After months of studio types openly fretting about how Spike Jonze’s adaptation of the children’s classic Where The Wild Things Are would be too frightening or narratively spare for family audiences—and at a steep $100 million pricetag, too—the film enjoyed a surprisingly robust opening weekend with $32.5 million. It remains to be seen whether those numbers hold or fall off steeply once word of mouth starts to circulate, but anyone predicting an unmitigated disaster should get out of the prognostication business. Also performing better than expectations: Law Abiding Citizen, the dismal Saw-like vigilante thriller starring Gerard Butler as a man who single-handedly attempts to take the justice system down after it fails his family. It took in $21.3 million, good enough for second place. The week’s other wide release, an even more dismal remake of the 1987 pulp favorite The Stepfather, took fifth with a modest $12.3 million, but that’s plenty strong enough to make back its $20 million budget with interest.