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Summary: The sad, strange life of Harvie, who is born into an impoverished Middle European existence, and whose one constant is the book of "fakts" he keeps adding to, worn around his neck. After a childhood tragedy, he emigrates to Australia, where he has a succession of menial jobs, eventually ending up in a retirement home. Along the way, he has a string of bad luck, leaving him with, among other things, a steel plate in his skull that becomes a magnet. (imdb)
The short precursor to, and kind of rough sketch for, Mary and Max. After making a few shorter shorts about fictional family members, Adam Elliot is here completely settled into his brand of humor that consists in mocking the misfortunes of his extravagantly unfortunate characters. It does end with a mischievous smirk on Harvie's behalf (after it is done having fun at his expense) but it is still nowhere as clever, focused or purposeful as Mary and Max.
One funny line amidst this sad, ugly, mean-spirited short. It's not even that funny. The better qualities most others attach to this don't seem to hold water.
"Retarded migrant becomes human magnet!" Harvey Krumpet, a victim to the world, a stoic everyman fighting against the existential nothingness, the void threatening to engulf us all... AND the main character in one awesome short story at turns sad and funny. Points for thougtful, minimalist claymation technique as well. Less is indeed more. Above all other things, however, was Harvey's tongue and lip ticks - with their "doouuuh!" sound. They never failed to make me smile!
Fakt # 1246: Harvie may have been an unlucky, somehow sad creature that made no difference in the world whatsoever, but his movie makes all the difference
This had the potential to plunge headfirst into the overly maudlin or overly mean, but managed to keep its balance and came out bizarrely heartwarming.
this is nothing short of a miracle, a wonderful story narrated by an extremely competent person, and the art work is great. it's funny and sad at the same time, and i really dont know how to feel at the end.
An excellent story of a character that means nothing to the world, but everything to a handful people and ultimately, himself. One of the more empathetic films I have seen.
I saw this along with three other shorts that aren't even worth uploadind to Criticker (even though great effort has been put into them), and this one really stood up. While the crowd behind me was dying of laughter, I thought that it was a rather tragic tale; and it's surprising how, through such a somber, dark tale, we recieve such a positive messege that might just bring back to us, dark souls, our will to live.
Amazingly entertaining. It's original and ingenius, covering a full life, with all of its richness and brushes of absurdity. And it's probably one of the best short films I have ever seen, animated or otherwise.
How come nobody wrote the quote "God is better than football" yet? A wonderfully humorous yet uplifting story of a man constantly met with hardship, but still finds the will to live. One of the better animated shorts I've seen.
I'm probably being unfair, and I thought it was okay, but naked claymation figures just don't sit right with me for some reason. It wasn't all that funny or profound or whatever it was trying to be either.
Such a sad and morbid story. From the moment Harvey is born, he has bad luck until the very end. It's almost makes you feel awful, but you can't help but laugh at how unlucky the goofy looking Harvey can be. In the end, it's actually a somewhat uplifiting short, reminding you that it could always be worse.
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