Incredible film. Especially for its genre.

I would've killed to see this movie when I was like 8, 9, or 10 years old.

I haven't read the book, but I think I'll be ordering it off of Amazon some time this week.

What I loved most about the film is that it never wandered into cheap, melodramatic, sentimental territory. While the narrative stuck to a straightforward path, and the fantastical worlds the boy found himself in were a manifestation of the grief and sadness he was feeling, it never felt cheap or manufactured. It felt so natural.

This film is what Where The Wild Things wished it could've been.

While not quite as mature as something like 'Pan's Labyrinth', this is easily the best film since that one in terms of balancing high-end fantasy with the realness and consequences of the real world.

Can't wait to get this on blu-ray once it hits home video.

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