My latest MSN DVD column is up, focusing a much-deserved spotlight on Spike Jonze’s tremendous adaptation of “Where the Wild Things Are”.
You may remember that I loved it quite without reservation last fall. And yes, I love it still.
Have you caught up to it yet? Isn’t it time you did?
You liked the Higglety Pigglety Pop! short? I found it uncomfortably weird and creepy, and kind of terrible. Streep sounds like her dialogue was recorded on the first and only read-through. And that baby will likely give me nightmares for decades.
Where the Wild Things Are was the in-flight movie on our trip home from Jamaica. Even on the small small SMALL screen I could see that it looked great visually and that Max Records seemed very emotionally expressive (and looked great in his wolf suit). I didn’t rent the earphones…I’m looking forward to seeing this instead on the merely small screen.