Where the Wild Things Are Trailer 2

There Is Reason Go To On in a Post John Hughes World

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (45)

Damn that John Hughes for choosing yesterday to die on us! I had in-laws swoop in from out of town at just the moment I learned of Hughes’ death, which necessitated that I rush together that obit. But what really stung is that, it was one of those instances where I kind of wanted to spend the evening with our Pajiba peeps (which basically consists of reading through your comments, smiling and commiserating and basking in a rare moment of Pajiban levity), instead of discussing driving directions with family members who’d never heard of John Hughes.

But Friday morning brings a new source of happiness and joy and reason to go on living in a post John-Hughes’ world: The second trailer for Where the Wild Things Are. There’s a lot more dialogue in this one, and you get a better sense of what to expect from the movie. But that Arcade Fire song is still in it (has there ever been a better trailer song, ever?), and it makes me so goddamn exuberant that not even Jay’s contrariness can dampen my spirits. It’s The Dark Crystal and The Princess Bride and Neverending Story and Maurice Sendak all rolled up into two minutes and 31 seconds of effervescent joy.

So, commenters and readers alike: Pick at spelling mistake; take issue with our overhyping of this film; start a race war; bitch about some ad you don’t like; mock us for being pretentious; or for not being substantive enough. I don’t care. I’ll read all your complaints, and I’ll do it with a smile on my face. Because in a little browser window up in the corner of my screen, I’ll be watching this trailer again. And again. And when that monster says, “I’ll eat you up, I love you so,” I’ll might just get a little misty.

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Ah... a balm to soothe our souls... a special medicine for our aching hearts.
Perfect timing, Dustin.

Posted by: Spender at August 7, 2009 9:16 AM

I can't watch the video, but just reading the "I'll eat you up, I love you so" quote makes me tear up with happiness. Damn you Dustin! Damn you to hell for posting cuteness I can't access!

Posted by: Marra at August 7, 2009 9:17 AM

Dammit, dammit, dammit. Already felt lumpy in the throat all morning and now down my face the tears do roll. I don't want my babies to keep up-growing.

This movie is going to have me hiding my sobbing face.

Posted by: Cindy at August 7, 2009 9:19 AM

Not fair to see something so beautiful before I've armed myself with my morning coffee and cynacism.

Holding back tears and smiling like a child :)

Posted by: tf breaker at August 7, 2009 9:24 AM

Anyone else finding the Art Instititute of Pittsburgh banner that is waving in the breeze to the left here totally mesmerizing? I mean, when it's not slowing my site response time to a crawl?

Posted by: TylerDFC at August 7, 2009 9:41 AM

Well, I feel much better now.

"what's that?"

"Oh, it's a dog. Don't feed it or it'll just follow you home."

Posted by: admin at August 7, 2009 9:50 AM

I've watched this 3 times already, smiling and crying all at once. Smiling at the joy of childhood imagination, and crying for the loss of it.

I can't wait to see this movie. :-)

Posted by: MrsK at August 7, 2009 9:50 AM

thanks mr. rowles, I feel a bit better now

Posted by: rio at August 7, 2009 9:56 AM

Hell. Yes.

I am calling it now.

Philly people!

Julie, Jodie, Lizzy, Ms. Nosek......opening night.

We. Are. ALL. There. Clear your calendars. Mark the date!

Posted by: PissBoy at August 7, 2009 9:58 AM

Anyone else finding the Art Instititute of Pittsburgh banner that is waving in the breeze to the left here totally mesmerizing? I mean, when it's not slowing my site response time to a crawl?

Nope. (Firefox + Adblock) = (No Ads + Quick Load Times) = Happy AvB

Also, Wild Things trailer = happy AvB, even through my tear-filled soul

Yay for Friday!

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at August 7, 2009 10:00 AM

I don't believe I've ever watched a trailer and experienced continuous waves of chills throughout my body. I will be taking Monkey to see this, whether she wants to or not. It's my duty as a Pajiba parent to force the awesome down her throat.

Posted by: Pinky McLadybits (aka Dangle McGee) at August 7, 2009 10:13 AM

My (not yet two year old) daughter was on my lap watching this with me and pointing out all the "kitties" while making lion noises. Early contender to be on the next Pajiba Kids Movies Guide aka Films for Lil' Pajiba?

Posted by: branded at August 7, 2009 10:16 AM

Ahhh, here come the tears.

Posted by: DontStopNow at August 7, 2009 10:24 AM

AvB - not all of us can be so lucky to use Adblock because we need to see the ads for work.. oh the joys of being a webmaster.

Wild Things trailer today... "500 Days of Summer" last night.. I'll be riding high all weekend!(no drugs needed)

Posted by: Arib at August 7, 2009 10:26 AM

AvB: At home, yes. Here at work in Internet Explorer-no-Quick-Time-having-most-good-websites-are-blocked-godammit-land...no.

Posted by: TylerDFC at August 7, 2009 10:29 AM

PissBoy: wouldn't miss it! If there's ANY fucking movie I want to see with my Pajiba friends, it's this one.

Posted by: Julie at August 7, 2009 10:30 AM

Sooooo happy this is coming out on my birthday this year. Footy-pajama party/viewing? Hell yes.

Posted by: ernesto at August 7, 2009 10:31 AM

...am so going to have to see this by myself so as not to damage my rep as hard core with my friends with all the weeping and the sniffling...

Posted by: JenVegas at August 7, 2009 10:47 AM

You guys have got me thinking I'm not much of a trailer person. Every time one is featured on this site and all the Pajibans are like, "Omg I'm teary eyed this trailer is so powerful and beautiful!" I'm like.... "meh."

So, as much as I freaking love this book and as much as I'm excited about the movie, this trailer just doesn't get me all misty or happy. I bet I'll be shedding some tears during the actual movie, though.

Posted by: kayla at August 7, 2009 10:49 AM

Watching this trailer, I'm able to see my whole life in rewind. And then I'm a little girl again, wearing my tutu and a fireman's hat and singing off-key and spending the ENTIRE day outside creating a little universe in my mind. And I finally come in for dinner and my mom yells at me for getting my ballet outfit all dirty, but then she sets down a bowl of something hot and pats me on the head.

I'll eat you up, I love you so.

Posted by: lucy at August 7, 2009 10:51 AM

{sniffle}

Posted by: Lee at August 7, 2009 10:57 AM

Holy shit! A mom who looks age-appropriate and not all glammed up? This is indeed a ground-breaking movie.

Posted by: joeyjeremiah at August 7, 2009 11:00 AM

kayla, I'm the complete opposite! So often I just about wet my pants over a trailer, only to be underwhelmed by the actual film.

But hopefully THIS movie will live up to the hype!

Posted by: lucy at August 7, 2009 11:05 AM

kayla's a heartless commie! kayla's a heartless commie!

C'mon everyone, lets throw rocks at her and point and laugh because she doesn't have a heart.

...commie.

Posted by: PissBoy at August 7, 2009 11:08 AM

Lucy, that was such a lovely & vivid description! You totally described my feelings about this.

Posted by: Lainey at August 7, 2009 11:21 AM

Aw, thanks Lainey! Cheers to all the little wild things!

Posted by: lucy at August 7, 2009 11:59 AM

I'm sitting here at work, in the lighting and sound booth of the theater I work at, about to run tech for a really terrible production of Wizard of Oz done by ten year old girls, directed by women who have no idea what the fuck is going on.

And that trailer... wow. I'm tearing up.

Posted by: That Girl at August 7, 2009 12:21 PM

So looking forward to this movie! I'll be honest, thought; if they used a different song in the trailer I doubt I'd be quite so goosebumpy.

Posted by: LowSlash at August 7, 2009 1:01 PM

Gah! I'm sitting here wiping my eyes and cracking up and going "WHY AM I CRYING" like an idiot. Damn you awesome trailer!

Posted by: figgy at August 7, 2009 1:27 PM

Posted by: Arib at August 7, 2009 10:26 AM
Posted by: TylerDFC at August 7, 2009 10:29 AM

That is, like, a total bummer. Sorry.

(I sneakily installed it to me work Firefox. Tee hee!)

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at August 7, 2009 1:34 PM

My expectations for this movie are so unrealistically high that literally the only way I can see myself not being set up for disappointment is if this movie gives me children of my own, raises them to be wonderful people in front of my eyes, and then gives me grandchildren to boot. And based on the trailers, I think it might do just that.

Posted by: coryo at August 7, 2009 1:40 PM

Goddamn, that is trailer bliss! It's perfect. Not too sappy, just enough creativity and imagination, Catherine Keener, and that song that is just awesome. I'm sitting at home today (out of the normal cubicle life for once) and I started to tear up a little while watching the trailer with my 6 year old on my lap. He looks up at me and says "What's wrong Dad?"

This book and that 2 minutes and 31 seconds takes me back to a simpler time, before mortgages and deadlines, insurance and deductibles, promotions and worry. That's what's wrong, son. Getting old fucking sucks.

I hope that this twist on the classic book is all that I think that it will be. And, in all fucking irony, my Dad just got here (literally just rang the doorbell) to spontaneously go to lunch with me and my boy.

Classic.

Posted by: John Denver's Wingman at August 7, 2009 2:13 PM

I feel like I can't see this is theaters. This is one of those movies I have to buy on DVD and then curl up in my bed with the lights off and watch on my laptop so no one can hear how hard I cry at the dumbest parts, and I can put my nose right up to the screen with hi-fi headphones that block out coughing and collective movie theater gasps.

But who am I kidding? I can't wait that long.

Posted by: Manda at August 7, 2009 2:32 PM

What's most amazing about these trailers is not that they produce tears, but how they go about it.

There is no abusive father, neither the mother nor the son have cancer or any other deadly disease. There is no Oscar-baiting bullshit.

It is just a kid and his mother. And the Wild Things, none of whom have cancer either.

These trailers, in just a handful of minutes create a sense of longing and loss and love that I'm sure will be present in the full movie from frame one.

And I'm also sure that I will float out of the theatre on a wave of my own tears with a beatific smile on my face. Because, having experienced so wonderful, how could I not?

Yeah, I'm excited.

Posted by: opiejuankenopie at August 7, 2009 4:02 PM

You know, I'm so pumped about this film that I don't even care that, all this time, while I thought I was a unique, special, one-of-a-kind flower, it turns out that I--like all of you fellow Pajibans--am just a cookie cutter replica of caucasian dough.

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2009/07/13/127-where-the-wild-things-are/

Anyone who's NOT of vanilla European decent...well, this is our fault. My apologies.

Posted by: TheGreasedScotsman at August 7, 2009 4:51 PM

Smiling and crying at the same time makes my inner PaJunior dance with glee for all the things I thought I had forgotten.
Empires of the Mind and Soul.

Posted by: odnon at August 7, 2009 4:53 PM

Pissboy, Jules, I'll bring the tissues. I might use them all myself, though.

Posted by: lizzieborden at August 7, 2009 6:07 PM

And I watch it again and again and again and I get misty and I get happy...

Truly a wonderful trailer that inspires these feelings and can make people emotional. Can't wait to see this in the theatre.

Posted by: Guinness Leary at August 7, 2009 9:26 PM

I'm so excited for this movie, I keep pimping the trailers out to almost everyone I meet while my girlfriend has to sit and roll her eyes everytime me and someone else geek out over the YouTube on my iPhone. And every new little bit I see just keeps looking better and better. Looks to be a classic in the making.

Posted by: Smatt584 at August 8, 2009 2:46 AM

I'm crying like an eight year old girl after watching that.

And I wish my mommy was here, because when the last trailer came out we watched it together and cried together.

This reminds me not only of when I was little and my mom would read me Where the Wild Things Are on a regular basis, but when I went to college and was completely miserable for the first month and heavily debated dropping out, my mom came up and we went to see a gallery of original Maurice Sendak illustrations (including some from Where the Wild Things Are), and seeing them and being with her made everything bearable.

And now, as I embark on the adventure that is law school, the movie is coming out. YAY!

Posted by: Lucky at August 8, 2009 9:11 AM

I'm pregnant with my first kid, and I took my mom to see the Harry Potter movie for her birthday a week or so ago. After sitting through 20 minutes of some awful, awful promos for what passes as kids' entertainment these days, I turned to my mom and told her maybe I would have to plan to get rid of my television.

Then the Wild Things trailer came on and at the end, as I was sniffling, she leaned over and said, "There will be some stuff worth showing to that baby after all!" Amen to that.

Posted by: velocibadgergirl at August 8, 2009 1:42 PM

Who is that who says "I'll eat you up, I love you so" in this trailer? It sounds so much like Julia Roberts, but IMBD credits two different possible actresses in the role.

Posted by: smatt584 at August 8, 2009 3:48 PM

I SO do not have tears in my eyes right now. I was dusting, see, and the dust is all in my eyes, and, um, yeah. I'm NOT crying. YOU are. Crybaby! Big crybaby!

I'M GOING TO KEEP DUSTING.

Posted by: Daniel Hall at August 9, 2009 12:26 AM

I don't think I would have ever thought of Arcade Fire and Maurice Sendak at the same time... but shit that combo misted me something good.

I'd like some Wild Things for myself. You know, to walk me home from the bar. Or work. Or whatever.

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