I was calling people before I left the parking lot and telling them not to go see this movie. I have a Masters in Early Childhood and have read this book millions of times to my own children and my students. How the movie writers came up with such a drepressing storyline from those 9 sentences is beyond me. Yes, Max had an anger issue. The book brings that out--but all the other confusion and depression and destruction protrayed in the movie are a downer to adults and boring and frightening to children. We paid for the IMAX experience and were so excited about seeing this. We were greatly disappointed.