im not going to rate this movie as of yet.. im about 20 mins in.. needed to take a trip... by 20 mins i felt the urge to tell the world how epic this movie is.. it is a true masterpiece.. i need 5 lines of text.. im just wanting to get back to this fantastic film.. im just amazed... haven't seen animation and humor like this since.. ever.. EDIT: left me in tears.. true masterpiece

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)

A movie such as this one is a rare treat. A completely original - albeit inspired by the director's own life - movie from a first-time feature-length director that completely blows you away with its uniqueness, wit and charm. Mary and Max tells the story of its titular characters. Mary being a lonely Australian girl living with her two dysfunctional parents. One of them an alcoholic and the other a complete shut-in practically living in the backyard shed. One day Mary, on a childish whim, decides to write to a random American person. Except that the person on the other side decides to write back. He's Max, an obese forty-something man living alone in New York and suffering from crippling mental health problems.Sound creepy and depressing? Yeah, it does. And yet the thing is, this is one of the most heartwarming and sympathetic movies I've seen in my life. It's also one of the funniest. It is said that something cannot be funny without someone suffering. And boy is that true here. The film's humour is amazingly dark, drawing most of its laughs from the sheer dysfunctionality of its characters and their feeble attempts at improving their lot in life. And yet... yet it is never mean spirited. Mary and Max suffer, that much is true, but they very rarely let it get to them. And when they do, it's a genuinely sorrowful moment because at that point it's more than earned. And thus the movie is about living your life and finding happiness despite everything standing in your way. It's about individuality, about human worth, about friendship and the purpose of caring.It's also phenomenally well-made. It's stop-motion clay animation from start to finish with heavy emphasis being put on the use of colour, facial animation and stuff actually being there. And it looks gorgeous. A true testament to the strength of craftsmanship in this age of computer effects.Mary and Max is a true masterpiece. A film juggling both light and dark, examining both the best and worse qualities of human existence, all with a kind voice and a gentle laugh. A film no one's going to regret seeing.

i remember when i watched this movie the mixed feelings i got afterwards , it was so overwhelming and beautiful. it was really amazing how different parts of me could deeply relate to both of them , specially Mary's pure innocence and Max's loneliness. it was very elegant how the story goes and how smoothly it delivered satisfaction to me at the end. Adam Elliot was as brilliant as ever, he just knows how to reach that deep and complicated feelings of human beings and put in a story that may seem very simple and light. for me its in the top of my animation movie recommendations list. without hesitation i give it 10 out of 10.