Purely Joyful Movie!

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

The best thing about this movie is the sets. They are insane! But the movie itself is not that good and is not really a horror movie, it's more of a comedy. The main problem with it was the characters talking like hipsters all the time. I actually used to hang out with a group of friends who would have loved this... and I can already bet they've seen it five times already. AT LEAST!But not a 2 or 3 like other reviewers are saying. The set design alone is worth a 5. If you are hipster watch it, if not, you may not like it.

Summary (no spoilers)This movie is about an artist Dave who has not achieved any success in life ends up building a fort in his living room only to get trapped by the bizarre pitfalls, booby traps and a creature of his own creation.My Review (no spoilers)The plot of this movie was a complete disaster. It had a promising start but ended up really stupid seriously how this could be made into a movie. There was very little adventure, not so funny comedy and last but not the least no horror. None of the actors did a convincing job. If this was there plan of making a movie then they could have added one more genre to the movie called fantasy. The fort he built looked like a dump in his living room and he enters inside to find it like a mansion inside. It also had a predictable and boring ending to the movie. the movie should have been named as "Dave took a dump".My RecommendationNo Stay Away while you can don't do the same mistake that I did.My Rating0/10

Struggling artist Dave (Nick Thune) creates a cardboard labyrinth in his apartment. Trapped inside the maze (which, like the TARDIS, is larger on the inside than the outside), Dave enlists the help of several friends to find a way out.Dave Made a Maze is a love it or hate it kind of movie. Those who love it will be chin-stroking, tofu eating, bohemian cineastes who actively seek out art-house movies they consider too 'intelligent' or 'quirky' for mainstream audiences; those who hate it will be everyone else.Me? I hated it. The horrible hipster characters, the off-beat premise, the 'isn't it beautiful' aesthetic (No! it looks cheap and ugly): I found virtually every aspect of this film extremely irritating. Setting his movie in an other-worldly environment that obeys no rules, writer/director Bill Watterson has free rein do whatever the hell he likes, but the lack of a decent budget means that what he envisages always looks like a pile of garbage (because it is). Not that mega-bucks would have made much difference—the whole movie is one tiresome exercise in self-conscious wackiness that will seriously grate on the nerves. Unless you sport vintage clothes, thick rimmed glasses, and well-groomed facial hair. In which case, you'll love it (or at least pretend that you do).

The premise of this movie is ridiculous. A man named Dave builds a cardboard maze and once he goes inside, he is lost in the labyrinth. His friends go inside to help rescue him. Chaos ensues. This is the type of absurdist premise that would yield a horribly made film in less competent hands, but in the hands of these people, it ended up being one of my favorite films of the year. It is just so much fun to see the maze and it's inner workings. It was like watching the inner workings of a clock.The acting is top tier and the comedy is spot on and rarely out of place. Actually, everything about this movie is so well done, that I am hard pressed to find a single fault in the movie. It is the type of film that will eventually have a cult following, and that people will come back to when they are tired of the superhero crap Hollywood keeps pumping out.Okay, now that I have been writing this review, I do have ONE niggling critique; the way people die in the film is really "cutesy". Instead of real blood, you see tissue paper flying all over the place. It reduced the deaths to Saturday morning fodder, and I would have liked this element of the film to be a bit more "traditional". Wouldn't it have been wonderful if, when someone died, the real blood would spray everywhere, and the maze would absorb the blood through the cardboard? The movie is constantly billed as a horror film, when it is anything but. It is an absurdist comedy with a heavy fantasy focus. This element alone bothered me enough to have me remove 1 star from my review.