11/12/2009

Where the Wild Things Are

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
I wanted to love this, but Spike Jonze’s take on Maurice Sendak’s classic ode to imagination feels sad and curiously hollow. Despite a few nice moments, the sum (hampered by Karen O’s grating soundtrack) invokes some hipster Levi’s ad, leaving me not only markedly umoved, but often bored and annoyed.

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