Where the Wild Things Aren't

It sucks that the first thing I heard about Spike Jonze's adapation of the classic children's book "Where the Wild Things Are", was that it had been abandoned by the Warner Studios after early screenings of the film made children run from the theatre screaming and in tears. I guess Warner Bros. thinks that this is a bad thing, where as I, personally feel, that that is the best indication that this movie would have probably been one of the most creative and refreshing kids movies to come out since the Labyrinth. There was a time, before the PC revolution, that childrens movies were often dark and scary while at the same time hopeful and visually stimulating and loaded with innovative creativity. Now it seems that any kids movie that comes out has to feature some goofball Hollywood A-Lister doing funny voices in bright candy colored worlds of off kilter pop reference covered in hard shells of scatological humor like rotten candy covered apples.




It's a shame because Spike Jonze is a visual genius, from his music videos to his two motion pictures, Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, he's more than proven his ability to take other peoples source materials and turn them into exciting cinema. And judging by the two production shots I found, they definetly got the tone of the monsters down as best I can tell. I would have really loved to see what they did with this project, but once again, the major studios are too fucking pussy to take a chance on anything that doesn't star Mike Meyers or Eddie Murphy acting like retracted testicles who honed their senses of humor and acting skills in a McDonalds ball pit. Oh well.