‘Where the Wild Things Are’ iPhone App

Published by Jeff Leins on: October 9th, 2009

Warner Bros is offering a free application for the iPhone to promote the October 16 release of Where the Wild Things Are.  You can go to the official website for more about it, or grab it from the App Store on your Apple device.  Though due to its size (10+ MB), it asked me to connect to the WiFi to download.

The features include scrolling through character posters of the wild things, beautiful stills from the Spike Jonze film, and viewing the two promotional trailers.  You can also listen to select songs from the soundtrack by Karen O. from the Yeah, Yeah Yeahs, which will take you right to iTunes to purchase them.  (Though you can listen to the whole track list in their entirety here).

In the app you can also interact with Carol, a wild thing voiced by James Gandolfini in the movie.  You can provoke him with pokes to the belly, throw mud at him, or tip the device to throw him off balance.  Beware, he’ll run up and smash your screen.  Try turning out the lights to make him go to sleep, pushing the button to make him howl at the moon, or playing a song from your playlists to make him dance.  Finally you can offer him your contacts or photos for Carol to smash or chomp away on.

It’s pretty fun for a few minutes and might be worth it just to play around with while waiting in the ticket line.  Overall, it’s a little glitchy and hokey, but it’s also the right price: free.

WB has previously created apps for The Dark Knight, Terminator Salvation, Orphan, Watchmen, and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.