What a magical movie this is. Hardly a surprise, considering the pedigree of the people involved (the director of Being John Malkovich and Adaptation.), but it's a rare things when a literary masterpiece the likes of this is adapted in such a way that nothing is dumbed down or cut through corners. Going above and beyond its source material, Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are is as fantastically entertaining as it is moody and emotionally draining, the results of the director's unrelenting vision of a boy dealing with his inner demons in the company of some bigger ones.