Dreadful. I had high expectations. Saw "Being John Malkovich" and "Adaptation." Thought they were brilliant. Unfortunately, writers Mike Goldenberg and Dave Eggers are not Charlie Kauffman. "Where the Wild Things Are" played like a student film. As brilliant as Max Records was, Spike Jonze needed a much younger actor to make the lead character credible. A boy that age would simply not bite his mom. It was all downhill from there.