Must See Movie of the Day- Where The Wild Things Are

Everyone's favorite children's book has finally come to the big screen. Maurice Sendack's timeless classic, "Where The Wild Things Are", has been adapted to a live-action film by Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation). WTWTA stars newcomer Max Records as the film's main character Max, Catherine Keener (Death to Smoochy, 40 Year Old Virgin, Into the Wild) as his mother, and Mark Ruffalo (In The Cut, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Rumor Has It, Zodiac) as Keener's boyfriend. Along with Keener and Ruffalo, stars Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) and James Gandolfini (The Sopranos) provide voice overs of the "wild things".
We all know the story, boy runs away from home, boy finds island full of wild things, boy throws wild rumpus (rager), boy gets tired and misses mom, and then boy finally returns home. Growing up this was my favorite book and to this day I find myself looking it over from time to time. I anticipated its release for months and I made sure I saw it.
What really did it for me was the trailer. Not only were the scenes that were shown heartwarming, but the song was as well. After some research I found out it was "Wake Up" by The Arcade Fire. It was no surprise to me that Spike Jonze would put together a great soundtrack after having directed music videos such as The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Sky's The Limit", "Praise You" and "The Rockafeller Skank" by Fatboy Slim, "Island In The Sun" by Weezer and mostly notably "Flashing Lights" by Kanye West.
The film tried to shy away from being a kids movie and tried to target a more mature adult audience, which in the words of Borat Sagdiyeva was a "great success". The darker elements of the movie made it more appealing to an older audience, but still kept some childish aspects which is probably the reason for its PG rating.
It would be nice to see Spike Jonze directing in more movies however. I mean after you come out with "Being John Malkovich" it is hard to follow up, but when you look at this movie, as well as the music videos he's directed, its a surprise he hasn't been more involved.

Here is the song from the trailer: Wake Up- The Arcade Fire