Where The Wild Things Are

Last night I went to see the new film based on the popular children's book, Where the Wild Things Are, as I have been looking forward to this film for quite a few months now and wanted to see how they would make an entire film based on a book that was about 38 pages long. The film does not take on the plot of the book but more expands upon it taking the idea and making a dark, playful tale based through the imagination of one little boy.

The film is about a young boy named Max who is a troublesome person, wearing a whole body suit with whiskers on it, being brought up by a single mother of two and during an incident Max creates to get his own selfish way runs away from home and through the power of a child's mind sails to an island inhabited by seven very tall monstrous creatures who are all very depressed with the way their lives have all turned out and would do anything to ll be very happy again. So when Max arrived and starts helping the strongest and most angry of the beast destroy all their homes the other gets angry with this and try to eat him, but due to a very imaginative and extremely impossible lie becomes their king to rule for them for all time, or until they are all depressed again and decide to eat him.

Max comes to befriend the beast Carol who just wants them all to stay together and all be happy and have things the way he wants and believes that this can only be done through Max and will defend anything he says trusting that he will keep them this way forever but when things start to get even worse than they were before Carol tends to loose his temper and threatens the little boy and chasing him intending to kill him very violently.

This in my opinion was a very good film that is defiantly not for younger children, even though it is based on a child's book it is not for them, more a film of a child for adults told through the eyes of a child with a very wold and at times disturbing imagination. What I really enjoyed about it was the lack of special affects as it felt very natural and the whole island was part of the story and how each part worked in with the plot, such as who owned what being a hole in a tree or a rock on the ground. It is a very dark story and a very depressing one and everyone is depressed for most of the film and at times did get a bit uncomfortable to watch as you really though that they were actually going to end the film with these beasts eating the young boy as part of his punishment for not keeping them happy, and just how angry the all got was very believable and worked very well with the tone of the movie. The monsters had some heart to them with all their deep emotions and anger, jealousy, love, loneliness and hatred, all had an element of Max's own emotions helping him realize just how lucky he is and that he has no need to be the way he is and through the course of the film we see that through every beast's emotion he is realizing just how much they are all his own.

Overall this was a really good film and would recommend you go and see it, but would advise that taking young children would be very frightened of this and would want to leave not very far into the film as it is a slow film and has the same sort of tone all the way through the film and would even think that kid's could even have nightmares about this, the maker's made a film of a child, not a film for a child.