Review of Where the Wild Things Are. Welcome to the land of imagination.

Where the Wild Things Are. Where to begin? Ok. First things first. This is not a movie for kids. It's a bit brutal and scary and it delivers a message to the audience that the tykes won't understand. But all of that aside, it's a cinematic feat. Animation- awesome. Acting- superb. Cenimatography-phonomenal. The story is basicly this. A kid named Max, played by Max Records who does a surprisingly great job opposite people in big monster suits. Carol, the main Wild Thing character, is played by James Gandolfini and knocks this role out of the park. The rest of the Things are parts of Max's emotions. There's the obnoxious loudmouth, the shy guy, the quiet one, the rebel, the helper, and there's one that just sits there the whole time. Before I get off track, we need to get back to the story. Max gets angry with his mother and runs away. After he runs away he ends up in what I like to call "The Land of the Wild Things" and from there he is named king and goes on adventures and wild rumpuses alike. The score is almost perfect as well, with sad ballads and uplifting tunes you can't really go wrong with that either.The Verdict:Where the Wild Things Are is definitely different. Spike Jonze creates an entirely original story to let you connect with your inner child again. It's hard to enjoy if you can't understand it or analyze it correctly. I leave you with this. If you want your inner child to come out and have a wild rumpus for a hour and a half, see this. But if you want your inner child to crap it's pants, see Paranormal Activity. I give Where the Wild Things Are 4.5 truly wild Wild Things our of 5. 4.5/5.