Where The Wild Things Are!?
September 2, 2009 by Kevin Lind
Filed under Entertainment, Movie Reviews
Can we talk about this for a minute? Where the Wild Things Are coming out as a movie this fall? Oh hell yeah. I mean, it was not too shabby back in the day when we were kids hearing our parents read aloud ‘Let the wild rumpus start!’ or simply imagining yourself – page by page – drifting off in the land where the wild things are.
So now, rather than simply let it exist as the hugely successful children’s book that it is, Spike Jonze, Maurice Sendak, and writer/editor Dave Eggers decided to blow our mind grapes by adapting it for the screen in what looks to be one of the sweetest adaptations of literature to film of all time.
The costumes are estatic, the voices seem accurate, and the overall feel of the project is one that we all might really enjoy – I mean, every last one of us who ever imagined someplace slightly more animated than their current surroundings – and all the different shapes and sizes we come in. I mean, it looks like it just might be one of those films that reaches the whole spectrum of audiences.
The cast is pretty exemplary as well with Catherine Keener, Mark Ruffalo, James Gandolfini, Forest Whitaker and young Max Records playing the King of the Wild Things himself. And just when the cast, concept and production team were seemingly enough they used Arcade Fire’s ‘Wake Up’ for the trailer. Boom.
So fair enough, I am obviously a fan of this project and am clearly interested in how it will be received, but can you really blame me? I may be basing this reaction solely off the previews and my prejudices towards extremely talented people working together but still, it looks like we may all be in for a serious treat. I would suggest that in the time between here and October 16th, we all get really excited. I mean, like really excited.
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I never ever read that book, even when I was a kid so I don’t have any overwhelming urge to see it. I think they should make the Super Friends into a movie instead.