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  • Showrogan
    December 4, 2009
    Showrogan
    Review pending...
  • YLOWBSTARDreturns
    November 22, 2009
    YLOWBSTARDreturns
    "9" is an ambitious film with extraordinary visuals that unfortunately just doesn't quite gel into a cohesive whole. The plot and characters are extremely thin and forgettable, but as a visual feast "9" excels. On that one strength alone, the film works just enough to be recommen...( read more)ded.
  • thmtsang
    November 4, 2009
    thmtsang
    This animation is about a group of 9 fabric characters who are the last survivors on earth. The earth has been destroyed by machines that have taken over the world and they are killing everything in sight. Number 9, the last of the fabric characters convinces the others to destro...( read more)y the machines rather than live in fear and hiding. Good animation. Quite dark, not suitable for young children.
  • phubbs1
    November 3, 2009
    phubbs1
    After both Timur Bekmambetov and Tim Burton had a hand in producing this I was kinda expecting some far out fantasy with dark goth elements and neat action sequences but alas its the oppersite (well the action scenes are ok), the whole plot is a very over used story of machines o...( read more)vertaking the earth and killing everyone, oh and humans made them in the first place hmmm. So really you have a total mix of The Matrix, Terminator some Dark Crystal and many other films involving robots/machines gone wrong.
    It certainly has an epic feel to it, the design and look is excellent with heavy metallic, grimy, rusty, dark colours and themes thick and fast, with a kind of techo, steam punk, industrial crossover with cute little smurf type heroes battling the evil machines..which unfortunately look like the machines from The Matrix.

    You could also include a heavy WWII feel to this, the gritty propergander and hope sense to the human struggle via flashbacks and the fact that some machines look like giant Nazi trooper helmets on legs haha again films such as Mutant Chronicles and Sky Captain spring to mind.

    Anyway apart from the heavy borrowings from other films its a reasonable flick, not really a kids film though despite the cgi, its pretty dark, brooding and bleak to be honest with quite afew hints at death thrown in. The main characters are pretty odd looking, they are just small sacks lets be honest, sewn together with clockwork bits inside haha unusual to say the least. Voice work is one of the better aspects with a great cast line up which really helps sell the doom n gloom but with the plot needing more explanation and time (its only about 1h 20min) you can't help but feel this could of been alot better, making it look abit more adult could of helped too.

    A cult classic in the waiting maybe.
  • her69eyes
    October 28, 2009
    her69eyes
    It was only last summer that "WALL-E" told us to be kind to our fellow plants, and now we have "9" - an illustration of humanity's impending doom at the hands of our own greed and military pursuits. While "WALL-E" was a sweet film for the whole family, "9" has earned itself a PG-...( read more)13 rating due to it's dark monstrosity of a world. The problem? Eighty minutes is not long enough to invest in nine personalities, and it's not short enough to retain the awe-striking power of it's visuals throughout the entirety of the picture.

    When 9 (Elijah Wood) is awakened, he's an intruder in an unknown world - one with a war-torn landscape, bodies strewn across the ground, and fellow canvas puppets wondering the broken streets. After he meets 2 (Martin Landau), an intelligent and resourceful companion, a skeletal cat with glowing red eyes makes it's presence known. The scuffle leads to 2's kidnap, and he will serve as the ingredient to awaken a much smarter, and much more menacing machine.

    9 wishes to save 2, and so he does his best to recruit his newly-found family for the task: 1 (Christopher Plummer), their ignorant and fearful leader, 5 (John C. Reilly), a one-eyed kind-hearted oaf, and 7 (Jennifer Connelly), a masterful swords-woman with a helmet constructed out of a bird's skull. They're up against an arachnid machine with a glowing red eye, an intelligent creation with the ability to create it's own diabolical henchmen.

    The director is Shane Acker, a young man who graduated from UCLA and received an Oscar nomination in 2006 for his animated short, "9", which first introduced these sack people and their robotic foes. As much as it feels like a passion project visually, with it's vast world and the intricate detail found in each of his creations, there's not much meat on it's bones. Rather than saying anything remarkable and fully utilizing the depths of the science fiction genre, Acker settles for one single-minded action sequence after the other. It's safe to say that the film's best moments are the quiet ones, but those are so few and far between that it's not high praise.

    The plot is simply serviceable, but there are many questions left unanswered. Why did this scientist create nine figures in his image, so frail and small, to go up against a machine with the sole intention of killing them? And why was this machine programmed to harvest souls in the first place? Such questions would be forgivable if the film had heart to go along with the action, but there's not much else to think about when you're staring at a never-ending blur of battle sequences.

    "9" should be praised for it's creativity - the animation is stunning, the art design is original, and the world is unpredictable. But no matter how pretty the film looks, it doesn't quite live up to the standards that better animated films have set with more engaging plots and memorable characters.
  • eryri
    December 17, 2009
    eryri
    Exciting action packed CG animated adventure set in a post apocalyptic future in which machines have declared war on humans and killed them all. 9 is a small rag doll that's come alive and with other survivors of his kind band together to stop a fearsome robotic machine from dest...( read more)roying them. I enjoyed this very much. Great storyline, beautiful animation with plenty of thrills to keep anybody interested. I suppose there's a moral to this tale somewhere.
  • Rewster
    December 14, 2009
    Rewster
    Based on a short-film, '9' is an intriguing, weird, orginal film with stunning visuals and interesting concepts. Too dark for children, but it's thought provocative as it comments on the danger of society's over reliance with machines. These themes have been used time and again i...( read more)n such classic films like 'Terminator', 'Wall-E' and of course '2001'. But '9' is unique in the apocalyptic world that is presented and the strange characters and ideas.
  • kubrickian
    December 13, 2009
    kubrickian
    While the story may seem familiar, classic even, the amount of creativity on display here is astounding.
  • mirandir2
    December 13, 2009
    mirandir2
    Börjar bra men blir sämre ju längre filmen lider
  • hamzeh93
    December 13, 2009
    hamzeh93
    woohoo , now that was awesome ! i enjoyed every single moment in this
    Film it is really The Animated Movie ! these guys worked so hard on the
    Characters and theme and so on. really great animated movie but
    actually although the scenes was very good , i felt like the story was
    mis...( read more)sing something , i was very excited to watch it actually at the
    beginning of showing it in Theaters , but after i watched my enthusiasm
    was a little bit down out of my expectations , but though it is awesome
    ! one thing that i really hate is it's Duration , i really felt the
    movie needed more time !!! and the ending i wish it was more motivated
    ! after all , it's nearly my favourite animated movie this year :D
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