Good start, but then it gets ruined

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

At the end of the day when the mobile devices and other toys go back into their boxes (remember, AT THE END OF THE GAME THE PAWN AND THE KING GO BACK TOGETHER) what sets brilliant apart from prosaic is simply whether or not it haunts you and makes you yearn to see it again. And that is the case here. When I originally saw this on MTV I was simply fascinated. When it was over, I sorta felt bad. Years later, I was swapping the top DVDs from my collection to get a copy, and I watched it start to finish. It is more than animation, it is poetry. The voice-over burns into your frontal lobes. The characters are both more heroic and more sinister than anything Ian Fleming ever thought of. The Outback is as much a metaphor as the Maxtrix. This is bloody great.

in a word, disembowelment. i watched this a long time ago. i just watched the royal tannenbaums and it brought up bad memories. let me share them with you.but first, on the upside, the art style is great but the animation is limited for the most part.but thats about as up as it gets. its okay for the first 20 minutes, but the characters end up spending the rest of the "series" spewing monologues about how depressed they are and how messed up the world is. every now and then the maxx trips out and plays tarzan in his day dream world, but its only a rare escape. he quickly returns to reality and most likely clips someones toenails while they, again, whine about how bad everything is. after they introduced the fourth character, some whiny and depressed goth kid(go figure) or maybe it was when the chick engaged in pseudo intellectual combat with the villain, i ejected the cassette from the VHS player and promptly broke it across my knee. justice had been served and i slept well.

"Most of us inhabit at least two worlds: The real world, where we're at the mercy of circumstance... and the world within, the unconscious, a safe place, where we can escape..." With those words, the "villain" of the series, Mr. Gone introduces inside the viewers into the world of "The Maxx", a fascinating world where the line between the fantasy and the reality isn't very clear and most things aren't what they seem at first glance."The Maxx" is a very faithful adaptation of the Sam Kieth comic in which it was inspired: Though abbreviated, this animation equals the original comic book in quality, helped, no doubt by the heavy involvement of the original creator. Additionally, some story lines from the original comic were also expanded for the better (Like for example Sarah's introduction) Even when it was very-short lived (Like many other good animated shows) "The Maxx" is still one of the most interesting series ever done in the history of television, being another perfect example of the potential that animation has a medium for more mature, complex and original stories.Every single episode of "The Maxx" is a marvelous experience, and it certainly left me wishing to see more of the plot and characters. Is a superhero-animation like no others, and in those times where everything seems to be done and told, shows like this are the perfect example of how much could be with apparently "normal" concepts from fiction, such as masked heroes and alternate realities. After all those years, the only series to be remotely similar in quality and mystery to "The Maxx" was the excellent and underrated motion-comic "Broken Saints", which even when it doesn't seem to have many things in common with "The Maxx" at first sight, manages to be equally deep and fascinating in what concerns to the exploration of the inner world of the main characters, alternating it with the harsh reality.

The Maxx is a deep psychological introspective lightly camouflaged as a weird-out superhero story. Julie Winters is a "freelance social worker" in an unnamed filthy city, ridden with crime, and she and everyone she knows has a lot of issues to work through. The Maxx is her friend and client, a street bum who thinks he's a costumed superhero - or is it the other way around?The Maxx is not to be missed for the artwork, the story itself, or the excellent voice work - particularly the late Barry Stigler's deliciously urbane, drippingly evil voicing of the main villain, Mr. Gone.If you get the chance to see this, don't miss it.