Mary and Max (2009): 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. (8.2)
Director: Adam Elliot
Stars: Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Eric Bana
This is clay animation and that's tedious, hard work. Apparently, it took 57 weeks to complete this movie. It is well made movie. The story deals with grown-up themes such as loneliness, obesity, depression, etc. Yet, it is quite funny. The voice over narration is the main voice heard in the movie. That works, but I would have liked more of the actors voices. They could have used the New York and Australian accents to differentiate just like they did with the colors. My Rating: 7.0
