"Where The Wild Things Are" review by Ben Kenber - FilmArcade.net's MySpace Blog |

Spike Jonze’s take on Maurice Sendak’s “Where The Wild Things Are” is one of the few movies I’ve seen in awhile that actually deals with real kids instead of these stereotypically spoiled movie kids who are way too pampered to our collective annoyance. So many family movies these days are watered down crap, mostly Disney releases, that aim to be as inoffensive as humanly possible. As a result, we find ourselves mocking what we see instead of relating to it. But here, we get a young boy who has quite a vivid imagination that he retreats to when the real world becomes too scary to deal with, and who comes from a broken family that is getting by the best they can. For once, we see kids treated as intelligent and capable of learning more than they knew, and it combines them with things that are real, imaginary, and (of course) wild.

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