9 Review

Now to Buddah's first review

Recently on 9-9-09 a movie called 9 was released. The film, highly anticipated, was a let down. Why you may ask? Well for one if you think that this is a Tim Burton film its not. The real man behind it all is Shane Acker the guy who brought us nerds the CG animation in "Lord of the Rings Return of the King". 9 is based off its earlier predecessor short film also called 9. It was a project that Acker made while in college. Due to its success the movie was then proposed for a feature length film. I would hardly call this a feature film due to the duration of only 79 minutes its more like a t.v. movie. Another problem with the movie is that all the action shown in the trailer is the same there weren't any more. Not to put Acker down but I think that he should of put more work into the project and have a later release.

The movie is set in a time period where humans are extinct and so 9 potato sacks are left to save the human-less planet. Their mission is simple fight off evil robots who look like the toys from Sid's room ("Toy Story"). In the beginning we find earth a desalinate planet and a potato sack named 9 (Elijah Wood). As nine wakes up he can't do anything (but they expect him to save the world). He then meets up with 5 (John C. Riley) from there the two get acquainted and then five takes 9 back to the others where he meets 2 (Martian Landau), 3 and 4 the silent ones, 6 (Crispin Glover), 7 (Jennifer Conally), and 8(Fred Tatasciore). From there they don't trust him at first but some do then in the end after fighting off evil robots.

The story line itself isn't bad but can be improved because we've all heard it before evil robots have taken the world and a group of heroes are our last hope.

In conclusion, 9 was a good movie but it didn't live up to its hype. It left us hanging. Although, it was a let down we hope the creators will make a sequel called 10. That will release on 10-10-10.

Oops, got to go. I have to re-tape my glasses....

Directed by: Shane Acker

Written by: Shane Acker

Produced by: Tim Burton, Timur Bekmambetov,

Dana Ginsburg, and Jim Lemley

Cast

Elijah Wood - as 9
Jennifer Connelly - as 7
Christopher Plummer - as 1
Martin Landau - as 2
John C Reilly - as 5
Fred Tatasciore - as 8
Crispin Glover - as 6
Alan Oppenheimer - as Scientist
Tom Kane - as Dictator