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An Eye-Catching Cacophony of Cardboard Craft - Dave Made a Maze

  Meaning … A kingdom of cardboard I craft and mold with my own two hands. Art … both beauty and  destruction, if left untempered  in expression.  In a world masooned by the ceaseless assault of cinematic cgi, Bill Watterson’s “Dave Made a Maze” breaks the mold with a stunning practical production feat, the likes the modern world has seldom seen. But do all other elements hold up as well as the hand-crafted kingdom put before us? Or does the film whimper and mold like an old cardboard crate left out in the rain? Let’s get into it. Dave Made a Maze centers on the titular floundering artist, Dave ( Nick Thune ), who struggles to complete any project he begins. However, amidst coping with the dwindling good will of his parents and girlfriend, Dave has a stroke of creation and envelopes himself in the construction of a box fort maze in his apartment living room. But problems arise when his girlfriend, Annie ( Meera Rohit Kumbhani ), returns home to find him trapped w...