Mary and Max/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Acceptable Targets: After Max's air-conditioning unit falls out of his appartment and crushes a mime artist.

Narrator: "Luckily, [Max's] manslaughter charges were dismissed, because he was labeled mentally deficient, and unlikely to have a motive for killing a mime artist. Unlike most people."

  • Animation Age Ghetto: It's clay animation, so it must be for kids, right? Wrong.
  • Award Snub: This movie received no nominations at the 82nd Academy Awards. It has however won at least one smaller animation award.
    • Things aren't so bad for Adam Elliot, though -- his previous film, "Harvie Krumpet", won an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film.
  • Crowning Moment of Awesome: Max gives Mary a rather silly bit of advice on how to stop another kid from bullying her. It works.
  • Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: Several.
  • Nightmare Fuel: The "Que Sera Sera" sequence, especially when it shows that Mary is with child.
    • And when Mary finally visits Max, and cuddles up next to his corpse.
  • Tearjerker: Again, the "Que Sera Sera" sequence, and all that built up to it. Mary's sheer misery and self-loathing is utterly tragic.
  • The Woobie: Both Mary and Max, very much so.