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By Trust Created	Summary	Acting	Film	Edge	Reality
TRUST WEIGHTED	OK	Good	OK	Tame	Surreal
AVERAGE	Great	Great	Great	Tame	Surreal
Wick 66 Trust Points Read Full Review » Trust This Reviewer WikChip - Empty Created Apr 10, 2011 12:16PM PST Edited Apr 23, 2011 02:30AM PST	Barely OK 2.0 Mary and Max renders a bone-dry absurdist story in claymation's grotesquely uncharitable visuals. Unfortunately the … More »	OK 2.5 Philip Seymour Hoffman sounds nothing like himself in voicing a middle-aged New Yorker. Impressive. More »	Barely OK 2.0 Claymation is an acquired taste, in part because it facilitates a grotesque visual depiction of people. Grotesque visu… More »	Tame 1.5	Supernatural 3.2 Asperger's syndrome gets charitably explored in Mary and Max, one of the movie's occasional grace notes. Those affec… More »
izzio 10 Trust Points Read Full Review » Trust This Reviewer WikChip - Empty Created Jul 16, 2010 05:29AM PST Edited Jul 16, 2010 05:29AM PST	Perfect 5.0 This movie is nothing short of genius. Mary and Max is a story of two unlikely friends- one small girl with no friends,… More »	Perfect 5.0 The famous ones here are Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Toni Collette. Both of them are outstanding voice actors, as we le… More »	Perfect 5.0 The claymation is obviously the first thing you'll notice. It's absolutely beautiful. It's not Coraline animations, but… More »	Tame 1.5 Some cartoon nudity, but nothing too bad. Also, there is an extremely haunting scene where someone puts a noose around … More »	Natural 1.0 This is supposedly based on a true story… I trust them More »
BigdaddyDave 5 Trust Points Read Full Review » Trust This Reviewer WikChip - Empty Created Feb 21, 2011 01:43PM PST Edited Feb 21, 2011 01:43PM PST	Really Great 4.5 An enjoyable clay-mation film that speaks volumes about relationships and trust. Although at first blush one could easi… More »	Really Great 4.5 Very nice vocal work done by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Toni Collette. Hoffmn in particular continues to impress me wit… More »	Really Great 4.5 Amazing caly-mation work leads to the magical qualities of the film. More »	Tame 1.5 Some funny but innocent dialouge about the birds and the bees, along with Max's inabilities to comprehend adult relatio… More »	Surreal 2.2 It's clay-mation, so there is going to be a certain degree of "fake-ness", but if you can get past that, you'll find a … More »

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Wick
66 Trust Points
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WikChip - Empty
Created Apr 10, 2011 12:16PM PST

Edited Apr 23, 2011 02:30AM PST

Barely OK 2.0

Mary and Max renders a bone-dry absurdist story in claymation's grotesquely uncharitable visuals. Unfortunately the …

OK 2.5

Philip Seymour Hoffman sounds nothing like himself in voicing a middle-aged New Yorker. Impressive.

Barely OK 2.0

Claymation is an acquired taste, in part because it facilitates a grotesque visual depiction of people. Grotesque visu…

Tame 1.5

Supernatural 3.2

Asperger's syndrome gets charitably explored in Mary and Max, one of the movie's occasional grace notes. Those affec…

izzio
10 Trust Points
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Created Jul 16, 2010 05:29AM PST

Edited Jul 16, 2010 05:29AM PST

Perfect 5.0

This movie is nothing short of genius. Mary and Max is a story of two unlikely friends- one small girl with no friends,…

Perfect 5.0

The famous ones here are Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Toni Collette. Both of them are outstanding voice actors, as we le…

Perfect 5.0

The claymation is obviously the first thing you'll notice. It's absolutely beautiful. It's not Coraline animations, but…

Tame 1.5

Some cartoon nudity, but nothing too bad. Also, there is an extremely haunting scene where someone puts a noose around …

Natural 1.0

This is supposedly based on a true story… I trust them

BigdaddyDave
5 Trust Points
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Created Feb 21, 2011 01:43PM PST

Edited Feb 21, 2011 01:43PM PST

Really Great 4.5

An enjoyable clay-mation film that speaks volumes about relationships and trust. Although at first blush one could easi…

Really Great 4.5

Very nice vocal work done by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Toni Collette. Hoffmn in particular continues to impress me wit…

Really Great 4.5

Amazing caly-mation work leads to the magical qualities of the film.

Tame 1.5

Some funny but innocent dialouge about the birds and the bees, along with Max's inabilities to comprehend adult relatio…

Surreal 2.2

It's clay-mation, so there is going to be a certain degree of "fake-ness", but if you can get past that, you'll find a …

Apr 10, 2011 5:38PM BigdaddyDave	Regarding BigdaddyDave’s Review No worries. If we all liked the same movies, there would be no need for movie crticism. I appreciate your honesty.
Apr 10, 2011 12:20PM Wick	Regarding Wick’s Review Sorry to harsh the buzz guys, but I couldn’t warm up to this movie.
Feb 22, 2011 9:22PM izzio	Regarding BigdaddyDave’s Review SOOOO happy you feel the same about this AMAZING movie

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