9 (2009)
The Gist:
9 is essentially an apocalyptic vision of the future where little sack dolls brought to life by the splintered soul of their creator battle against the fiendish AI metal contraptions that extinguished all of humanity in the first place. It sounds badass in theory, and looks pretty badass in practice, but the film has no real feel for its own narrative. For one thing, the pacing is just off, distractingly fast paced, where things move so swiftly that we never manage to care about any of it. For another, the dialogue and the voice acting just feels wrong. Shane Acker based this feature on a short film of his that was nominated for an oscar, and you'll notice that the concept works better without dialogue. After all, it helps sustain the mystery of this nihilistic vision, something that adding voices to it just ruins. They should have gone Wall-E on this shit, that's all I'm saying (mind you, I think Wall-E would have been better without all the chatting from the people in the space station too).
On Another Note:
You should avoid this feature and just watch the short. You'll get more out of the concept that way. I'm including it below.
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