cricketbat Spike Jonze took a beloved children's book and turned it into an emo-tastic snore-fest! While the special effects are undeniably good (the "wild things" look very organic and realistic), the story is completely watered down with overly dramatic and pointless plot points. Don't see the movie - just read the book again.

joseph574 Terrible. Just terrible. I just wasted two hours of my life on this depressing, weird and inappropriate movie "fir kids". Sucked.

Spencer When watching this movie, I convinced myself not to like it and to shame upon it for being dark and depressing, unlike Sendak's book which I grew up with. After reading "Heads On and We Shoot: The Making of Where the Wild Things Are" I fell in love with the movie. The amount (many years, in fact) of time that went into making this movie along with the minimal cast and crew diced in with some fresh and unique storytelling, neat cinematography, and a wonderful director who created bonds and friendships with almost everyone on set made this movie so enjoyable to watch again and again, although my family did not necessarily like the constant tidbits of awesome information that I spewed out throughout the film the third time I watched it.

SquigglyCrunch I was curious about this movie. It seemed to receive rather mixed reviews. Having read the book once or twice as a kid I was curious, plus all the wild things just looked really cool. For the most part I wasn't disappointed. It's about as good as I expected. Where the Wild Things Are has an interesting plot. It's different, for sure, but it's not different enough to catch your attention on it's own. Unfortunately, it wasn't presented very well. It involved mostly watching a bunch of fuzzy monsters having fun, as well as a short montage of fuzzy monsters building and a bit of arguing among the fuzzy monsters. While there were some character struggles, they weren't significant enough to make this movie anything more than what it was. The characters are done well for the most part. Max feels and acts like a child his age, and the wild things have their individual personalities that are relatively clear from the beginning. Unfortunately they never really go deeper than the clichés in which they embody. Nevertheless, they were still good enough not to ruin the movie. The visuals are probably the best part of this movie. The wild things themselves look super good, and their designs are unique and quite awesome. The other visuals are great too, which is definitely a plus. Overall Where the Wild Things Are is just good. It's not flawless, but it is well-done. The characters aren't horribly original, but they have personalities at least, the idea is interesting but not incredibly well-done, and the visuals are very good. Like I said, it's about as good as it could be. I can't think of any way to make this movie better or change any part of it. It was just good. In the end I'd recommend this movie, but don't expect some sort of underrated masterpiece with this one.