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Where the Wild Things Suck

Reviewer calls Spike Jonze flick “an arthouse film”

If Warner Bros. was hoping for a big family hit with the $90 million adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are, they may want to think again. “Spike Jonze has … created an arthouse film about childhood that had our family-filled audience buzzing with chattering, bored children,” writes Massawyrm at Ain’t It Cool News. Massawyrm writes that the film’s arthouse tendencies are “lyrical” and “beautiful,” but that as a “fun adventure film” it’s an “absolute failure”: “Anyone looking for a good time has signed on for the wrong boat ride to the worst possible island.” The film is “beautiful to see,” the review ends, but “not powerful or moving enough to recommend. … I wanted to love it, I really, really did, but I was just too bored to.”