It's a classic. Firt class, classic.

Where The Wild Things Are amazed me to no end, everything about the film was just right.

The film is based on the 10 sentence children's book by Maurice Sendak, about a boy named Max who runs off and imagines a world full of monsters known as the Wild Things.

Normally, films based on short children's books just flat out suck like The Grinch or The Cat in the Hat but Spike Jonze really knew what he was doing when he directed the film. He didn't make the movie like other Hollywood studios like Fox, Disney and Dreamworks would tell him would want him to. He made the film incredibly different from the stuff they do.

Max Records just felt like a geniune child as Max. He acted like a real kid, he didn't sound annoying. He was just spot on as Max.

The Wild Things are probably one of the most interesting group of characters I've ever seen in fiction. Each of their personaties stood out from each other, ultimately in my opinion, Carol and KW are the best characters in the film. What's interesting is that they both acted like siblings which is vital considering Max's involvement.

The voice acting for each of them is top notch, they sounded natural. They didn't sound like big name celebrities out for a quick buck, they put an effort into it. Hell, James Gandolfini did an extrodinary well done as Carol. He sounded calm when the character is calm and he sounded pissed off when he's angry.

The suits and CGI faces really blended amazingly well. They actually looked and even felt real, even more so than the Autobots and Decepticons in the Transformers movie. And the ending, just wow, it actually amost made me cry. I felt like I was going to shed tears at any moment.

Not only that, for some reason; I consider it to be a companion piece to Coraline. Mainly because their fantasy worlds suddenly felt uncomfortable to the young protagonists later on.

Overall, it's an excellent film and you really don't want to miss out on it. It's worth your money.

I give it 5 out 5 dirt clods.