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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:17
Rotten:9
Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: Although its story is perhaps too familiar and less complex than some might wish, 9 is visually spectacular, and director Shane Acker's attention to detail succeeds in drawing viewers into the film's universe.
Theatrical Release:Sep 9, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $31,691,649
Synopsis: A new era in animated storytelling begins on 9.9.09. Visionary filmmakers Tim Burton (The Corpse Bride, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory) and Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Nightwatch) join forces to... [More]
Starring: Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Crispin Glover
Director: Shane Acker
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Top Critic[Its] splendid visuals are dragged down by a tedious story.
Top CriticThe expanded cast of creatures looks great, dressed and animated in the homespun style Acker calls ''stitchpunk.''
Top CriticIt might have been an opportunity for the sort of challenging speculation sci-fi is best at, however, and the best reason to see it is simply because of the creativity of its visuals.
Top CriticThe post-apocalyptic adventure 9 adds up to everything except an obvious audience.
Top CriticAcker, whose gifts for mood, design, and character design are impressive enough to have attracted Tim Burton as a producer, is more of an artist than a storyteller.
Top CriticIt signals the arrival of Shane Acker as an audacious new talent to watch.
Top Critic9 is a captivating film with much to say about the human spirit -- even if humans are nowhere to be found.
Top CriticAcker has created a fitful combination of beautiful, dreamlike images that never knit together forcefully enough to seem individual or convincing.
Top CriticThe result is never as gripping in narrative terms -- a well-worn litany of dystopian-future chestnuts -- as it is visually, but Acker keeps things moving briskly for the movie's 70-odd minutes.
Top CriticIt's too bad the thin story didn't match the stylishly haunting visuals.
Top CriticExquisite visuals aside, 9 plays like a sock monkey version of Doom.
Top CriticFans of sophisticated, adult-oriented animation may savor Acker's elaborate visuals. Younger children, however, might wonder why they sat through all the terror.
Top CriticOne wonders, in fact, if 9 should have stuck with its original short format.
Top CriticAcker isn't taking us over the rainbow, but he has brought us someplace daring and new, and he makes you anxious to see what other destinations he has in mind.
Top CriticIt would be a shame if the most exciting and thoughtful CGI action movie of the year didn't find an audience because the film's heroes fail to pass the suspiciously high superhero-fitness test.
Top CriticWhile children still watching Tigger videos should stay away, older kids will enjoy the bloodless action and awesomeness infused into nearly every frame.
Top CriticComparing this to the summer's biggest, most bloated movie about malevolent robots, 9 is about twice as enjoyable with half the length.
Top CriticIt's too scary for small kids and, frankly, too dreary for everyone else. The most intriguing question it asks is what Acker will do next.
Top CriticWhat I loved about 9 is how much evident care its makers have put into it.
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September 08, 2009:
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September 04, 2009:
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