After much to-do about Spike Jonze’s adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are, it looks like we might finally get a look at it. Well, some of it. Actually, more of it than I initially thought, since it looks like the film will completely bypass a teaser and head right to full on trailer territory…

And the website that caught the tipster who has actually seen the trailer? CHUD:

-Where The Wild Things Are trailer is debuting in 2 weeks in front of Monsters vs. Aliens

-Not a teaser, full 3-min trailer, scored to ‘Wake Up’ by Arcade Fire (it fits beautifully, and is either the 3rd or 4th time the band has agreed to license their music, won’t be in the actual film obviously)

-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.

-Much of the VFX work went to detailed facial animations on the monster’s eyes and faces to give them a functional expressive palette. That remains the only post work left before release. They look nothing short of real and feel very alive and very, very huggable.

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SQUEEEEEE!

I’m geeking out knowing that I only have have 2 more weeks to wait before I get a peek at where this movie is going. And with Arcade Fire, nonetheless.

Not to mention that I’m totally seeing Monsters & Aliens in 3-D, since I’m really pushing to see 3-D releases this year. I’m not expecting it to be brilliant, so now the motivating force that pushes me into the theater is WILD THINGS.

w00t, man, w00t.