Review #45 | Mary and Max

Mary and Max was not great experience for my case but it does have its own colors. This will be a short review of the movie. (I'm so lazy!)

Mary and Max, 2009

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.

It is a very mature artistic film but has no place for kids. It had lots of comedy and humor and at one point it goes too far. Mary and Max is a well-crafted film that has a wonderful screenplay and does great to picture the films color.

I wouldn't recommend it to kids for they won’t find this fun.

Inside Outside Rating: 74%