After many troubled attempts, Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book, Where the Wild Things Are, has finally made the leap to the big screen. The story is about Max (Max Records), a lonely kid with an overactive imagination, who runs away after a fight with his single mom. He travels by boat across the sea to an island, where he encounters the Wild Things. Max convinces them he is a king, so they won’t eat him, and he eventually bonds with …