“Let the wild rumpus start!” yells Max, a troubled 8-year-old, struggling to make life seem normal in this soon-to-be-classic movie by Spike Jonze.

“Where the Wild Things Are” is a great film that breaks the common mold of animation, and gives you the story about childhood, rather than a children’s movie.

Adapted from the classic children’s book of the same name, “Wild Things” has a little bit of everything in it.

From the opening scenes, the viewer is taken through an emotionl rollercoaster through the eyes of Max, and we feel his pain and his need to be free in his own world.

Once he embarks on his journey to where the wild things are, we get a whole new set of adventures.

There seems to be no end to how creative the movie can get, and with all the action sequences and witty dialogue, it’s hard not to like this movie.

The movie gives a little extra than the book; the wild things have the ability to talk and have individual characters that make their plots and stories much more fascinating than thought possible.

Toward the end, the movie gets emotional and can even cause tears to fall from emotional people’s eyes.

There is a a sense of innocence and the need to be free coming from this movie, and when you see the way it’s filmed, you will be caught up in a wild rumpus of your own imagination.