My wife always read to our 3 sons (now 25, 22, 19), and one of their favorite books was "Where the Wild Things Are". Being nostalgic, they were pretty interested in the movie. I was interested in how they would take a 10 sentence book and make a 2 hour movie out of it. So we all went and saw it Saturday night.

Well, I think it sucked. My family didn't get it either. Yeah, the monster animation was pretty cool for one minute, but for 90 or so minutes (they didn't make 2 hours), it was pretty boring. There was no plot, it was just dumb. I couldn't make out any kind of story line, other than a little brat making up an adventure with completely random scenes.

It definitely wasn't a little kid movie, but there were lots of people there with toddler to teenager kids. At some points, I was thinking, "I bet this is scaring the H-E-double-toothpicks out of these little kids". I wonder how many recurring nightmares have been propagated by it :)

Anyway, if you are thinking about taking your kids or grandkids, spend the money on a nice hardbound book copy and read it with them instead. FWIW, YMMV.

My kids also grew up on that book and have been planning to go see it over Thanksgiving. Sad to hear it stinks. They are looking forward to to see it.

I never saw what was so wonderful about the book, myself.

cruddy book = cruddy movie

Did you see the English author giving his opinion about the people that didn't like his stuff?

One of the fav's of the kids.

Frankly I don't remember much about the book.

We just enjoyed the time reading to them.:thumbsup:

My 5 year old daughter wanted to see "Rainging Meatballs" instead...and we did