Genre – Adventure; Drama
Director – Spike Jonze
Cast – Max Records, Pepita Emmerichs
Release date-16th October 2009
Rated-PG

Where the wild things are is a story about Max (Max Records), a young boy who is always misunderstood and all he wants all the time is to have fun. Soon he gets fed up of the way his life is shaping up. One day, he runs away from home. Running, he enters a forest and while running through it, he comes across a boat. He sits on the boat and begins sailing. After some days of sailing in the sea, he reaches an island one night. This island seems strange to Max. While walking on the island, he hears some sort of arguing. He sees a strange seen unfolding before his eyes. The ones arguing are some sort of wild creatures. One of them, Carol, is disrupting the huts and screaming while the other creatures are shouting and yelling at Carol trying to stop his destructive activities. Suddenly Max emerges from among the trees and begins to destroy the huts along with Carol. This angers the other wild creatures and they decide to eat him up. To stop them, Max cooks up a wild tale. He tells them that he is the King of the place from where he comes endowed with special powers and that it would be impossible for them to eat him.

Carol then makes Max the king of all wild creatures on that island. Slowly the wild creatures introduce themselves. Max is shown his kingdom by Carol, who also leads him to a secret hideaway where he finds a miniature island built. Then Max and his wild subjects build a giant fortress.

Slowly, differences begin to crop up between Max and the wild creatures. With time, the wild creatures find out that Max is no king and has no special powers. Max then manages to escape and run, with Carol in pursuit. KW helps him hide and finally after all the adventure, Max decides that it is about time he returned home. But, in the mean time, Carol realises how much he misses Max and how much their friendship meant to him. Finally, Max returns home to a worried and an elated mother.

This movie is based on an adaptation of a book written by Maurice Sandak. This is a classic children’s book and since it is a five minute children’s book, it would have impossible to stretch it to make a two-hour using the story verbatim. So it is no surprise then that there a lot of new turns added to the story. The movie previews and the trailers seem really catchy and exciting.

Perhaps, the best part of the movie is that in spite the complex nature of the story, it is kept simple and its small nuances come across very clearly in their meaning. The story ends with Max trying to better the lives of the wild creatures and end their loneliness. He sees the reflection of his own life in them.

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