First things first, this is definitely not a kids film in any way. In fact at the showing that I saw this one family walked out after about 5 minutes, and another very noisy family with annoying speaking kids lasted about 45 mins. Good riddance I say. So its about a kid called Max who after a run in with his parents runs away to a place where the wild things are, part of his imagination with each of the creatures like a big kid themselves and it could be said each one a part of Max. The creatures are unpredictable and don’t always make sense much like childhood.
It’s quite hard to talk about the film much more as it like watching a collection of emotions and feelings that remind you, sitting there as an adult, what it was like to be a child and how simple and yet complicated it was. The young actor Max Records who plays Max is a real find, such an honest actor and you can see in his face the realisation of him coming to terms with all the swirling emotions that are racing around this island and his head. And simple look that he gives his mother at the end of the film speaks volumes about what he’s learnt or realised and what he is still experiencing. Quite simply a beautiful film, which won’t make you wish you were a kid again but will bring back all those memories of the feelings you had.
4.5 stars
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