The most depressing waste of time ever!

Rating: 1/10 (5 December 2011)

Generally, should you ask anyone on the street what they think when you say "animation" the overall answer would be something along the lines of funny, cheerful, entertaining, even the synopsis suggests a sweet story about two pen pals.
However, the choice of genre for this film was completely off the mark, live acting would have suited this script far better.
This film is not only a bleak view into the lives of two very sad, very pathetic people, but also a disturbingly depressing story about how said two pathetic people never attain any tangible form of progression in their lives. What kind of message is there to this film, accept yourself for who you are, even if it means that part of that "acceptance" means being okay with your life when the power to change your circumstances is within your grasp?
I don't see why this film has such a high rating (in the top 250 animated films on this site), there is nothing profound about the story line, you don't take any important lessons from it.
Mary and Max is just another forgettable story which had a lot of potential, but was unfortunately lost along the way.