I was curious about this one. I read the book once when I was 4, and just thought the kid was crazy. lol Never bothered to pick it up again and give it a look, even when we sold the book at Target when I used to work there. Difference between the book and the movie, the movie's characters personalities are very defined, so much so it makes you feel like your being pulled in.

You see a kid whom tries to fit it, but fails, be a loner and always stay to himself. Which is definitely not out of the ordinary to this world, but what makes this kid different is that he runs away from home, gets on a boat, and ends up on an island with "Wild Things" inhabiting it. He develops a relationship with them, giving them a purpose and trying to bring them a smile in an upside down world of theirs.

I wont go too in detail for the movie as to not ruin it for those whom have not watched it, but I will say that this movie touches base on many things still prevalent to this day in our everyday lives. Joy, happiness, sadness, loneliness, depression, anger, rage, frustration and honesty all exist in the world the Wild Things live in. That is where this movie shines the most. Jim Henson's creature shop developed the body suits for the Wild Things for this movie and they did an incredible job in doing so.

The movie makes you feel crazy, it makes you confused, but once you understand it, it definitely makes for a childlike representation of what life was like or could still be like to those whom never grew up. And that was what I got from this movie, at the end he decided to grow up and face the way he had acted and the things he had done.

8 / 10