Max I'LL EAT YOU UP!!!!!
Played by Max Records 
Where the Wild Things Are (2009) · 34 quotes
Where the Wild Things Are (2009) · 34 quotes
Most-quoted character in Where the Wild Things Are (2009): in 15 of its 34 quotes
Most scenes with: Carol Reaper (7), Judith the Wise (4), Alexander the Great (3)
Let the wild rumpus start!
More lines from Max
2 quotes Max Max YOU'RE NOT ACCEPTABLE!!
Scenes with Max
12 scenes Max Did you make this?
Yeah, yeah.
Max It's very good.
We were gonna make a whole world like this. Now, everyone used to come here, but you know... you know what it feels like when all your teeth are falling out really slowly and you don't realize and then you notice that, well, they're really far apart. And then one day... you don't have any teeth anymore.
Max Yeah.
Well it was like that.
Mom [Max drags a chair to the counter. He sniffs the food in the kitchen. His mom takes the ovenmit off to tell him to be quiet.]
Hey. Ssh!
Max [Max sits on the chair.]
Mom, what is that?
Mom It's pâté.
Max [Picks up frozen corn]
Frozen corn? What's wrong with real corn?
Mom Frozen corn is real. All right, now get off the chair, please. Go tell your sister to clear her stuff off the table.
Max [Max shouts real loud, more in his mom's face.]
CLAIRE, GET YER STUFF OFF THE DINING ROOM TABLE!
Mom Max, don't ever pull that now.
Mom [Max stands on the countertop.]
Um, Max? Get off the counter, please. Get off. I have a friend here. You're embarrasing me!
Max WOMAN, FEED ME!
Mom [Mom covers her eyes, she is not happy.]
Max, get off the counter. Please get off the counter. Get off the damn counter, Max. Now! Now!
Max I'LL EAT YOU UP!
Mom GET DOWN!
Max GRRRRR!
Mom Get off from there!
[Steps off the counter]
Max Hey, Claire. Wanna see something great?
Claire
[on the phone]
Who else was there?
Max It's an igloo! I made it.
Claire
Yeah, my brother.
Max Hey, Claire!
Claire
I can't. We're supposed to go to my dad's that weekend.
Max The snowplows left some snow across the street, and I dug a hole into it.
Claire
[to Max]
Go and play with your friends.
Connie, you can't treated like that.
MAX! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!?! You're out of control!!
Max It's not my... FAUUULT!!
Max Small is good. My powers are able to slip right through the cracks.
But what if the cracks are closed up?
Max Then I have a re-cracker, which goes right through that.
But what if they have some sort of material that re-crackers can't get through?
Max Then I have a double re-cracker, which can get through anything in this whole universe. And that's the end, and there's nothing more powerful after that, ever. Period.
He has a double re-cracker.
He does sound powerful.
So you were their king and you made everything right?
Max Yeah.
Well uh, you know... what about um... loneliness?
What he’s saying is, will you keep out all the sadness?
Max I have a sadness shield that keeps out all the sadness, and it's big enough for all of us.
Wow.
Max And I do this to loneliness.
[Max makes a gesture of a bomb dropping on loneliness. The Wild Things are astounded.]
I knew it! When he showed up, I saw it. Why don’t you guys ever listen to me?
You’re right, Carol, I didn’t see it.
Max [upon seeing Carol remove his crown from a pile of bones]
Are those... other kings?
Oh, those? I don't know anything about that. Those were like that when we got here.
[Max is waking up as Carol carries him]
I didn't wanna wake you up... but I really wanna show you something
Max Okay. [climbs onto Carol's shoulder]
And on the way... I can show you your kingdom. This is all yours. You're the owner of this world. Everything you see is yours. Oh, except that hole over there, that's Ira's. The tree's yours, but the hole is Ira's. But everything else is yours. Except for that rock over there, that's not yours. That little rock next to the big rock. But everything else in the kingdom... except for that stick. That little stick right there, that's not yours. I want you to be king forever, Max.
Max Yeah, definitely.
[Cut to Max and Carol wandering in a desert in the middle of the island.]
This part of your kingdom's not so good.
Max Why?
Well, look: this used to be all rock, and now it's sand, and then, one day, it's going to be dust, and then the whole island will be dust, and then... well I don't even know what comes after dust.
Max Carol, did you know the sun was gonna die?
What? I never heard that... Oh, come on. That can't happen. I mean you're the king, and look at me, I'm big! how can guys like us worry about a tiny little thing like the sun, hmm?
Psst. Psst. [signals for Max to come over] What were you doing with Carol just now?
Max Just talking.
Oh, a secret, huh? Let me ask you something. How does it work around here? Are we all the same or are some of us better than others or - ? You like to play favourites, huh, king?
Max No, I like all you guys equally.
Don't give me that. I can see how it is. The king has favourites. That's really cute.
[Ira hurts Judith again]
Ow! Stop! Do you have a favourite colour? Hey, can I be your favourite colour? [laughs]
[Max imitates her laugh] [Judith does it back] [Max does it again, with more effort]
Ahahaha.
Max Har har har.
Max Har har har!
Ahahahahaha!
Max HAR HAR HAR!
You know what? You can't do that back to me. If we're upset, your job is not to get upset back at us. Our job is to be upset. If I get mad and wanna eat you, then you have to say: "Oh, okay. You can eat me. I love you. Whatever makes you happy, Judith." That's what you're supposed to do!
Max, what’s wrong with the fort? I thought you said it’d be automatic.
Max What?
I thought you said if anybody got in here we didn’t want, the fort would automatically cut their brains out.
KW [The Wild Things are shocked and offended that Carol would say this in front of Bob and Terry.]
Carol...
Max Oh, well... I thought that then, but... I kinda decided that if we know them, they should keep their brains. Even if we don’t know them that well.
KW [to Carol]
I think you should apologise to Bob and Terry.
I don’t apologise to owls. Owls are stupid.
Carol, that’s hateful.
Why did you bring them here? Huh? This place was supposed to be for us. They are not sleeping in our pile. [leaves]
I can't even look at it.
What is it?
The fort. We gotta tear the fort down.
What?
It wasn't supposed to be like this!
No, Carol.
You said we were all going to sleep together in a real pile, and now you want a secret room. and K.W. is gone for good. And now I have to worry if the sun is gonna die.
The sun?
Look at it. It didn't come up! It's dead.
What?
It's dark.
Oh, my God!
Dead?
Max Carol. Stop!
It's dead! It's dead.
Max You're scaring everybody.
It's morning.
Max The sun's not dead. It's just nighttime.
How do you know? I can't trust what you say. Everything keeps changing. Alright, come on, Douglas. We're ripping it down.
Max Carol, we're NOT rippin' the fort down!
It was supposed to be a place where only things you wanted to have happen would happen. Come on, Douglas, do what I tell you.
Max No! We all live here, not just you. It's everybody's. It's Judith and Ira and everybody.
Oh, finally!?
You were supposed to keep us safe. You were supposed to take care of us, and you didn't.
Carol?
Max I'm sorry!
That's not (quite) good enough.
Carol?
You're a terrible King!
CAROL?!
What?!
He's not our King.
What? Don't say that. How could you say that? Don't you dare say that.
There's no such thing as a king.
Don't you say that!
He's just a boy pretending to be a wolf pretending to be a king.
That's not true.
He's just like us.
Oh. Why don't I listen to myself?
No! No! That's not true!
Look, I just went along with it because I knew you wanted it so much.
DON'T SAY THAT!
Carol!
Max Don't Carol, stop it!
Ow!
Oh no!
Max Stop it! What are you doing!?
Carol!
What?!
That was my favourite arm!
Well, I was just holding onto it, you pulled away.
What?
Max Carol, stop it!
You lied?
Max YOU'RE OUT OF CONTROL!
I not out of control! You were supposed to take care of us. You promised. I'LL EAT YOU UP!!!!!
Go! Go!
So, what ever happened with you and the Vikings?
Max Well, in the end I had to leave.
Why?
Max I'm not a Viking or a king, or... or anything.
So, what are you?
Max I'm Max.
The Bull Hey, Max?
Max Yeah?
The Bull When you go home, will you say good things about us?
Max Yeah, I will.
The Bull Thanks, Max.
You're the first king we haven't eaten.
Yeah, that's true.
See ya.
Bye, Max.
Max Bye.
KW Don't go. I'll eat you up; I love you so.
[all howl]