movie review - Where The Wild Things Are
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-seven years and one million words
Toronto, 2011.11.13
This is an ambitious book based on the children's book by the same name. Stretching a bed-time story into a feature length and retaining - well, anything - is quite a stretch but I think they nailed it with this one. The basic story of a young boy taking a flight of fantasy to an island populated with monsters is retained. The wild nature of those monsters, and a vague sense of underlying violence and menace in the monster's world is accentuated beautifully for the big screen. The boy does some growing up in this film, and it's good viewing.
Recommended.