Matcollis
This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.
VeteranLight
I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.
PiraBit
if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.
Kimball
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
mark-506
This comedy-drama starts with a neat idea: Dave, a 30-year-old slacker (Nick Thune), builds a whimsical cardboard fort in his apartment. Inside the fort, however, lies a seemingly endless labyrinth which traps him, his girlfriend, and numerous other acquaintances. There are plenty of inventive visuals on display, but writer/director Bill Watterson - no relation to the "Calvin and Hobbes" cartoonist - and cowriter Steven Sears don't know where to take them.The film's MVPs are production designers Trisha Gum and John Sumner and art director Jeff White. What they and their team have accomplished, with what was surely a minuscule budget, is spectacular. Room after cardboard room, the sets amaze and delight. But Watterson's staging is uninspired and Jon Boal's cinematography looks cheap. Mostly, however, the script is to blame: the kernel of a good story is lost, like its characters, in a cardboard maze of unfunny gags and the occasional bit of psychobabble. (There's some symbolic blarney about how the maze represents Dave's creative inertia or something.) James Urbaniak, the poor man's Kyle MacLachlan, is always a welcome presence, though his meddling documentarian character grows tiresome. (Blame the script, not the actor.) Adam Busch is likewise game, but the weak material drags him down. The rest of the cast is unremarkable.I genuinely dislike criticizing a film that was clearly a labor of love for its creators, but Dave Made a Maze was so frustrating that I had to come here to lament its wasted potential. Bravo to the art department, though.
patmailbox-junk
Every turn in this cardboard gem reveals another creative conundrum that must be dealt with by those trapped inside. A quirky,enjoyable and refreshingly different movie. I loved it.
Saj
WTF.. WOW WOW WOW. okay here goes started watching this with my daughter, who's 15,last week. Ten minutes in she decided to turn it off as she found it boring. Fast forward to today, off work sick and I thought I'd give it another shot. Quite simply the possibilities of childhood mingling with adult permissions add a dash of some left field imagination and humour... Bingo. Watch watch watch.
vishnu-dileep08
Summary (no spoilers)This movie is about an artist Dave who has not achieved any success in life ends up building a fort in his living room only to get trapped by the bizarre pitfalls, booby traps and a creature of his own creation.My Review (no spoilers)The plot of this movie was a complete disaster. It had a promising start but ended up really stupid seriously how this could be made into a movie. There was very little adventure, not so funny comedy and last but not the least no horror. None of the actors did a convincing job. If this was there plan of making a movie then they could have added one more genre to the movie called fantasy. The fort he built looked like a dump in his living room and he enters inside to find it like a mansion inside. It also had a predictable and boring ending to the movie. the movie should have been named as "Dave took a dump".My RecommendationNo Stay Away while you can don't do the same mistake that I did.My Rating0/10
