Mary and Max
… is the cutest movie I’ve seen in a very long time.
I have a huge appreciation for all the work that goes into making a movie like this.
Mary and Max is a 92 minute Australian ‘clayography’ stopmotion film that took almost 5 years from script to screen to make. Each of the six animators on average created 4 seconds a day!
Max (my favourite Atheist) is played by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Mary is played by Toni Collette. There are plenty of other big names in this movie too.
Watch the trailer here:
Some other facts about the movie…
- 133 separate sets were created for the film
- 475 miniature props were made, BY HAND!
- 394 individual pupils were hand punched then had a white, sparkly dot painted on them
- 147 tailor made costumes were created
- 808 miniature Earl Grey tea bag boxes were hand cut, folded, glued, wrapped and airbrushed.
- 12 litres of water based sex lube were needed to create everything from tears to a surging jungle river.
Mary and Max is innocent but not naive, as it takes us on a journey that explores friendship, autism, taxidermy, psychiatry, where babies come from , obesity, religious difference, agoraphobia and much, MUCH more.
I highly recommend it. 
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