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Movie Stills from Where the Wild Things Are

A Taste of the Gnashing, Rolling, and Roaring / Dustin Rowles

Trade News | March 23, 2009 | Comments (27)

There were a slew of new movie stills for Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are released over the weekend, and they give you a better idea of what we can expect from the film, specifically no CGI. It’s hard to make a lot of sense of the flick from the images, although it’s starting to look a little like this generation’s Neverending Story. The Wild Things look low-tech, but cool; scary but cuddly; fierce by friendly. The images have a certain 80s Saturday morning feel.

It’s still hard to tell how they plan to expand seven sentences into a full-length flick, but it does appear that there will be a lot of time spent in Wild Things land — a quest, perhaps? Max will have to find the ring or something before he’s allowed to go back and get that hot meal waiting for him?

Well, if it does well, we can all look forward to Mickey in the Kitchen, which is kind of a messed up book, if you think about it. “Mickey in the Batter”? The Chefs are cooking Mickey, you know? That’s their secret ingredient to their morning cake.

Anyway, here are those images:


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Comments

Why is it that whenever children act up in a film there's plenty of Milk and Mazola oil just sitting around in the kitchen? What's the plan, to lull them into submission by making them drink a mixture of the two, which would trigger a massive bowel evacuating event? Yeah, good parenting Hollywood!

Posted by: Mike R. at March 23, 2009 9:37 AM

What? These look - good? How - how did this happen?

I was ambivalent at best about this project, but the images give me that warm, fuzzy, Princess Bride and Labyrinth feeling all over, and suddenly I'm seven years old and when does this come out again? Because I want to cuddle that monster.

Those stills are Magically Muppetlicious and pretty much made my day, so thanks, Pajiba!

Posted by: Tammy at March 23, 2009 10:03 AM

These look great! I especially love the one on the kitchen table. I would have gotten the beating of a lifetime had I ever attempted that.

Posted by: io at March 23, 2009 10:04 AM

I smell a best picture nomination.

Posted by: George at March 23, 2009 10:08 AM

MMMmmmmm warm fuzziness.

Posted by: admin at March 23, 2009 10:12 AM

i was really traumatized that another childhood favorite was going to be hollywood-ized into something unrecognizable, but these stills make me want to put max and the wild things in my pocket! dangit, now i have high expectations, and that's never good...

Posted by: aprileee at March 23, 2009 10:19 AM

Is that Keener? I loves me some Keener.

I'm suddenly reminded of the imaginary friend I had when I was little... Did anyone else have (or still has) an imaginary friend?

Posted by: Sofía at March 23, 2009 10:22 AM

I saw an advanced early early early screening of this. It was TERRIBLE. The voiceover work is atrocious, the main wild thing being voiced by James Gandolfini. So while it looks really cool, the monster sounds like a fucking mobster from Jersey. The movie isn't really a quest, it's more like wandering around the woods for a while trying to build a fortress. It looks AMAZING, at least the effects that were rendered did, but the story is awful. It made me want to fucking die. It's creepy, and disturbingly sexual. And I love Spike Jonze.

Posted by: hatemail at March 23, 2009 10:29 AM

Thanks, hatemail. I was just going to say, "well...still photos are one thing, but having an actual plot with good dialog is something else." Apparently, you saw the "something else" and it is rotten. No surprise, really, considering the source material's incredibly brief narrative.

Posted by: B-Unit at March 23, 2009 10:33 AM

The stills look beautiful, but I'm cautiously optimistic. I've been burned before.

Posted by: Kayanne at March 23, 2009 10:36 AM

Well they are fixing things. It'll be different in the actual release than the advanced screening. Besides, my favorite childhood movie faced the same problems in production, but was changed at the last minute, that movie was Toy Story 2.

Posted by: George at March 23, 2009 10:38 AM

Rowles, I somewhat disappointed in your rather bland selection of columns you’ve given us to comment on today.

Posted by: Pookie at March 23, 2009 10:40 AM

*I'm*

Posted by: Pookie at March 23, 2009 10:42 AM

Yeah, that's Catherine Keener.

Posted by: Jay at March 23, 2009 11:01 AM

I'm a sucker for a snuggly monster.

Posted by: Kolby at March 23, 2009 11:13 AM

You are Kolby? Well then.

Posted by: Pookie at March 23, 2009 11:26 AM

Are you saying you're covered in hair? Like Jake Gyllenhaal in Prince of Persia hairy or Alec Baldwin in pretty much anything hairy?

Posted by: Kolby at March 23, 2009 11:49 AM

Mickey in the Kitchen

Um, Rowles, you have me confused. Do you mean In the Night Kitchen? Or has a movie based on that book already been greenlit and they've changed the title?

Oh, the stills look wonderful. I have high hopes for Spike Jonze. Please, please do not fuck this up.

Posted by: tamatha at March 23, 2009 12:04 PM

I peed a little when I saw these. Don't care what the 'advance screening' shitters say. The advance screening version has basically been completely redone...hence the delay. And even with negative reviews...i would see this anyhow. No way it can be as bad as The Grinch or Cat In The Hat. And if it is...I think it'll be easier to beat up the child playing Max, than it would be to beat up Jim Carrey or Mike myers. Jim Carrey, I'm pretty certain, is section 8 all the way and crazy people tend to keep coming till you kill them. Mike Myers...well I would just feel bad striking a retard.

Posted by: PissBoy at March 23, 2009 12:06 PM

I'm still very optimistic about the combo (and guarding my love for the original). It's not going to be completely new material, but the bare-bones original story leaves the door wide open for Jonze to (hopefully) come up with a good riff on it.

Posted by: branded at March 23, 2009 12:12 PM

Oh, this looks adorable.

“Mickey in the Batter”? The Chefs are cooking Mickey, you know?

At least it's not Mickey in the Baby Batter.

Posted by: SaBrina at March 23, 2009 12:20 PM

Advance screenings = shit

This looks great, I find myself even more excited to see the trailer with Arcade Fire's "Wake Up" blaring in the background. It's going to be glorious.

Posted by: Mick J at March 23, 2009 12:26 PM

Oh, lovely. I almost don't want to see the movie for fear of it ruining the gorgeous impressions of the photo stills.

Let the Wild Rumpus begin.

Posted by: Sweetie Dahling at March 23, 2009 12:32 PM

It's funny you should mention In the Night Kitchen. I just watched an animated version of it last night on one of my son's Scholastic DVD's of animated children's books.

Maurice Sendak just needs put down the mushrooms. That stuff is just creepy.

Posted by: Codeman at March 23, 2009 12:34 PM

And people think Dr. Manhattan's penis is controversial. Jeez-o-petes!

Posted by: Jay at March 23, 2009 1:21 PM

Gorgeous pictures, I can't WAIT.

Posted by: Julie at March 23, 2009 1:25 PM

These images look absolutely gorgeous, and I love that it's not going to be CGI. It's refreshing to actually see a movie where the actors interact with real "creatures", instead of a tennis ball on a stick. I'm psyched!

The one of them running through the snow/desert/whatever reminds me of the Banana Splits. In a good way.

Posted by: figgy at March 23, 2009 2:42 PM





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