Dominic Holden says:

The Wild Things take on the characteristics of Max's emotions and fractured family: an overworked single mom, an awkward boy, and a teenage sister outgrowing her kid brother's antics. The beasts still have terrible teeth and claws—and the animapuppemagic of the Things is utterly convincing—but they are jealous, petty, insecure, passive-aggressive things. Not wild things.

And the debate rages!

Thanks for crushing my dreams.

What I find interesting is that both the positive reviews and negative reviews say pretty much the same things—that the beasts are melancholic, the tone of the film hyper-emotional. If you're the sort of person who remembers childhood as being sort of empty and sad, if you've ever defended Morrissey's solo work, if you're the sort who cried every time the Arcade Fire song in the previews hit the big, Hallelujah chorus (don't look at me like that) . . . you'll probably enjoy the film (or so I'm hoping).

I've been waiting for a 'kid's movie' to tackle realisic 'kid's' emotions ever since E.T. I want a 'kid's' movie that is as much for adults as it is for the little ones. I want a 'kid's' movie that will make me FEEL something other than sick that I wasted my $15 on effects with no soul behind them. Seems like this film goes there. I can't wait to see it.

I could not agree more! Thanks for giving an honest review of this movie, rather than stroking Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers. This movie was absolutely awful, an hour and a half of my life I'll never get back! If you say you liked it, you're a liar!

Read the full review—and join the fray—HERE.