"Where the Wild Things are" Review

I've always wondered how reviewers get to a stage where they feel the need to blast out their opinions on the internet, but after watching several movies in the last few weeks that were praised by such people although hated by myself I can finally understand the appeal. Watching “Where the wild things are” was one of the times I most felt like this. After reading and watching a couple reviews, I found the general consensus was that the movie was quite good and the main concern was that it was too adultish for children, well I have to say... What the fuck did these people watch?

I personally have never read the book, or even seen it for that record. I didn't know it existed until very recently to tell you the truth, for all I know it's a fantastic read. But if the book is anywhere near as pointless as the movie then I'm glad I was raised reading Babar and The Magic School Bus.

The basic premise of the movie alone makes me want to slice my wrists, a socially inept Max has an argument with his mother in which he bites her and runs off to imagine giant monster like creatures and becomes their king. It's as if a child's brain vomited all over a sheet of paper, and Spike Jonze decided it would be good to make it into a movie.

I admit there have been worse things made by this man, for example he wrote the Jackass movies, but as the director of such original and entertaining films as “Being John Malkovich” and “Adaptation” under his belt I at least had some positive interest in this film, but fuck... The plot is, well, was there a plot? I feel that nothing really happened, very little was resolved, and what was resolved was not explained well. I have to admit though, it was aesthetically stunning, especially knowing that there was very little CGI on the monsters, other then the faces of course.

James Gandolfini (formerly Tony Soprano for fuck sake!) is wasted as the main monster Carol, who has a confusing relationship with the other creatures like maybe they're all only being nice to him in case he murders them all brutally in their sleep. The confusing relationship problems between Judith and Ira (another wasted voice of Forest Whitaker) are never investigated let alone explained. Also the interactions between KW and some owls is a meaningless and confusing addition to the movie that again is never resolved or explained.

All in all I walked out with more questions then answers, one of them being, “How the hell did this movie get funding?” and another being “Why the hell does everyone love it?”