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A Balasaur Score of 69 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.7/10, Rotten Tomatoes 73%, Metacritic 71/100. Every source lands within 6 points of the others, across 2,100 audience votes. Scores higher than 78% of the 859 2000s adventure movies in this catalog. Streaming on Paramount+ and Tubi.
Synopsis
Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways.
Ratings
IMDb6.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes73%
Metacritic71/100
2,071 audience votes
Key crew
- Dave EggersScreenplay
- Spike JonzeScreenplay
- Spike JonzeDirector
- Karen OOriginal Music Composer
- Carter BurwellOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Max RecordsMax
- Catherine KeenerMom
- James GandolfiniCarol (voice)
- Lauren AmbroseKW (voice)
- Catherine O'HaraJudith (voice)
- Forest WhitakerIra (voice)
- Chris CooperDouglas (voice)
- Paul DanoAlexander (voice)
- Spike JonzeBob (voice) / Terry (voice)
- Pepita EmmerichsClaire
- Mark RuffaloThe Boyfriend
- Max PfeiferClaire's Friend
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Themes
creaturebased on children's bookchildren's booklyingoverflowing with imaginationchildren's perspectivesmaurice sendak
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