Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
Country: US/AUS/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 101m
Director: Spike Jonze
Cast: Max Records, Catherine Keener, Mark Ruffalo, James Gandolfini, Paul Dano, Catherine O'Hara
Synopsis:
Max finds life at home with his single mother and sister frustrating and sails away to an island inhabited by unruly neurotic monsters. Proclaiming himself their king he finds, however, that keeping everyone in the family happy is a lot easier said than done.
Review:
Sendak's book about wild Max and his nocturnal adventure is given feature length treatment here, with animatronic creatures endowed with peculiarly Jonze-like voices and preoccupations: Sendak's inarticulate monsters are instead the competing facets of Max's childish psychology, complete with father and mother figures, love, jealousy and vindictiveness. It works more or less well, and the production aspects are first rate, but is at times as self-conscious and ungainly as its deeply pathetic wild things.
Country: US/AUS/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 101m
Director: Spike Jonze
Cast: Max Records, Catherine Keener, Mark Ruffalo, James Gandolfini, Paul Dano, Catherine O'Hara
Synopsis:
Max finds life at home with his single mother and sister frustrating and sails away to an island inhabited by unruly neurotic monsters. Proclaiming himself their king he finds, however, that keeping everyone in the family happy is a lot easier said than done.
Review:
Sendak's book about wild Max and his nocturnal adventure is given feature length treatment here, with animatronic creatures endowed with peculiarly Jonze-like voices and preoccupations: Sendak's inarticulate monsters are instead the competing facets of Max's childish psychology, complete with father and mother figures, love, jealousy and vindictiveness. It works more or less well, and the production aspects are first rate, but is at times as self-conscious and ungainly as its deeply pathetic wild things.
Country: US/AUS/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 101m
Director: Spike Jonze
Cast: Max Records, Catherine Keener, Mark Ruffalo, James Gandolfini, Paul Dano, Catherine O'Hara
Synopsis:
Max finds life at home with his single mother and sister frustrating and sails away to an island inhabited by unruly neurotic monsters. Proclaiming himself their king he finds, however, that keeping everyone in the family happy is a lot easier said than done.
Review:
Sendak's book about wild Max and his nocturnal adventure is given feature length treatment here, with animatronic creatures endowed with peculiarly Jonze-like voices and preoccupations: Sendak's inarticulate monsters are instead the competing facets of Max's childish psychology, complete with father and mother figures, love, jealousy and vindictiveness. It works more or less well, and the production aspects are first rate, but is at times as self-conscious and ungainly as its deeply pathetic wild things.