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Where The Wild Things Are
knives:
--- Quote from: pen on 17 Oct 2009, 07:25 ---I heard it really wasn't appropriate for young kids. This true?
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I'm not sure if appropriate is the right word, but the degree that little ones will appreciate the movie may be varied. As long as they're above eight I'm sure they'll be fine.
Toba:
I have heard same the things you guys have heard, both about it and how good it is. I suppose I'll see it if I am going to the movies and don't know what to see.
TheFuriousWombat:
Saw it tonight. I really liked it. I would say, however, that I don't think it is in any way a kids movie. It's fairly unrelentingly dark. It's bleak and sad and full of loneliness and anger and bitterness and self loathing and misery. I think it's guaranteed to scare and confuse and sadden children. Yes, it's fairly magical and whimsical but it's also strange and kind of tragic. If anything, it's a very sad look at how the loneliness and angst Max experiences in his life is so profound that even in his wildest imagination he cannot escape it; it seeps in and corrupts his own creations. I can't imagine, considering David Egers wrote and Spike Jonez directed, that the movie was intended to show that the imagination may be powerful but it can't offer a genuine escape, even for a child, but nonetheless that's kind of what I felt it was saying in the end. So long story short, I liked it, found it fairly beautiful even, but would say absolutely do not go expecting anything resembling light children's fare. In fact, I would say don't bring a child to this movie at all.
Ikrik:
I think it's weird that a book that's considered one of the best books for children turns into a movie that isn't at all suitable for them. My girlfriend never read the book as a small child but we're seeing the movie tonight. Hopefully it will be nice.
Blue Kitty:
If anything I think this film was depressing. An awesome film, and a pretty good representation of the book, but depressing. I finally cried at the end and my girlfriend was pretty close to tears.
I can't say whether or not you should bring children to this. There were some moments that were kind of scary, but nothing that I think would make a kid run out screaming. I didn't hear any of the kids in the theater crying.
The one thing I didn't like about the film is the ending. It seemed abrupt and I was waiting for something more to happen. Even worse is that we didn't get to see the credits because of a movie screw up.
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