I hated this movie. 1st off you cant expect to take a short children's story and make it into a full feature film and still have the same charm and magical effect as the book. They took A LOT of artistic liberties and ended up making a children's book in to a hipster art school college type of movie. I felt the movie was a way too dark for it to be considered a children's movie. The "wild things" were constantly threatening (in a sinister way) to eat the little boy "Max" and then a character's arms are torn off. You would think because they had all this extra time to fill stuff in the movie they would have done a better job writing a story that went some where. No problems where resolved! The kid was a cry baby brat in the beginning and a brat in the end as well. I probably hated the sound track most of all. That "All is Love" song makes my ears bleed its so awful. To summarize the worst movie EVER it ruined the book for me.