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Director: Spike Jonze
Actors: Max Records, Catherine Keener, Mark Ruffalo, Lauren Ambrose, Chris Cooper
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $28.98
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Sales Rank: 1383
Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Running Time: 101 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 085391189930
UPC: 085391189930
EAN: 0085391189930
ASIN: B001HN699A
Theatrical Release Date: October 16, 2009
Release Date: March 2, 2010
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Product Description
An adaptation of maurice sendaks classic childrens story where max a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper creates his own world--a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown max as their ruler. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 03/02/2010 Starring: Max Records Run time: 101 minutes Rating: Pg
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Through his handcrafted ode to the trials of childhood, Spike Jonze puts his own unique imprint on Maurice Sendak's enduring classic. In the prologue, 9-year-old Max (Max Records) stomps around the house, feeling neglected. When his mom (Catherine Keener) sends him to bed without supper, Max runs away (something he doesn't do in the book). He finds a boat and sails to a distant land where fuzzy monsters are raising a rumpus in the forest. Since his wolf suit allows him to fit right in, he joins the fray, catching the eye of Carol (James Gandolfini, excellent), who notes, approvingly, "I like the way you destroy stuff. There's a spark to your work that can't be taught." With that, they pronounce the diminutive creature king, hoping he can bring cohesion to their fractured family. After Max comes across Carol's scale-model town, he decides they should build a real one, but the project stalls as Alexander (Paul Dano) and Douglas (Chris Cooper) mope, Judith (Catherine O'Hara) browbeats Ira (Forest Whitaker), and Carol pines for K.W. (Lauren Ambrose), who prefers the company of owls Bob and Terry. Max realizes he has to make a choice: stay with the wild things or return home, where he has to keep his aggressive impulses in check. For readers of Sendak's slim tome, his decision won't come as a surprise, but Jonze ends the story on a lovely grace note. Until that time, the squabbling is a bit much--these monsters never stop talking--but Jonze, cowriter Dave Eggers, the Jim Henson Company, and singer/songwriter Karen O. have gone all-out to re-create the inner world of a child with as much empathy as was mustered for the inner adult world of Jonze's Being John Malkovich. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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 For parents: this movie IS for kids. February 10, 2010
James Goff (Wisconsin)
75 out of 110 found this review helpful
If you took your kids to see this and though or have heard from other parents that this movie is inappropriate for children, then go ahead and continue to make movies like G-Force and Alvin and the Chimpmonks top grossing movies, because that's what you're looking for. You're not looking for a movie tailor made to make you actually have to discuss with your kids what they saw. You obviously are looking for giant commercials to flash in front of your children that will sell them toys and music so they are distracted long enough for you to have some "peace and quiet". I mean, god forbid you would have to actually TALK to your children about what they watch and what it means or what lessons the main character learned and what deep seeded actual EMOTIONS your kids go through every day. Or ask your children if they have ever had to imagine they were somewhere else to make sense of the incomprehensible feelings they have and don't understand.
This is the most realistic interpretation of what REAL kids feel and think since, well forever. And if you think the subjects, actions, and feelings are unrealistic to how kids all over feel today, then seriously start being a parent and actually talk to your kids.
good March 8, 2010
elfdart
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
i never really saw the attraction of this book when i was a child so was a bit hesitant about seeing this movie, but it was pretty good, better than the book in my opinion.
the story loosely follows the book but only structurally. it leaves a lot of room for interpretation, which i think was a necessary choice to make a feature film longer than ten minutes. luckily the interpretation was well done and really drew upon feelings people have about their childhood, but i'd like to say that this is not a movie for children. first of all, the characters on the island's heads are disproportionate to their bodies, which makes the facial features larger. while i enjoy this now in an artistic sense, when i was young the exaggerated facial features creeped me out a bit, and i could for-see it intimidating small children, especially if there are large teeth and threats of being eaten. the overall tone of the movie has a threatening, uncertain sort of atmosphere, almost as if the viewer feeling like there isn't peace or that the peace won't last long. also, i don't think this is a children's film because the mess max created doesn't get resolved, he just leaves. there is unrest both when he arrives and when he leaves, but tough he tries he doesn't solve it or even clean up the mess he makes. before he leaves one of the monsters says that max is sort of insignificant, that he's too small to effect change. there's also a weird part where max climbs into kw's mouth to hide.. and these kinds of things aren't usually what you'd see in your typical children's film.
as an adult film however, this movie was great. i thought that the way the movie was set up expressed an impression a person would have of their childhood when they were reminiscing about it. max is childhood personified. he has an amazing imagination and lives his life from the perspective of this imagination. everything is taken to the extreme, like when a child wants something but doesn't get it it's the end of the world, or if a child is excited about something a whole new world is possible. the story was almost dystopian because of the fact that max can't make the monsters happy. after a while he just stopped trying and went home to his mom so that he didn't have to deal with it anymore. it's almost like in peter pan where the lost boys need a mother, but there's no wendy here. max just sort of used the monsters to realize that he needed a mother because he was as lost and as afraid as they were. the film finishes with a feel good moment as max eats dinner with his mom after he comes home, and theres a sense that everything worked out and he has love, which was the problem with the monsters, they didn't have anyone loving them.
though i'd be hesitant to take someone under 6 or 7 to see it, it was a good movie about a child's imagination and search for love
AMAZING... April 25, 2010
Christopher A. Knarr (Indiana)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This movie gave me everything I wanted out of it and more... The visuals, the music, the ideals, and more come together to create the kids view of the world, while also leaving open for interpretation the reflections of Max within the monsters and viewing the world according to Max... It is incredibly powerful and moving and for me especially, the last moments with the mother created a sense of overwhelming need to want to be with my mother again, which at the time of watching I was over 3000 miles away from her... great movie, great imagery and imagination, and an amazing connection!
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