where the wild things are and other stories maurice sendak

Still, for what animation there is, there's hardly any difference between the book and cartoon. In fact, the most 'animation' (in the semi-traditional sense) takes place during 'the wild rumpus'. Basically, it's like they took a camera and panned to different sections of the book every now and then. Well, Wild Things isn't necessarily 'animated'. Why did you put parentheses around the word animated earlier? It's adapted and directed by Gene Deitch and Sendak's artwork is recreated by Rudolf Holan. This 'animated' version is runs almost close to six minutes long and is narrated by Peter Schickele, who also composes and conducts the music for the featurette. In spite of trying to scare Max with their terrible roars and claws and gnashing their terrible teeth and rolling their terrible eyes, he tames the wild things with a magic trick and soon becomes their king. Soon after, his room turns into a forest and a private boat picks Max up and brings him to the place where the wild things are. His mother punishes him by sending him to his room without supper.

Written in 1963, Where the Wild Things Are tells the story of Max, a precocious little boy wearing a wolf costume who spends one evening causing trouble. Notice the newer release is darker, while the original is lighter and slightly washed out. New release on the right, original release on the left. Well, has there been any changes or upgrades? Besides the cover, the DVD art and the stickers, it looks like there are some slight differences in picture quality (more on that later). Jonze's film has been delayed (twice), so here we are. Jonze is currently at work on a theatrical live-action version of Maurice Sendak's renowned children's book, so i'm sure Scholastic and New Video were looking to capitalize on the film by re-releasing their 2001 DVD with a spiffy new cover (which looks more like the book's cover), a gold sticker on the wrapper (proudly informing consumers that the book was awarded the Caldecott Medal) and stickers for the kiddies on the inside. Were it not for director Spike Jonze, we would not be talking about this re-release of Where the Wild Things Are on DVD.

Where the wild things are and other stories maurice sendak