Where the Wild Things Are and the Concept of the 'Kids' Movie'

Peter Gutiérrez argues that Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are is both the purest kids' movie ever and the starkest big-screen betrayal of children's literature we're likely to see for quite some time, in the way that it questions, consciously or not, audience presuppositions about content for pre- and post-adolescents.