Grimerlana Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

alexeykorovin I so rarely give a 10 on imdb but this cartoon (clayography) is a work of a genius. I'll recommend all people I know to watch it.The topic is ordinary people and their lives. Adam Elliot handles it at least as masterfully as Dostoevski, just in a different medium (animation instead of literature). Reminded me of "Poor Folk".Is there something like Nobel Prize for movies? Adam Elliot deserves it.

jusco15 Three words to describe Adam Elliot's (master of clay animation) 22 min and 7 sec film Harvie Krumpet: sardonic and poignant. This Academy Award winning short film follows the title character, a naïve but optimistic Polish who ends up in Australia, and his unlucky life. That is an understatement; he gets struck by lightning, has his testicle removed, is plagued by Tourette's Syndrome, just to name a few. But one single phrase (Carpe diem) causes him to embrace life despite his unfortunate circumstances (hooray for nudist colonies and chickens!). Crafted in both a humorous and distressing manner – you will laugh one moment then sink back into depression out of sympathy for Harvie – and superbly narrated by Geoffrey Rush, this film will make you smile and want to lead a better life. After all, if Harvie Krumpet can do it, you can too.

uroskin The Arts Channel put this clay-mation gem that won the 2003 Oscar on after their fascinating series on the painter Raphael. Harvie Krumpet is the life story of a Polish immigrant to Australia, and a very sad but horrifically funny tale it is. But that doesn't prohibit anyone from laughing with the really black humour involving personal misfortune, accidents of history and of your own making, grandparental home schooling, depression and its cures, Alzheimer's and its mercies, magnetic skull plates and nudism (don't ask). It was great fun and highly recommended if you can find it in the DVD shop! The 2003 Oscar was absolutely well-deserved.Favourite "Fakt": In nude dancing, after the music stops, not everything does.

mcdoogleent Granted, I can see how the film was fairly boring and at times depressing, but it was still art, it still had a purpose, it still portrayed a glum, American splendorous existence in our modern age, and I for one enjoyed it. I do think that it was Oscar worthy, but I don't view an Oscar as a very prestigious award considering some of the crap that wins awards every year. So if you are one who loves the Academy Awards, sees a film that you didn't terribly enjoy win an award, then I suppose that you may fall under the same critical bias as the principle reviewer of this film and you should listen to what he/she said. But if you are like me, you don't have a great view of the Academy-Hollywood-Crapfest Awards, and you like dark, raw, honest film-making, then I think that like me you will enjoy Harvey Krumpet.