Dave Made a Maze
Dave (Nick Thune, Knocked Up), a frustrated artist who has yet to accomplish anything significant in his career, builds a fort out of cardboard boxes in his living room, only to wind up trapped by the fantastical pitfalls and critters of his own creation.
Ignoring his warnings, Dave's girlfriend Annie (Meera Rohit Kumbhani, The Mindy Project) leads a band of oddball explorers on a rescue mission. Upon entry, they find themselves in an ever-changing supernatural world, threatened by booby traps and pursued by a bloodthirsty Minotaur.
Reimagining classic 80's adventure films with a modern comedic edge, the handmade fantasy world of DAVE MADE A MAZE comes to life with puppetry, stop-motion animation, and on-camera optical illusions.
Winner of the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Slamdance Film Festival. Winner of Best Picture at the Boston Underground Film Festival.
"[Director Bill] Watterson, assisted by in-sync acting...efficient editing, innovative gags and dazzling DIY production design, has delivered a rush of loony fun." - Anita Katz, San Francisco Examiner
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Comments (7)
Funny, cool art, trippy vibes, etc. Broke the monotony of my typical viewing experience. Good to throw on if you're bored and can't decide what to watch.
Watch it for the cardboard art.
Trippy and clever but it goes on to long.
It's a fantastic idea for a movie, but the execution is a failure. Really hard to stay interested in the plot.
Cute, but felt long for some reason.
I wanted to like this more than I did. They had an interesting idea: guy gets lost in his cardboard box fort. OK, great, but you'll need a bit more for a movie. The characters are annoying & forgettable, the ways you can & can't escape (ie: the plot) seem arbitrary, and there's no ...Read more
I wanted to like this more than I did. They had an interesting idea: guy gets lost in his cardboard box fort. OK, great, but you'll need a bit more for a movie. The characters are annoying & forgettable, the ways you can & can't escape (ie: the plot) seem arbitrary, and there's no particular meaning to the film. I can see people liking this movie because of the visuals -- much of it was clever and well executed but other times you just felt like the characters are standing in a room with cardboard taped to the walls. Or that somebody thought of a visual effect and threw in just because it was odd (b&w, paper bag puppets). I should go rewatch The Science of Sleep.
Read lessSuch a fun indie comedy. The production design/art direction was so cool! I really loved the world of the maze. It felt like a bunch of comedians made a Michel Gondry film.