see a movie should not have to move themselves and children just because some kids cant have enough respect for the people around them to turn their phone off.
I want my $7.00 back and the two hours I wasted my life in the theater.
i went to se this film with my mum and my son….all 3 generations loved it, my son is 4 and obviously there were alot of questions “why is he breaking that-why is she eating him” etc. but as he came out i asked him how the film was, he said “it was good…but why wasn’t there a sea monster?” that was the only negative feedback we had for the film….i hope this film lives through as many (and more) generations as the book has. A truely beautiful look at family life through a childs eyes.
I thought this film had great visuals, but fell to pieces every time anyone or anything spoke. The problem for me was that I found the pseudo profundities of the dialog laboured and charmless. I don’t think they were difficult concepts, they were just muddled and silly. The book manages to be poetic with barely any text. The film ditches this for endless waves of psycho-babble,an over elaborated storyline and insights that are not worth bothering with. The wild things are facets of Max’s character, No, way. Childhood is magical. Never heard that one before. Running away in your imagination is liberating. No!
This is a gormless film at heart. Up has a much better script, much better sense of wonder and actually says more about childhood.