Wild Things

The preview I just saw for the dvd that is coming out tomorrow is all sweetness and light: playing around, hugs, fun music: Be warned- that is NOT an accurate view of the movie! That's why I'm playing along with Messy Mommy's Movie Monday. You need to be warned!

I thought this would be a timely review to do, since this movie is coming out on dvd tomorrow and many of you might be wondering if it is appropriate for your children to watch. My 3- and 5-year-olds and I saw Where the Wild Things Are in the theater just two weeks ago. The theaters around here give free movie passes to some of the schools in the area on days when the kids have off for school holidays, to a children's movie that is a few months old.

Mil volunteered to watch Cub so that I could take the other two with me to go see it.

Monkey had seen the previews and had asked to go see it and of course, both boys were familiar with the book.

I was a little skeptical. The previews looked little scary(though NOT the one that I just saw!!!) and the movie is rated PG.

Now, I do let my boys watch PG movies, but I've found that for the movie theater, we're usually safe with a G-rated, as far as holding their attention, but PG-rated are better off as a dvd at home.

But, since the tickets were free and Grandma even gave the boys some popcorn and soda money, I thought we'd give it a shot, figuring we could always leave and it really wouldn't be any big loss.

I thought it was actually a great adaptation of the book to the movie.

But, I do think that it was a little too mature for my boys.

There are some scary scenes. In the book, the monsters are almost cute.

They are not cute in the movie.

When the monsters in the movie want to eat Max, it's frightening.

There's also a lot of dark and fast-moving scenes, which are a bit overwhelming. It probably won't seem quite as bad at home, though,unless your tv screen is THAT big.

Bear had to cover his ears several times because there were quite a few loud scenes.

There was a scene where they have a huge mud fight and both of my boys were laughing almost uncontrollably at that, though.

I do think that you could watch this movie with your child and take a lesson from it on how you should treat others and how to behave when you don't get your way, but I think that Monkey, at 5, is probably the youngest that I would have watch this movie.

And keep in mind that he's 5-going-on-22.

So, if you are thinking about this movie for toddlers or even preschoolers, you might want to reconsider.

Older than that, I'll give it my thumbs up.

Did you see it? What did you think?

Will you be renting it on dvd?

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Kiran, over at Masala Chica, whom I cannot wait to meet on Saturday at Bloggy Bootcamp, is travelling like crazy this week and so I had a guest post over at her place yesterday.

Please don't forget to head over there and show me some love so she doesn't regret letting me guest post. It was a Sunday and you know Sundays are sort of dead in the blog world.  But, what a bad impression that would be - to have almost no comments on it- when we're meeting irl soon.

She might act like she doesn't know me.
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