This quirky film is amazingly creative but suffers from a lagging middle part and boring leads. Dave, who never finishes anything, has built a maze made out of cardboard in the middle of his apartment. But this maze is like The TARDIS - way bigger on the inside - and the truth is that Dave can't find his way out. Can't just rip it down, either, as it's a part of him now. His girlfriend and a host of friends and acquaintances enter the maze in an effort to retrieve Dave. Might have worked better if it was more fantastical, but it incorporates real-word consequences into the plot. Definitely imaginative, though.
Dave Made a Maze
2017
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Horror
Dave Made a Maze
2017
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Horror
Plot summary
'Dave Made A Maze' re-imagines classic 80's adventure films with a modern comedic edge and a higher body count. Dave, an artist who has yet to complete anything significant in his career, builds a fort in his living room out of pure frustration, only to wind up trapped by the fantastical pitfalls, booby traps, and critters of his own creation. Ignoring his warnings, Dave's girlfriend Annie leads a band of oddball explorers on a rescue mission. The handmade fantasy world comes to life with puppetry, stop-motion animation, and in-camera optical illusions, re-igniting the tactile sense of wonder from the movies of our childhoods.
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But that James Urbaniak was pretty cool.
Timewaster
I checked this one out because it was put out on blu-ray by Arrow Films here in the UK amid their usual cult horror and Italian exploitation. You do have to wonder why. This is a very low budget hipster comedy about a guy who constructs a maze out of cardboard and gets stuck in it. Other characters enter the scene and try to rescue him. It's all very surreal and has some good visuals, you don't question the sense or the look of the maze itself, but what lets this down is a silly, infantile script and the annoying characters. What should become a comedic version of the likes of CUBE instead becomes a pure timewaster you're waiting to finish.
If it was easy, everyone would do it.
Annie (Meera Rohit Kumbhani) comes home and discovers a large cardboard box in her living room. Her boyfriend Dave (Nick Thune) is inside the box and can't find his way out. She protests at the stupidity of it all and eventually some friends with camera equipment show up and likewise can not fathom the issue...until they all enter the maze. As Dave says, "It's a lot bigger on the inside." Technically it is a labyrinth with traps and a Minotaur. Some of the rooms appeared to be inspired from movie scenes, but not an homage. The cardboard set was clever and must have took a while to make up. It is clearly a cult film, and one that if it was made in the 60's would be called either a stoner film or an acid film. It is so idiotic it is clever.
Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity. Not for everyone.