Where The Wild Things Are
It is the world of escape and real adventure that we live through a series of exciting scenes. Max decided to flee the house away from his family and sail to an island full of strange creatures that look quite different. Max can get whatever he wants through those creatures that made him a real king as he wishes since childhood.
18 September 1961, Westwood, New Jersey, USA
20 February 1978, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
19 June 1984, New York City, New York, USA
9 July 1951, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
15 October 1965, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
12 February 1979, Australia
5 November 1997, USA
23 March 1959, Miami, Florida, USA
22 December 1964, Oxford, England, UK
15 July 1961, Longview, Texas, USA
22 October 1969, Rockville, Maryland, USA
22 November 1967, Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
4 March 1954, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1 August 1960, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
August 28, 2013
Spike Jonze adapted a book with less than 200 words into a 90-minute feature and it's simply wonderful.
September 24, 2012
Jonze has created a world in which even "wild things" can be full of personality and fun to be around.
March 05, 2014
Unnecessarily gloomy and emotionally convoluted, Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers' script for Where the Wild Things Are is a melancholy adaptation of the one-two punch that is the heavily illustrated, scantly written book by Maurice Sendak.
October 16, 2009
Intellectually interesting, visually arresting and filled with invention, there's just one crucial thing Where the Wild Things Are is missing: wildness.
October 05, 2016
It's gorgeous but slow in parts.
October 16, 2009
Spike Jonze, we salute you.
October 16, 2009
[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.
January 27, 2014
Does leave a lingering impression--but more due to the nagging feeling that it never quite connects than to Jonze actually meeting his grandiose thematic ambitions.
October 16, 2009
Wild Things, you do not make my heart sing.
October 16, 2009
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.
December 11, 2009
'Where the Wild Things Are' stands out for its unusually potent evocation of the timbre of childhood imagining, with its combination of the outré and the banal, grand schemes jumbled up with delicate feelings and the urge to smash things up.
