Mary and Max

[danny_galaga]

Another movie review (",)

Mary and Max is a claymation movie set in melbourne and New York City. Mary is an 8 year old girl from melbourne who makes an unlikely pen friend -Max, a 44 year old who lives in New York City and has Aspergers Syndrome.

Phillip Seymore Hoffman plays Max, and Toni Collette is the grown up Mary. Eric Bana plays a part too. The movie is narrated by Barry Humphries. I don't know how well he is known overseas, but he is best known for playing a character called Dame Edna Everidge. It's interesting to think that most animations start off with laying down the voices and sound track. This movie was 5 years in the making, so the actors were probably done 4 or so years ago.

This movie is from the guys who made Harvey Krumpet, a short movie narrated by Geoffrey Rush which won an academy award a few years ago. I really don't know what to say except that Mary and Max is brilliant! It's such a moving tale. I don't mind saying that maybe my eyes were a little moist by the end of it. There were some kids in the cinema with their parents, but it's not really for kids. I think you would at least need to be in high school to get what's happening.

5 out of 5!

my score for recent movies you may have seen:

  5/5 - Michael Clayton, In Bruges, Gran Torino, Mary and Max

4.5/5 - Taken, Iron Man, Reign Over Me

  4/5 - Traitor, Bedtime Stories, Sunshine, pineapple express

3.5/5 - 300, Max Payne, You dont mess with the Zohan, Yes Man

  3/5 - That new Indiana Jones flick, Disturbia, That new TMNT flick,

2.5/5 - The Love Guru. Note: My 2.5 is probably someone elses 1. Just leaving room for worse!

[danny_galaga]

Did i mention this is really funny as well?