9 Review

A movie directed by Shane Acker, 9 was released on the 9th of September 2009. Produced by Tim Burton, this animated adventure drama sci-fi is set in a post-apocalypse era where man is extinguished by its own creations, machines.
It starts with a rag doll, with the inscription 9 on its back, awakening. He has no voice and is visibly confused. He picks up and examines an object that was near him and finding the inscriptions on it very intriguing, he takes it and stores it in his stomach, accessed by a zipper. He opens up a blind and we see a very dark and dreary place with only ruins of buildings left. He spots something moving on the ground and finds another rag doll called 2. 2 fixes 9's voice and they meet, although "Beast" shows up and carries away a screaming and pleading 2. 9 falls unconscious and wakes up in a sanctuary where other rag dolls are hiding. He is helped by a doll with only one eye called 5. He and 2 were great friends. He convinces 5 to go and save 2, but number 1, the leader, a great coward who only thought of hiding and his burly side kick 8 followed him, disagreed. 9 and 5 try to save 2 but 9 places the object he found in a slot which matches it and accidentally activates a lethal machine, called Brain. Brain kills 2 but numbers 9 and 5 are saved by brave adventurous 7. 7 takes them to her hideout and they meet 3 and 4, twins who have photographic memory and no voice. These dolls try to find out what they had awoken and shortly after they went to warn number 1 and 8, who tag along in their great adventure to stop Brain, who has the ability to create other machines using the debris around it.
I liked the animation and the variety of characters, each one having a different personality. 1, the so-called leader yet nothing but a selfish coward, 2, wise and elderly, 3 and 4, the childish twins, 5, the loyal yet scared of everything friend, number 6, who is the crazy artistic one, who seems to know alot about Brain. 7, the only "girl", adventurous and brave, 8 the great muscled doll, and 9, the hero of the story, who has a sense of loyalty and bravery and cunning.
One thing I didn't like about this movie was the attempted romance in which what can only be classified as an animated action movie.

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