Reviews of Where the Wild Things Are 2009
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My favourite book from my childhood masterfully crafted into an epic adventure by Spike Jonze. It's everything a children's movie should be: Scary, emotional and imaginative. The visuals are perfect and the combination of giant fur suits with CGI faces is nothing short of brilliant. The icing on the cake is the phenomenal soundtrack .
This movie deals with the problems of being a child and how the power of imagination can defeat any obstacles. Spike Jonze manages to deliver this simple story in a way that both children and grown ups can enjoy. A tightrope between fun and danger in a land of imagination.
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Some films are about things; literal things, with characters you recognise and narratives you can retell to your friends. Some films get a little deeper; offer some profundity we can apply to our own emotions and experiences. And then there’s the exceptions, films that don’t rely on laborious streams of words and concepts, but are instead more akin to a leisurely drive through a consciousness long forgotten. They are those films that have visceral, human qualities that are hard to…
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So much crying.
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I re-watched this movie last night and loved it as much as the day we say it in the theatre with my wife and our then 9 year old son.
As far as I'm concerned this is a story about rage that fizzles out leaving loneliness, sadness from which understanding is gained. We've all had moments where we bit into someone, figuratively or literally, only to have the rage that brought us to that point leave us. Hopefully as was…
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What a beautiful film and while I haven't seen Adaption yet this solidifies for me that Spike Jonze is one of the most interesting and versatile directors working today. Believe it or not, but I'm not actually familiar with the source material, so Where The Wild Things Are was to me a completely new world and one I am happy to have been invited to. I haven't been transformed into my inner child like this since My Neighbor Totoro and…
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I'll admit. I'm not really familiar nor heard of the name 'Maurice Sendak' before in my life. His name does ring a very faint bell but doesn't do much for me. A quick search reveals that he's a famous illustrator and wrote several children's book that went on and became very well-known, one of them being 'Where the Wild Things Are'. I, again, did a quick search and downloaded the book that's consist of 40 odd pages or so somewhere…
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Pasaciņa ne visiem. Īpaši jau NE visādu gredzenu pavēlnieku un Nārnijas hroniku un Harijpoteru izlaistajiem. Šeit nav ne grandiozu cīņu, ne pārspīlētu kvestu, ne fantāziju vai reālu pasauļu glābšana. No tāda aspekta var teikt, ka te pat nekas īpašs nenotiek. Parasts zēns nokļūst uz salas pie dīvainiem briesmonīšiem un kļūst par viņu karali. Viņi dauzās, uzceļ savdabīgu cietoksni, pakašķējas savā starpā un beigās zēns atgriežas mājās. Tas, kas šo stāstu padara īpašu ir katra paša aizdomāšanās līdz tam KUR ir šī sala, KAS ir šie briesmonīši un KAPĒC tādas savstarpējas attiecības... Filma ar īpašu noskaņu un pēcgaršu, kas rada vēlmi to skatīties vēl kādu reizi.
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Probablemente el mejor film sobre la infancia que se ha hecho. Una película llena de sentimiento, emoción, belleza visual... Un viaje sobre los conflictos internos y los miedos en la niñez. Absolutamente maravillosa.
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This motion Picture is absolutely amazing! Can we call it "Wizard of Oz" of this era? Yes we do! Jonze made a work of art for all ages.
This is a dream, this is a movie lovers dream. -
cute movie
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the movie is so beautiful! the narrative isn't so good but the landscapes and the soundtrack compensates.