Mary and Max
2009, Animation/Drama, 1h 32m
65 Reviews 25,000+ RatingsWhat to know
Mary and Max is a lovingly crafted, startlingly inventive piece of animation whose technical craft is equaled by its emotional resonance. Read critic reviews
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Mary Daisy Dinkle
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Max Jerry Horovitz
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Damien
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Young Mary
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Vera
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Critic Reviews for Mary and Max
All Critics (65) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (62) | Rotten (3)
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This clay animation feels as if it was written by the early Woody Allen. Actually the genius behind it is Adam Elliot, who wrote, designed and directed this eccentric, wryly funny story.
June 16, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… -
Ultimately, Mary and Max is about correspondence and lack of correspondence, about how our images and fantasies about others fail to match up to what they are like, and about the constitutive gaps and misfirings in any communicational practice.
June 18, 2012 | Full Review… -
Elliot is a talent eccentric enough to make Nick Park look like an office drone, and the serious sadness underpinning his vision only makes the humour work better.
October 22, 2010 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… -
It's a 20-year story that absorbs and beguiles, despite the ugly subject matter.
October 22, 2010 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… -
A very odd, very unlikely animated film from Australia that manages to be sickly-cute, alarmingly grotesque, and right-on at the same time -- often in the very same scene.
October 21, 2010 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… -
Up may be a really good film, but compared to Mary and Max it's an episode of Thundercats.
October 21, 2010 | Rating: 5/5
Audience Reviews for Mary and Max
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Nov 08, 2017Magnificent film voiced, incredibly, by the late, great Phil Seymour Hoffman and Toni Collette. This is a special movie. The Claymation is astounding, with beautifully muted tones. It fits the mood perfectly. Color is used for emphasis as needed. The story is touching, funny, heartbreaking, and genuine. There is real emotion and honesty in this movie, and if you are willing to pay attention, the payoff is huge. I've seen this movie dozens of times, and I'm always amazed.Mark H Super Reviewer
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Sep 21, 2017Gut-wrenching loneliness is at the heart of this work that drives two dissimilar though tortured souls from opposite sides of the world to find each other. Along the way are marriage, death, mental illness and even separation - and how can one separate from someone who you've have never seen? The overall is touching, but sad. Though rendered in animation there's no juvenile cop-out for this mature work about mature themes.Kevin M. W Super Reviewer
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Oct 15, 2014Mary and Max is by far the best clay animation film I've ever seen. Mary and Max were two unlikely pen pals. Mary was an 8 year old girl who has a birthmark with the colour of poo on her forehead, her family weren't any better. Her mother was an alcoholic kleptomaniac who offered little comfort to her; her father was always busy at work with a strange interest in taxidermy of birds. Max was an obese, middle aged, Jewish man with Asperger's syndrome. The only things they had in common were that they both enjoy collecting action figures from a cartoon and that they both had no friends. This unlikely friendship grew over the year, however, Mary became a psychologist and publishing a book about Max which enraged Max, would their friendship last? I enjoy the really bleak atmosphere and characterization of the protagonists, nothing good was going to happen to them and we are made to know it immediately. The grey scale clay figures and set designs were really well crafted. There were some really controversial subjects being discussed with ease, not only Elliot was able to poke fun of the pop culture, he was also able to show some deep insight into the lives of the marginalized groups. The narration was simply superb like his earlier works, as the characters/narrator narrates, the events happen at the same time to help the audience visualize the words in a dark, yet humourous way. I must admit that I was wallowing in tears at the end. It really touched the soft spot within me as I've always been fascinated with Asperger's syndrome. Mary and Max is a must see.Sylvester K Super Reviewer
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May 31, 2014Mary and Max was not only a feast for the eyes but also a food for the mind and the soul. It was beautiful in its sadness.Maymay A Super Reviewer
Mary and Max Quotes
| Max Jerry Horowitz: | You are my friend, my only friend. |
| Max Jerry Horowitz: | Dr Bernard Hazelhof says it is good to have goals but not stupid ones like mine. |
| Narrator: | Que Sera, Sera |
| Max Jerry Horowitz: | Jurors are outstanding members of the community who haven't murdered anybody. |
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