It is not long before he declares himself a Viking king. He discovers a sailboat that transports him to the faraway land of Wild Things, creatures that nurture childlike ambitions and grudges. Rather than being exiled to his room, the boy, clad in only a wolf costume, runs away into the night. And his adventures with the Wild Things never captivate a viewer. Nonetheless, the boy is too much of a brat to elicit much sympathy.
His single mom (Catherine Keener) must juggle demanding work assignments and a new boyfriend (Mark Ruffalo) while perhaps neglecting her impressionable son.Īn older sister’s self-absorption and a science teacher’s declaration that one day the sun will die don’t help matters. Without a quest to propel the story, such as Dorothy’s journey in “The Wizard of Oz,” the movie turns into an afternoon-special with an easily digested moral that fails to grab youngsters by the collar and shake them up with an exciting adventure.Ī viewer is encouraged to see that Max’s (Max Records) rough play with the family dog and his snowball fights with neighborhood kids are angry reactions to a home life that disturbs him. In the end, the book probably was too slender to support a 102-minute movie. Or maybe it’s just fun to be a wild thing every once and a while.Children might enjoy the goofy monsters and their fights and squabbles, but adults likely are to grow weary of the repetitiveness. Maybe it’s these lessons that make Where The Wild Things Are so popular. Finally, it teaches kids that even when they misbehave, there will always be people that love them. It also teaches children to channel their emotions creatively, to not just be destructive with it. Max is a realistic child that misbehaves and gets angry, too young to really consider the consequences. The book was among the first of its kind to take the emotions of children seriously. But these elements are what made it so popular. People were worried that the book would glorify temper tantrums and other aspects of it were too dark for children. Where The Wild Things Are was met with mixed reviews and even banned in some places. Despite the protest of the wild things, Max returns to his room and his mother, ready for supper. Soon, Max becomes homesick, longing for “…where someone loved him most of all.” Max is taken out of the fantasy when he smells his dinner. They have a wild rumpus, making a lot of commotion in a way only wild things can. The wild things try to frighten and intimidate Max, but when they see that he is unafraid, they make him their king. When he falls asleep, his room transforms into a whimsical land of wild things. Where The Wild Things Are tells the story of Max, an imaginative young boy dressed in a wolf suit who has been sent to bed without supper after misbehaving all day.
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