Comments on: CAPSULE: WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE (2009) http://366weirdmovies.com/capsule-where-the-wild-things-are-2009 Celebrating the cinematically surreal, bizarre, cult, oddball, fantastique, psychotronic, and the just plain WEIRD! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:06:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Delia Kadish http://366weirdmovies.com/capsule-where-the-wild-things-are-2009/comment-page-1#comment-10832 Delia Kadish Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:44:49 +0000 http://366weirdmovies.com/?p=5977#comment-10832 Thanks for the article, your site looks cool! I have wanted to watch Where the Wild Things Are since it came out but I haven't had the chance yet. This totally made me want to see it even more! Thanks for the article, your site looks cool! I have wanted to watch Where the Wild Things Are since it came out but I haven’t had the chance yet. This totally made me want to see it even more!

]]> By: Gray West http://366weirdmovies.com/capsule-where-the-wild-things-are-2009/comment-page-1#comment-3813 Gray West Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:15:00 +0000 http://366weirdmovies.com/?p=5977#comment-3813 It's true - I think the advertising for this one is fairly misleading. Not a movie to take the kids to see. Although there's nothing objectionable in it, I just can't imagine kids being interested in it beyond the fantastical monsters and settings. I was expecting something more along the lines of a similar movie: Labyrinth (1986). That was a film that I loved for the storyline as a kid. But I found more to enjoy about it as an adult - the whole movie is basically an ode to growing up and letting go of childish things, yet admitting that there are still times when we NEED those things. It was simple and elegant, and the message never got in the way of a good movie for all ages. I still enjoyed Where the Wild Things Are. But to me, it was more of an "intellectual" treatise on childhood. I was just hoping that the movie would remind me on an emotional level of the fun of childhood. On the other hand, maybe that's why WTWTA is important - are there any other movies about childhood that speak mainly to adults? It’s true – I think the advertising for this one is fairly misleading. Not a movie to take the kids to see. Although there’s nothing objectionable in it, I just can’t imagine kids being interested in it beyond the fantastical monsters and settings.

I was expecting something more along the lines of a similar movie: Labyrinth (1986). That was a film that I loved for the storyline as a kid. But I found more to enjoy about it as an adult – the whole movie is basically an ode to growing up and letting go of childish things, yet admitting that there are still times when we NEED those things. It was simple and elegant, and the message never got in the way of a good movie for all ages.

I still enjoyed Where the Wild Things Are. But to me, it was more of an “intellectual” treatise on childhood. I was just hoping that the movie would remind me on an emotional level of the fun of childhood.

On the other hand, maybe that’s why WTWTA is important – are there any other movies about childhood that speak mainly to adults?

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