It’s becoming a pretty rare occurrence for me to find a movie that is worth forking out the dough to go to a movie theater to see when I can just wait a few months and catch it on cable or the video store. Even more rare is to find a movie that the wife and I can agree on and want to fork out the dough to see in the movie theater when we can… but Where The wild Things Are just might be the movie that meets both requirements. It’s a movie without any gore (that’s the wife’s requirement), a film adaptation to a book that we both grew up with that brings back nostalgic memories.

Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s composed all the music and is calling her creation Karen O and The Kids which is comprised of the who’s who list of indie rockers like fellow Yeah Yeah Yeah members Brian Chase and Nick Zinner as well as Bradford Cox (DeerHunter), Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age, The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs), Aaron Hemphill (Liars), Greg Kurstin (The Bird and the Bee), Jack Lawrence (The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs, The Greenhornes), Oscar Michel (Gris Gris), Imaad Wasif (New Folk Implosion, Alaska) with accompaniment from an untrained childrens choir.

The movie still has a couple of weeks before it’s release (October 16th) but the soundtrack is streaming in full over at imeem. Soundtracks are pretty tough to make any real comment on as they are designed to coincide with particular moments in the movie instead of each track making a statement on their own. That being said I would not plug in this CD to just sit back and relax to. It definitely pushes my boundaries of enjoyment at times but I’m sure that it will fit in with the idea of the movie, that being one of imagination and free thinking.