'Where the Wild Things Are': Watch movie critics start a rumpus

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Watch this jungle conversation between Lisa and Owen and find out who’s wild and who’s mild about the weekend’s biggest movie! Read the full post.

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a
Wed 10/21/09 10:46 PM

NAY

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ARON
Thu 10/22/09 4:36 PM

I agree with Lisa. I found it very true to the source material and I agree with Lisa’s comment about Owen going back and rereading the book. I liked that there was no tidy plot or tidy ending. Making Where the Wild Things Are was a near impossible task and Spike Jones got it right. Soundtrack was pitch perfect as well. I loved it.

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Karl Leschinsky
Sun 10/25/09 7:38 PM

Once again, there are readers so passionately willing to write off one reviewer or the other because they don’t agree or because of what one said about this or that movie.

They both explains themselves well enough. Their conversation here seems to sum up the mixed reactions from critics. This was enjoyable to watch for that reason.

I love these head-on videos. Every major mag or paper with two critics should do this. It’s an entertaining supplement to their reviews.

As for the movie, haven’t seen it, maybe will, maybe won’t… Seems to be tailored for contemporary emo-skater audiences (who often fall in with immature, unimaginative but ‘wild’, ruckus-causing crowds) and their memories of their unhappy, troubled childhood in their memories but exaggeratedly so because of how unnecessarily morose and sensitive these people are. “Where the mopey things are” as Jim Emerson called it at Scanners…

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JenR
Sun 10/25/09 9:17 PM

I loved the trailer. It gave me chills and filled me with joyous anticipation for the movie.
What a disappointment! The film was boring and sad. Too much child psychology and not enough rumpus! The pacing was terrible. My 11-year-old daughter liked it though. She ignored the boring and gave credit to the things she found funny. She mainly cites the goat creature running into the tree as the thing she liked.

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wendyk
Mon 10/26/09 2:13 PM

I normally never agree with Lisa. But I do 100% this time. Spike did not write a movie to have a clear story. He wanted to write a movie actually from a boy’s perspective, not an adult writing a boy. There was a great lengthy article on the movie on the NY Times site a few months ago.

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