Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

So much average

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York. Mary and Max is a pathetic rip-off of animation that even dared to steal the style of animation that Tim Burton most of the time uses. The film is also definitely not for children since they will eventually bored to death from the sadness that it's packed with but also with the very bland and boring character that it's full on with. Mary and Max is just horrible... (0/10)

I'm sure why this film was never popular or well-recognized. It's just so good. I accidentally found it and felt like discovering treasure. It's so original. Totally in love with it and wonder why haven't they make more like it.

A lonely 8 year old girl from Australia, having a life of misery, chooses to send a letter to a 44 year old obese American with anxiety problems, eager to be able to socialize with someone. This way, a very long pen friendship is born that will dramatically change the lives of the two.It's an extensive drama, a story that you can hardly imagine but it's nevertheless inspired from reality. It describes how a simple letter, or succession of them can affect so much a person's life. It's a great movie accompanied by lovely music and a great narrator who's voice will make you feel special. It's sad from the beginning, but the end is the one who carries the most drama. It has some funny moments in contrast with the rest of the plot but unfortunately some boring sequences as well. It will make you think twice about the people you care, about those to whom you've been rude and even about yourself! A superb movie!

Stop-Motion-Director Adam Elliot delivers a masterful feature-length film with striking ideas from an everyday context to impair them with the isolation of two human beings, apart from each other across the globe, imprisoned with their own self-determined way of living and the writing to each other gives them the only emotional glimpse of a fulfilled life.At times extremely funny and then again heartbreaking sad, but never dull, keeping a consequent production design, Director (and also responsible for writing the screenplay) Adam Elliot turned his inside out by developing a realm of animations after his own designs in which he ruled as king backed by his producers. The genuine results did not disappoint. Unfortunately, I was not able to watch "Mary and Max" in a movie house back in 2009.Nevertheless my first watch as of today, has delivered timeless memorable moments in movie history as the character of Max J. Horovitz, originally spoken by Philipp Seymour Hoffmann, wins the New York lottery, only to purchase his favorite dish (Hot Dog bread with a chocolate bar) and further filling his apartment to justified his couch-television-existence, forgetting to visit his only Mary D. Dinkle, verbally performed by actress Toni Collette, in Australia. Instead Max donates the rest of winnings to his neighbor, who makes beauty & pleasure usage out of the capital.These scene are so well-inter-weaved in a timeless 90-Minute-movie that even when the "Mary and Max" concludes with Mary's visit in New York years later on the day of Max's final breath to death, the aroused emotions became empathically humanized and will stick with me forever. Eight years after the film's initial release at Sundance Film Festival, "Mary & Max" has nothing lost of its striking emotional power, which makes it deserve its secured IMDb Top 250 spot.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)