VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

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.

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.

ackstasis Harvie Krumpet (born Harvek Milos Krumpetzki in 1922) has perhaps the worst luck in the world. Afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome from birth, he has always found it difficult to fit in. When his mother and father freeze to death outside their burnt-down home, and World War II comes to his native Poland, Harvie emigrates to Spotswood, Australia to start a new life. Here, his luck scarcely improves. It isn't long before Harvie is struck by lightning, he tragically loses a testicle and the metal plate in his head becomes magnetised. However, it would be unfair to suggest that Harvie never experiences the good parts of life – he spends many years of happiness with his understanding wife, and their adopted Thalidomide daughter grows to become a successful and intelligent lawyer.In 2004, Adam Elliot's 'Harvie Krumpet' caused a sensation in Australia when it was awarded the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, beating out the likes of Pixar (in Bud Luckey's 'Boundin''). Elliot's poignant depiction of a man finding a reason to live amidst a life fraught with bad luck had a profound effect on audiences. Created entirely using claymation – a wonderful art that is growing scarcer with the advent of CGI animation – the film is great to look at, and narrated by the warm voice of Geoffrey Rush, a terrific Australian actor who is nowadays best recognised as Captain Barbossa from Gore Verbinski's 'Pirates of the Caribbean (2003).'Despite Rush's narration adding wonderfully to the tone of the film, I felt that perhaps it was used too often. Harvie's every action is carefully and methodically narrated to us, even in those moments when I felt that the animation could easily have spoken for itself. Nevertheless, 'Harvie Krumpet' is a touching story of one humble immigrant's life, and is guaranteed to help you find hope and happiness in the moments when you thought there was none.

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.