Comments on: Where The Wild Fishes Called Wanda Are

By: SV

SV — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:32:52 +0000

Why on earth would you make Where The Wild Things are not a kid movie? How does that make any sense?

It is good that they missed most of it. Last time my boys father was around he took them to a movie with giant spiders…nice going.

By: SnazzyGina

SnazzyGina — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:03:44 +0000

OMG…I too, HATED A fish Called Wanda. HATE. I still haven’t seen Wild Things. Ever since I heard it “wasn’t a kid’s movie” I haven’t really had the desire. :(

By: EDubya

EDubya — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:54:07 +0000

@Will Oh, I totally get the fort building. That is the stuff of universal childhood. What I hated were the creatures. They were like a cross between a bipedal Snuffaluffagus and Eeyore. You are so right about Carol and the “I wish you had a mother” was one of the few bright spots in that world for me.

@milky “Moulin Rouge” was a hostage movie in our house. I actually enjoyed it for the most part, but I have to say it TOTALLY BUGS me to hear “your song” interpreted any other way than how Elton sings it. ARGH.

@SV Yeah, not a kids movie for sure. Mine went with their dad over the weekend and reported it as “sad because he left without Carol getting to say goodbye”. I think most of it was lost on them. Hopefully, it won’t turn them into cutters. :P

By: SV

SV — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:37:38 +0000

I didn’t hate a fish called Wanda…but I was befuddled by why people loved it so. It seemed eh to me.

I will NOT be taking my sons to see Where the Wild Things Are thank you for the heads up!

By: milky

milky — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:22:49 +0000

Hell, I never understood the hype for the book itself. Caldecott & all. We’re definitely missing this one.

Your ‘A Fish Called Wanda’ is our ‘Moulin Rouge’. We were with stage acting friends who were seeing it a 2nd or 3rd time & loved it/couldn’t stop talking about it. During the first dance ’spectacle’, all I kept thinking was, “When will this retarded nightmare end?…Wait, we’re only 20 min in?!” The next hour was spent soothing myself with inappropriately timed rollicking laughter.

By: Will Hankinson

Will Hankinson — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:12:50 +0000

I had such high hopes for the movie that it was hard not to be a little disappointed. The world of the Wild Things themselves didn’t bother me at all, though: I spent a lot of time building forts and having pretend wars (that inevitably ended when someone got beaned with a rock or something) as a kid, so I “got” the world of the Wild Things.

I think the realization that the Wild Things needed a mother was a fantastic way to end his stay in fantasy land, but I also think it could’ve come 20 or thirty minutes sooner. Carol’s unravelling really really bugged me–he was such a likable character to start with, and by the time Max left I was totally sick of him.

(I love A Fish Called Wanda… )