Let the wild rumpus begin!
Where the Wild Things Are is one of my favorite books of all time. I was kind of annoyed when I first heard they were making a movie out of it. For two reasons:
1. Because they are already totally bastardizing my entire childhood with all the of the crappy remakes and adaptations in the works. Like this one. And this one. Oh and I can’t forget this half-assed sequel to the scary and awesome Witch Mountain movies.
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2. Because most children’s movies these days are dumbed-down piecs of sh*t with totally uninteresting animation.
Seriously! I look back at the movies like Labyrinth that I used to watch over and over and I wonder why there aren’t loads of magical movies are for kids now. For every one that looks even decent, there is a crapload of Hannah Montana or Ice Age in Madagascar with Dancing Penguins.
I soon felt assured that I had no reason to be worried. After looking into more about the film, I found out several interesting things that made me more excited for this film – Spike Jonze writing + directing, Dave Eggars co-writing, Karen O scoring… yes, this was getting better and better.
And then pictures started surfacing and holy hell, does it look amazing!
Today there is an unbelievably beautiful trailer out. I am not even going to embed it, just please click on this link to go to Apple Trailers and watch as big and as High-Def as you possibly can.
Along with Coraline and Tim Burton’s upcoming Alice in Wonderland (and of course the Harry Potter films), I am hoping that more visionary films like this will be coming along for today’s youth. There are tons of amazing books out there, but kids also need the films that are a little bit weird, a little bit spooky and totally otherworldly magical.
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