Where the Wild Things Are (video game) to try to get rid of Max. But Max saves them from the shadow creatures and rescues them from Nowhere, a strange dimension accessed by portals on the island, causing the Wild Things to crown Max their king for his bravery. They throw a wild rumpus to celebrate. Douglas, a bird-like Wild Thing, soon realizes that the moon is falling to Earth and will destroy the island. After a bid to find a new island fails, Carol, a third Wild Thing, proposes that they escape "to" the moon by building a tower to reach it. Upon its completion, the Wild
Where the Wild Things Are: Motion Picture Soundtrack Jack Lawrence from The Raconteurs all also contributed. When director Spike Jonze approached Karen O to write the soundtrack to "Where the Wild Things Are", he cited The Langley Schools Music Project's "Innocence & Despair" as an example of the desired "simple melodies that were emotionally complex—something that both kids and adults would appreciate". "All Is Love" was released as the soundtrack's lead single on August 25, 2009, and is featured in the credits of the film. The soundtrack received generally favorable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream