Where the Wild Things Are.

Brooding
Dark
Melancholic

Stunning, beautiful and brilliant.

Took my two daughters and three friends of theirs to see it and they all enjoyed it except for the two youngest ones who left near the end out of boredom. The movie actually had some down right terrifying moments and will scare the bajeezus out of some kids. The monsters are just on the edge of being cute and cuddly overgrown teddy bears, and actual monsters that could rip your head off. James Gandolfini as the voice of a monster that suddenly decides to turn on Max is rather intimidating and convincing. Many of the kids in the theater did get edgy and showed some boredom at much of the film as it is long and does require one to pay attention through it. People who do not like this film will probably be like my wife who said it was just "boring".

The whole filming of the movie is done in a fashion that really could not have been more perfect for the story. The monsters play in a forest that looks just like the ones that any one of us might have played in as children. I liked the fact that they did not create a strange fantasy world but used landscapes that could be anywhere in the world.

I was really hoping for a more light-hearted film full of rumpus and playing, but this film is touched by sadness from the opening scene straight to the closing one and some of the kids did cry at the end scenes. It is, as it should be; a journey into the day dreams of a sad troubled nine year old boy.

If you are taking kids to see this just be prepared to find that the film is a great indie style film more for adults than kids and is actually terrifying at points . And that it is one melancholic film.

And we were both crying at the end.

Spike Jonze is a genius. I think it should be a contender for Best Picture!

One of the best movies I've seen in a very, very long time.

Just seems the movie was more of an adult film than a kids movie.

If they give Oscars for voice acting; Gandolfini deserves one.

for a great movie!

Probably my most anticipated film of the year.

which I thought sounded about right - I'm just glad they didn't let Ron Howard et all mess up another childhood classic.

Having seen promos, I decided I'd rather not see it and remember the book instead, as I recall as light-hearted full of rumpus and playing. Daughters class made it into a show in 3d grade.

I learned lucid dreaming to tame the monsters of my dreams in the midst of my fairly wretched childhood from that book. Long before I knew such a term or practice existed or became vogue. I was a very grateful 6 year old.

this interesting...I spent most of my younger life in woods not too far from my house..I've even gone back ( a year ago ) and everything is the same except for the overgrowth

Put a kid with a bunch of childish monsters with self esteem issues in a sort of Wizard of Oz meets Lord of the Flies type thing and they all get together and have wild rumpusses and dirt claude fights for two hours. The monsters were annoying and I wanted to push them over a cliff. It was like watching romper room vs Barny with out a teachers supervision for two hours. And when they weren't crashing and busting things there would be 15 minutes of just boring juvenile dialog about their insecurities and hang ups.

It was so bad and so slow moving I wanted to walk out. It's getting luke warm reviews for the most part at Rotten Tomatoes. Unless the book was your favorite in the world I would stay away. I thought the book was average too. As a kid it did nothing for me.

My grade? is D-

This movie is about a brat kid who meets an even brattier monster, enough said. Not worth your time or money.

The visuals were really cool, and they did a great job mixing puppetry and CGI for the monsters. As for the kid and the monsters interacting... They were all immature and self-centered.

I suppose at the end the kid changed a little bit, when he left that heart with the "C" in the middle of it. The entire movie, he'd been doing those with an "M" inside, or carving his name into whatever he saw fit. maybe by the end he finally leaner that it's not all about him. Not much of a lesson to learn in an hour and a half, but it made him mildly better. Not much though.

I'd say I'd give it a C. Great visuals and stuff, and everything else was disappointing.

And the theater poured out with several (younger) kids crying. My girl's 4, so I think we'll wait for the DVD.