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Academy Award-winning Harvie Krumpet director Adam Elliot returns to the world of clay animation with this simple tale of the innocent correspondence between a portly eight year old girl from the suburbs of Melbourne and a morbidly obese, middle-aged Jewish New Yorker suffering from Asperger's Syndrome. On the surface it would seem that Mary (Toni Collette) and Max (Philip Seymour Hoffman) would have little in common, but over the course of twenty years, the unlikely pen pals exchange letters discussing everything from taxidermy, trust, pets, religion, obesity, autism, agoraphobia, alcoholism, and just about any other topic that comes to mind as they sit down and put pen to paper. Barry Humphries and Eric Bana provide additional voices.
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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
This movie is a good old-fashioned animated story about an ostracized Australian girl and an American with undiagnosed Asperger syndrome. The story revolves around the letters they sent each other, a dialogue that began when the girl chose an american name at random to ask where babies come from. As the story evolves Mary grows up and Max descends into his syndrome. Weird as it may sound, this movie is both fun and touching. It's also one I gladly see again.
I'd say you'd have to be at least on your way to be a "grown up" to enjoy it, several scenes in the movie are in the category "difficult to explain to children".
I'd say you'd have to be at least on your way to be a "grown up" to enjoy it, several scenes in the movie are in the category "difficult to explain to children".
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
Stellar performances from Philip Seymour Hoffman as Max and Toni Collette as Mary bring these two claymation characters to life in this incredibly touching film. Mary is a lonely little 8 year old Australian girl who one day sends a letter to a random person from the New York City phonebook just to see what will happen, this happens to be Max. Max is a 44 year old Jewish Atheist who is overweight and suffers from Asperger Syndrome. It all seems like an odd basis for a film but it turns out to be absolute emotional dynamite.
The look and feel of Mary & Max will undoubtedly make you think of Tim Burton, however this has much more of an adult orientated script. There are difficult themes covered in the film such as depression, alcoholism and loneliness but it's handled sensitively and never gratuitously. The structure of the film is flawless and you really get drawn in by how Mary & Max's unlikely friendship blossoms and in places it's positively beautiful.
Writer and Director, Adam Elliot, has done a remarkable job with this film as both the story and filmwork powers through in equal measure. This is a witty, dark and life affirming piece of work that deserves it's place in not just animated film history but film history, period.
The look and feel of Mary & Max will undoubtedly make you think of Tim Burton, however this has much more of an adult orientated script. There are difficult themes covered in the film such as depression, alcoholism and loneliness but it's handled sensitively and never gratuitously. The structure of the film is flawless and you really get drawn in by how Mary & Max's unlikely friendship blossoms and in places it's positively beautiful.
Writer and Director, Adam Elliot, has done a remarkable job with this film as both the story and filmwork powers through in equal measure. This is a witty, dark and life affirming piece of work that deserves it's place in not just animated film history but film history, period.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
I saw this film at the bradford animation festival before it was released on blu-ray and this is what i thought at the time and is still true now.
also if you're worried it wont play on a UK Blu Ray player, it will. it played fine on my PS3.
"That night the first feature was screened- "Mary & Max". It blew my mind, the naive perspective of the child allows the audience to connect with the emotional journey of the films two main characters. Thats the beauty of animation, Mary & Max could handle the themes of mental illness in such a way that it was comic, but not mocking, and powerful, but not preachy. An authentic representation of day to day worries but displayed in the context of an entire lifetime. The narrative cleverly jumps around between the two characters and their pasts through the letters they exchange and the dialogue of each overlaid on the flashbacks. A thing of beauty. Another australian film, from melbourne this time. So many Australian animations, French too."
please watch this, its very very good. dont be fooled by the medium though, this is for adults.
Olly
also if you're worried it wont play on a UK Blu Ray player, it will. it played fine on my PS3.
"That night the first feature was screened- "Mary & Max". It blew my mind, the naive perspective of the child allows the audience to connect with the emotional journey of the films two main characters. Thats the beauty of animation, Mary & Max could handle the themes of mental illness in such a way that it was comic, but not mocking, and powerful, but not preachy. An authentic representation of day to day worries but displayed in the context of an entire lifetime. The narrative cleverly jumps around between the two characters and their pasts through the letters they exchange and the dialogue of each overlaid on the flashbacks. A thing of beauty. Another australian film, from melbourne this time. So many Australian animations, French too."
please watch this, its very very good. dont be fooled by the medium though, this is for adults.
Olly
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