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...movie’s two primary beasts are the temperamental Carol (voiced by James Gandolfini) and the pragmatic, restless KW (voiced by Lauren Ambrose), who, much like Max, flees her home seeking something more. Through the Wild Things’ search for a womb-like shelter free from loneliness, Max comes to understand his own need for the security provided by family...
...James Gandolfini voices Carol, who most closely represents Max. Carol is a builder. He longs to create worlds, but as soon as their perfection falters in any way, he wants to tear them all down. "I like the way you destroy things," he tells Max when they first meet. It's a haunting performance, full of need and anger...
...aide, is variously addressed as "Fetus Boy," "Love Actually" and "Ron Weasley." (The last is an apt epithet; as the plot will show, Toby is more than a little weasely.) Chad, a tall, thin lad on the American team, is "Young Lankenstein" and "the boy from The Shining." James Gandolfini plays a dovish U.S. General here, not a Mafia don; still, it takes giant golden gonads to have the ex-Tony Soprano called "Shrek" to his face...
...script, written by Brian Helgeland, who won an Oscar for his L.A. Confidential, does try to put a stethoscope to the current national malaise when it alludes, toward the end, to the toxic duplicity of insider trading. There's also a superrich mayor (James Gandolfini) who could be Michael Bloomberg with a bigger gut. But most of the film takes place in a fantasy present, where the Dow is at 11,000 - a relic of that halcyon era of 2008, when the movie was shot. And by emphasizing the cop-killer relationship, the picture loses the original's busy fresco...
...tight, tense and emotionally true, and it portrays characters who actually seem part of the world that the rest of us live in. Its four no-name stars (Thomas Sadoski as Greg is the empathetic standout) won't draw the crowds the way Jane Fonda and James Gandolfini do. But they're bringing to life the best new Broadway play of the season...