Spike Jonze returns in his first feature film in over eight years with a thin line between reality and fantasy by taking over the children’s by Maurice Sendak’s that was popular in 1963 and it is called Where the Wild Things Are. Jonze beig a wild thing himself would definitely have gone for this book and it comes as no surprise as when in Sendak’s book, the angry little is being sent to his room without his supper for threatening to eat up his mother and when he imagines himself in being a land with towering monstrosities he is able to tame with one glance but the challenge is to create a movie with ten sentences and very few illustrations and they have done a wonderful job of it and have been able to the very light book and convert it into a plot around the same subject of childhood. Eggers and Jonze are able to retain the scenarios but explain in detail why the once young Max is feeling so alone in the world with an older sister who is not so very much interested in him along with his over worked mother who has either been divorced or a window which is not very clear but what is that she has given all her attention to her new boyfriend instead of her son. We are given an insight into his life and are able to comprehend why he finally blows up and takes up. The book has been given logic with Max being able to take a boat to the land instead of sitting in a jungle in his room.

Lance Acord has also shot the two previous features of Jonze, 1999’s Being John Malcovich and the 2001’s Adaptation. The world of wild things gives us a beautiful insight of the world of wild things, its dense jungles and the wide open deserts that are meant to evoke our feelings and the one big strength this move has that it makes one feel the reality in the fantasy.

An incredible amount of puppetry and digital effects have been used to make things become life like and unlike the book itself, the characters in the movie all have their own independent personalities. Everyone there is looking for some kind of a unity which they seem to think that they will find in Max so in actual, wild things portray the feelings, confusion and the insecurity that accompanies young and inexperienced people who are not always in control of their own feelings with the big size and fearsome personalities totally opposite from their emotional maturity. Some critics have not passed the movie for adults but one thing is overlooked that it is actually the feelings of the child Max that is amplified and is able to be seen on in the land while we become more aware of the darker sides of this time.