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 Mary and Max 

What grade would you give this film?
A 70%  70%  [ 7 ]
B 20%  20%  [ 2 ]
C 10%  10%  [ 1 ]
D 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
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 Mary and Max 
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Mary and Max is a 2009 stopmotion claymation feature film directed and written by Adam Elliot. The voice cast included Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Eric Bana. The film premiered on the opening night of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. In June 2009, the film won the Annecy Cristal from the Annecy International Animated Film Festival. It won Best Animated Feature Film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards in November 2009. In 2010 the Australian Center for the Moving Image will display an art exhibition about the film.

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Tue Jan 26, 2010 5:42 pm
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10/10 -> A

The narration becomes a bit tiresome by the end, but that fact pales in comparison how wonderful, funny, charming, ironic, sad, insightful this cartoon really is. It's really an inspired and very brilliant work.


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Sets itself up perfectly as best animated film of the past year until the last few minutes. The animation was simply beautiful and on that aspect alone, deserves as much attention as any major CG film of the past year.

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What's wrong with the last few minutes?


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overlong, sudden cliche & cheesy

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^ I'm talking about it last minutes

which didn't totally ruin the film

I liked it, btw

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I thought the ending was perfect...


Mon Feb 01, 2010 9:21 am
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be.redy wrote:
What's wrong with the last few minutes?


I had problems mainly with the ending..

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A perfect one would have been them meeting (both alive) in a completely unpredictable way; or the last shot being Mary stepping out of the taxicab or something like that.


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But why? Max wasn't comfortable with physical human relationships. He found a perfect friend in his pen-pal Mary. How would he cope with meeting her? The chances are their friendship would've been destroyed. So he died perfectly happy.

Mary on the other hand realized that she had a person in her life that in his spare time actually thought about her. Throughout her life she was surrounded with self-absorbed persons who didn't really give much thought about her. So when she looked up and saw that Max greatly appreciated her letters and stuff during his rest (the only way to look at those was if you're laying on the sofa or having your head rested like Mary did), his spare time, that he thought of her in his reflections she was happy too.

I think it was a perfect ending.


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I personally would prefer an "illogical" or an unclosed ending in this case rather than a reasonable, all-problems-solved type of ending. I just feel that that would strike me more especially given how exceptional the film was in its first hour or so.


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In lieu of any kind of aesthetic defense or critique, I'll just say:

holy fuck, this was boring.

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MARY & MAX

Quite possibly the best animated film I've ever seen. Simply wonderful! Funny and very touching, with terrific animation. I am absolutely saddened that this didn't get a US theatrical release (How in the world could it get released Direct-to-DVD here?). It deserved Oscar nominations.

Everyone needs to see it.

AMAZING!

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2009 was an absolutely golden year for stop motion even when I only knew about Fantastic Mr. Fox, Coraline, and A Town Called Panic.

To me, what's impressive about this feature is how they manage to honestly tackle eating disorders, Asberger's syndrome, and other rarely-covered issues. Taking place over two decades in the span of ninety minutes, Mary and Max is a very efficient story/character building machine.

I agree that the ending was perfect for reasons be.redy already covered. An ambiguous Sideways-style ending would have been much less emotionally satisfying, and untrue to the films morbid (but loving) tone.


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A human story with carefully thought out characters. Not easy to find such in an animated film nowadays.

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