We just shot up the poster today, and mentioned the trailer coming out this weekend, but lo ad behold, The Ellen Degeneres Show beat everyone to the punch, and they exclusively premiered the trailer for Where the Wild Things Are. But now we have the trailer for you online in all its glory.

The trailer really is mesmerizing, and contains only one line of dialogue, but this movie looks like it's going to be everything that it should be. Spike Jonze has always had a unique, though somewhat dreary filmmaker's eye, and this film is no exception. It'll be interesting to see how much the subject matter of the film appeals to kids and if it can live up to the hype that the status of book forces upon on it.

If you're unfamiliar with the story, it follows Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world--a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler. The film features the voices of Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland), Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine), James Gandolfini (heard in the trailer), Catherine O'Hara (Home Alone, Best in Show) and Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under, Can't Hardly Wait). Making the trailer even more fantastic, is the use of The Arcade Fire's lyrically relevant song "Wake Up." I'm now ridiculously excited for this movie.

The last time I was excited for a movie with the words "wild things" it was because I had just hit puberty and Denise Richards and Neve Campbell kissing was oh, so intriguing to me. This will be a completely different experience I think, unless the movie goes spiraling out of control into a threesome with Matt Dillon and the aforementioned career-dead actresses.

Check out the trailer below. What do you think?