Anomalisa (2015)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Good concept, poorly executed.

A Major Disappointment

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The Claymation character 'Michael Stone' is on a business trip to deliver a speech on customer service, he meets a woman and they find an emotional connection.This is a unique animated film, the themes being explored are loneliness, isolation, vulnerabilities, social awkwardness, and fear of rejection.This is really fascinating film. There are some deep messages. It's about as perfect as you can imagine. You won't watch anything like it!This is one of the easiest maximum scored I've ever awarded.

This film couldn't be made with live action because it's *too* real. Okay, the identical faces and voices aside, Anomalisa truly grasps what we all seek (and many of us achieve)-the alleviation of our personal suffering. Many of the previous comments chide the depiction of comfortable first-world problems, but in any social strata of humanity, our relationships with others are the source of much of the pain and distance we feel from our fellow man. Another Kaufman masterpiece. And kudos to the filmmakers and animators for the most realistic depiction of intimacy I've scene on film.

Fortunately I was able to cut through this unusual, but crappy film, by fast forwarding through the dullest of dialogs. Don't waste your time on this so-called animated waste.

I'd go that far as too say that ANOMALISA is almost as dense and multi layered as the E.T.A. Hoffmann classical story DER SANDMANN, also including the puppet as a major metaphorical figure, the one Sigmund Freud used to explain the Uncanny in his prominent essay. The film can be read as a story about individuality and individualism in our times and/or about a mean psychosis coming alive and/or male and female sexual longings and/or a typical mid-life crisis of a semi-famous man realizing how detached he feels to his entire life and/or a desperate, sincere prayer to a God perceived as the ultimate puppet master doubled in the puppets within the story and double doubled within the dreams of the puppets within the story etc. ANOMALISA is surely a complex little film, but luckily at the same time told very straight forwardly and laid back, almost relaxed, which makes it easy to watch it through — and just beautifully animated from the puppet faces to the lightning choreographies within the virtual, shoe-box like spaces. Sometimes it is funny and sometimes dramatically sad, often it is both at the same time. Almost always it is intellectually stimulating and a pleasure for your eyes and ears.