Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

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.

This is easily one of the best movies I have ever seen. It has all of the elements of a great film, and it is structured magnificently well. There is laugh out loud humor, fascinating and well developed characters, an intriguing story, a unique visual style, and a heartfelt and emotional message. It explores friendship, life, and love in ways both complex and universal, making it a masterpiece that almost everyone will be bound to enjoy. Everything from the art direction to the voice acting to the musical score is pitch perfect, forming a masterpiece of animation."Mary and Max" is heartwarming, sad, and hilarious all at once as it explores many difficult, emotional themes with such elegance and grace that it will please and amuse as much as it will provoke thought and tears. The two main characters are both extremely likable and well developed, and Max's final letter provides the perfect closure to the message. The very last scene is fitting, disturbing, depressing, hopeful, and beautiful all at once, and it caused tears to fall from my eye sockets like hail. As I am writing this very review I can feel butterflies in my stomach, as I am still feeling the power this masterpiece will have on its viewer.Just go and watch it...

The Lumière brothers should be proud of Max and Mary (2009) - Top Rated Movies #179. At the end of the day, they created 'cinema' so that it develops to such a degree that it brings us masterpieces like this animation-comedy-drama. In here, observers get satisfied with three components: the art of clay animation/ Claymation (1), the 'admirable and sudden' friendship between Mary Daisy Dinkle and Max Jerry Horovitz (2), along with all unexpected and comical idiomatic expressions (3), such as "Mary Dinkle's eyes were the colour of muddy puddles. Her birthmark, the colour of poo." or "Butts are bad because they wash out to sea, and fish smoke them and become nicotine-dependent". And, in addition to this, spectators are also able to enjoy the way in which these two characters cultivate their friendship following the antiquated "letter-box-way", without any kind of technology. Surely, the beauty of Adam Elliot's 92 minutes comes from the latter perspective.It is intriguing to take part of the 'reading letters' connection between Australia (Mary) and the United States (Max) now that societies have changed their ways of communicating. Perhaps, if they have used Skype or WhatsApp, it would not have been as accurate as it ended being. It is undoubtedly much better the way they imagine the other with letters, pictures and sweets, than sending videos or sharing mobile calls. To put it briefly, this movie is like a book, and if it was made with the latest trends of XXI century, it was going to be like any Netflix series. However, because of the fact that each of them is located in the back of beyond, cinema-goers are under pressure all movie long. Who does not want to see these two weirdos together? It would have been great, would not it? Notwithstanding, despite their unhappy and boring lives (we all have our own problems in this busy world) they find enough time to write and share their stories. Nowadays, the world is full of 'plastic people' and one never know if it is better to share some story with a relative or acquaintance than with someone in the boonies. As it says at the end of the film, "God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends." (Ethel Watts Mumford), which clearly means that sometimes it is even better to choose a stranger because of all the trouble one could receive and save from a closer friend. To conclude, it should be pointed out that plenty of every-day-life personalities are shown during the movie. We all have met, or even are currently dealing with that elderly man or woman, that beggar, the presumptuous lady, the people at the bus station, the typical neighbour, and on and on. They are all pawns in our daily basis – they just seem to be the responsible ones for some of our actions. Despite that, we truly need to concentrate in the ones that make us 'happy' and fulfilled, like it does Max or Mary, because we are all strange and the only thing we need is to find the ones that are ready to jump on the same train – our soul mate. P.S. My rating is 10 out of 10. P.P.S. "Scent of a Woman" (1992) was my favourite movie. P.P.P.S. Mary and Max it is now replacing its place.

Because this was a 3D animated movie, I thought it would be nice to show this to my little cousins. I made a BIG mistake. There is one line in the movie that should only be played to mature audiences. And that is: when Max was writing (and saying) how he doesn't know how to wear condoms. I gasped when I watched this part of the movie. And my cousins and I looked at each other in shock. I was shocked that a movie like this would include that line. I think there were a few more lines that are for mature audiences only. I should've known this before showing my cousins this movie.