“Can you fix loneliness?” , that was the first phrase that told me it wasn’t for kids. The dialog it’s so strong and I thinks why it’s hard to digest is because it comes from these “wild things”. But also if you haven’t experience these issues they are dealing with it will be hard to understand.

I felt identify with these characters. They talked about thing that normally we don’t talk about, we just act like it. Destructiveness, insecurity, jealousy, sadness, loneliness. From my experience it came from parents getting divorce and me having to deal with their new couples (Bob and Terry).

I don’t know why Jonze did it like that, but it seem that it’s made from personal point of view. He is too precise some things, he went straight to the core and to know this is because you have experience it.

It’s amazing that from a story that is so short, people had their own movie made in their heads of what it was about. By the way I loved the movie. I think everyone has their own version of the “wild thing” and at the end of the day you just have to go back to reality. The movie is Jonze’s version.

Something you mentioned caught my attention:

The parents are probably going to get more out of its astoundingly mature message than any of their kids will.

This is the mark of a great family film, isn’t it? Something that amuses the kiddies, but stands up to the grown ups and says dares them to dismiss it as kiddie fare. You’ve hit the nail on the head, so here here!

This movie was in for a tough time when it came to broadening out the story, and in that respect I think Jonze and Eggers did as well as could possibly be expected. It’s no sort of instant classic, but it’s a fitting adaptation of the storybook we all grew up with.

Great review! Glad I finally got mine written so I can start to read everybody else’s