yah, won tickets to an early premiere

it was horrible! it had so much potential, but everything was just wrong.
review may contain spoilers but who cares

i'll begin with the positives:
+ the animatronics were almost top of the line, and were fun to watch.
+ the musical score was appropriate, sweet and innocent.
that's it,
now the negatives:
- the story was too short, and poorly conceived. there was little to no moral.
- Max was a brat, none of the characters were really likable. Max began the movie a little monster, and ended learning that being a little monster is ok.
- Carrol sounded and acted like a gangster, he was naive at first and turned violent, he even disemboweled another monster. he reminded me of an abusive parent.
- Max's life was in constant peril, this movie made many potentially deadly things seem like a game.
- there was no real resolution for the wild things in the end, max returned home to his mother who was nothing more than worried about him.
- the Beasts, or whatever they were called, actually had intent to consume Max, and there was skeletal evidence of his predecessors.
- there were many loose ends left by the end of the movie, and many questions left unanswered.
- all the kids sitting around me were either bored by it or confused, if kids don't like a kids movie whats that tell you?

all in all, what i thought would be one of the best movies this year turned out to be one of the worst. watch it for your self if you like, i found it hard to believe this could be screwed up that badly myself.