Where the Wild Things Are | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

A mood piece, a wholly transporting and wonderful film that exists in that special realm where the young and the young at heart meet.

Here's a film that manages to stay true to its roots, while expanding it into new depths that will surely please all the book's fans.

It's a brilliant film in how it gives our character an opportunity to confront himself and his mother and realize they are both imperfect but trying.

This isn't just an adaptation of a beloved children's book-it's a reworking of the story that captures the essence of the thing and blows it out in a way that's both unexpected and familiar.

The emotional departure Max finally takes from the Wild Things almost redeems the rest of the film in its wordless anguish. Yet, for all that, it still doesn't have the charm of the brief original.