Movie #536 "Mary and Max" is definitely one of the quirkiest films I've seen all year. It's like the stage play "Love Letters" gone wild with these two misfits of the world sending a long line of letters to each other over several years until they plan to meet. Claymation makes it stand out, as it is, but the story is gripping, even with the slow pace at the beginning ---- it just keeps relentlessly going on, with one quirky letter after another. The voices are Philip Seymour Hoffman and Toni Collette, and they are winners --------really capture the two independent people here. This film is NOT for everyone, but if you are looking for something way out there, and different, try this ---- quirky, quirky, quirky!
I rate it 4.2 out of 5
Mary and Max
(2009) NR
Mary Dinkle, a chubby 8-year-old Australian girl, and Max Horovitz, an obese, middle-aged New Yorker with Asperger's syndrome, are a pair of unlikely pen pals in this quirky clay animation feature from writer-director Adam Elliot. Corresponding for two decades, the friends delve into a variety of topics, including sex, kleptomania, psychiatry, taxidermy and more. Toni Collette and Philip Seymour Hoffman provide the voices of Mary and Max.
Genre:Comedies, Dramas, Independent Movies, Adult Animation, Dark Comedies, Independent Dramas, Independent Comedies
This movie is:Cerebral, Emotional, Dark, Quirky, Mind-bending
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