Quite possibly the best news in a long time — it seems like the trailer for the highly-anticipated Spike Jonze adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are will finally be seen in less than two weeks! A source wrote in to CHUD and explained that they had seen the full three-minute long trailer before a screening of DreamWorks new animated movie, Monsters vs. Aliens.
The news gets even better. The source even shared how the trailer looked, and let’s just say… it sounds really, really, really good.
Here is the main bit of praise. Be sure to click over to CHUD to read it all.
Try as I might, I can’t verbalize how I felt about the trailer beyond the most grandiose superlatives: ‘beautiful’ and ‘gorgeous’ and ‘breathtaking’, making me sound like Pete Hammond. The environments in particular (there’s a sequence of cutting between 4 shots of Max running through different environments that is absolutely magical) are a work of incredible vision, especially in light of the production methods Spike opted for. It does feel like a ‘kids movie’ (not pejorative): the trailer repeatedly made me about eight years old, over and over again. Unless I’m an idiot, and you’ll see yourself in a week or two, the finalized monsters are some kind of incredible technical achievement.
Ugh, I get goosebumps just thinking about watching it. My biggest fear at the moment, is that we’ll find out that they were just “testing” the trailer in front of these screenings, and that it won’t actually be seen in front of Monsters vs. Aliens once released.
Even in that case, at least we know that a trailer is complete, and if we’re lucky, we will indeed be basking in its glory very soon.
