It looks good. In fact, it looks incredible.
The kid is an ultra brat, so you don’t want him to be an example to your kids.
The creatures are heavily medicated, or need they some coffee.
The emotional weight of the film is too heavy for kiddies, it’s just too dark.
It sucks for adults, cliched and boring.
It did look good, but it raped Sendak’s book with a dry cactus.
Most decent parents will feel ambushed.
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Stop here if you don’t want the blog beating of your life…
‘Kay… you were warned.
Where The Wild Things Are is a movie by a Gen X loser who must incorporate his narcissistic Kurt Cobain Nirvana bullshit into a kids film. The whole fantasy of running away to meet monster friends is lost when the monster friends suck as bad as your home life.
This is a trend of adults mixing into kid’s movies. Hey adults, you have so completely f***ed up your own films, so please leave the kid’s films alone.
The loser brigade of middle aged women who obsess over the Twilight books will love Where The Wild Things Are. Adults with the minds of children are obviously the target audience.
Things are hard at home, leave.
Things are hard at the new place, leave.
The first two marriages of most baby boomers described in two sentences.
Put the lame high school trash novels down, open up an email and ask Spike Jonze why he violated a film that should send kids over the rainbow with the problems of family dysfunction.
Pablo Pig wastes time on the Internet. If you are reading about Pablo Pig, you are wasting time on the Internet too. 
Granted, Max is a brat, and in the closing scene, I agree that I (and while I’m not, anyone who might be a parent) is left hanging because the turd ought to apologize, especially considering the fact that he’s eating chocolate cake.
if you didn’t like it, honestly; I feel sorry for you. I’m no fan of twilight or any of that swill, but in spite of my own jaded nature, it still made me smile even up to the point where they realized he was no king at all. All in all, I’m with Sendak in that if you were expecting some fairytale wonderland bullshit, “Go to hell.”
Just a note, if you’re so far gone that you’ve completely forgotten what it’s like to be young and to remember having an innocent (albeit selfish) mind, pay no attention to my comments; you’re already there.
Hey dweeb, when parents don’t like the kids movie because its’ too much like an evening drama, it means…
… they don’t like the movie for their kids.
Also, the douche (Sendak) in your article claimed Disney
“…made Mickey a fat nothing. He’s too important for products. They want him to be placid and nice and adorable. He turned into a schmaltzer. I despised him after a point.”
Yeah that’s why Americans don’t like Where The Wild Things Are the movie, because their kids will end up talking like Sendak.
Mvnk,
sorry but there is no argument to save this film. You’re trying make diamonds out of a pile of shit. It just doesn’t work. Spike Jonze ruined what was potentially an epically great film to be enjoyed and cherished by people, old & young. Give anyone else this $90 million dollar project and I promise it would have been 3x a better film. Sofia Coppola wins
This movie was horrible! It’s mood was exactly opposite from the book. Max and the all the wild things (other than bird-dude) had psycological problems. The only charactor I liked was bird-dude and Carol tore his arm off! A happy book should NOT be turned into a sad movie. Nice job making the previews happy, and the movie sad!