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43 of 43 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray|Amazon Verified Purchase
Mankind has pursued technology too far and been destroyed by it. Again. A small group of resistance fighters carry the hopes of all mankind. Again. But this time mankind is represented by 9 small stitched toys.
This is one of those films that will divide opinion. It looks fantastic. Imagine a story drawn lovingly frame by frame by French graphic artist Moebius and then pulled together as a movie by Delicatessen era Jean-Pierre Jeunet and you will begin to picture how this film looks (tonally I was reminded of Delicatessen and Alien Resurrection a number of times). There is so much attention to detail, like the dust motes floating in the scene where 9 first wakes up, and the tooling scratches on the brass tools used by the inventor. Stitchpunk, the style has been called but that's the characters; their world is very much steampunk.
So far, so good. If, like me, you can drool over the visuals, that might be enough for you. In terms of storytelling, the assistance of producers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov retain a cinematic style that keeps the interest and there are genuinely atmospheric moments. The problem is that the story is a familiar one (as per the opening paragraph of this review), the only difference being the graphic style and the unusual characters. I watched 'Up' only a few days ago and had completely the opposite experience: I was moved by the story and stopped noticing the visuals after a few minutes. During '9' I admired the visuals without becoming lost in the story.
This is not a film for small children but given some of the dark stuff on the Cartoon Network nowadays, 7 and upwards I would expect to enjoy it.
The limited edition comes in a hardback book. Not with a book, in the book! It's a nice touch and the book is printed on quality paper. The content is largely scenes from the film with some storyboards, character designs and occasional soundbites from director or producers. Whether you'll appreciate it depends pretty much on your opinion of the film, i.e. it looks nice but there's not much content.
The Blu-ray transfer is excellent with lots of detail in the predominantly dark scenes, sound steerage is also good with lots going on in the surround channels. Extras include a commentary, deleted scenes and featurettes but also the original short film that was extended to make the movie.
This is one of those films that will divide opinion. It looks fantastic. Imagine a story drawn lovingly frame by frame by French graphic artist Moebius and then pulled together as a movie by Delicatessen era Jean-Pierre Jeunet and you will begin to picture how this film looks (tonally I was reminded of Delicatessen and Alien Resurrection a number of times). There is so much attention to detail, like the dust motes floating in the scene where 9 first wakes up, and the tooling scratches on the brass tools used by the inventor. Stitchpunk, the style has been called but that's the characters; their world is very much steampunk.
So far, so good. If, like me, you can drool over the visuals, that might be enough for you. In terms of storytelling, the assistance of producers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov retain a cinematic style that keeps the interest and there are genuinely atmospheric moments. The problem is that the story is a familiar one (as per the opening paragraph of this review), the only difference being the graphic style and the unusual characters. I watched 'Up' only a few days ago and had completely the opposite experience: I was moved by the story and stopped noticing the visuals after a few minutes. During '9' I admired the visuals without becoming lost in the story.
This is not a film for small children but given some of the dark stuff on the Cartoon Network nowadays, 7 and upwards I would expect to enjoy it.
The limited edition comes in a hardback book. Not with a book, in the book! It's a nice touch and the book is printed on quality paper. The content is largely scenes from the film with some storyboards, character designs and occasional soundbites from director or producers. Whether you'll appreciate it depends pretty much on your opinion of the film, i.e. it looks nice but there's not much content.
The Blu-ray transfer is excellent with lots of detail in the predominantly dark scenes, sound steerage is also good with lots going on in the surround channels. Extras include a commentary, deleted scenes and featurettes but also the original short film that was extended to make the movie.
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Considering this was a independent low budget animated film of the highest quality and is Shane's first featuer film direction it makes all those big studio productions some what embarrassing, The Animation alone is fascinating.
It's a simple story, with not a huge amount of character development but then theres a reason for it as theses dolls make up part of the scientists soul. Theres so much attention to details theres enough to keep coming back for several viewings.
And it has a fantastic ending leaving you full of wonder and mystery.
Two things wrong, First is a bit too short, while it's not worth adding stuff for the sake of it i felt it needed just a little bit more time to push the story a bit, build up more tension and learn a bit more about our hero's. The other thing it film can't decide if it wants to be mature and appeal to adults or Teens. It kinda stuck in between swinging form one to the other but it was grand effort to try and make a modern CG film with a bit more punch and seriousness.
Nice soundtrack too.
Rating should be 4.5 but I'll add the extra half for DVD content. :)
It's a simple story, with not a huge amount of character development but then theres a reason for it as theses dolls make up part of the scientists soul. Theres so much attention to details theres enough to keep coming back for several viewings.
And it has a fantastic ending leaving you full of wonder and mystery.
Two things wrong, First is a bit too short, while it's not worth adding stuff for the sake of it i felt it needed just a little bit more time to push the story a bit, build up more tension and learn a bit more about our hero's. The other thing it film can't decide if it wants to be mature and appeal to adults or Teens. It kinda stuck in between swinging form one to the other but it was grand effort to try and make a modern CG film with a bit more punch and seriousness.
Nice soundtrack too.
Rating should be 4.5 but I'll add the extra half for DVD content. :)
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Obviously a large number of viewers have loved this movie, and I would have to say that I agree with the comments about the splendid attention to detail in the graphics, and I also understand the reviewers who say that they admired the visuals without becoming absorbed in the story. As I see it, there isn't really much to grab hold of as far as the story-telling is concerned. In a great war humanity has been annihilated, with self-motivated machines having nothing better to do than to chase these pint-sized receptacles of the soul of humanity. When the mighty animates finally defeat the machines, they finish with 'The world belongs to us now', and rather than feeling inspired, hopeful or even interested my thoughts were simply 'so what?!?' This is not salvation for humanity, this is not a new beginning, the characters are so one dimensional that there isn't even a great deal of solace in the individuals that survived.
It's worth seeing this film for the quirky, excellent visuals - it looks as if it should have something profound to say - don't be disappointed when it doesn't.
It's worth seeing this film for the quirky, excellent visuals - it looks as if it should have something profound to say - don't be disappointed when it doesn't.
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SO BEAUTIFULLY ANIMATED, FANTASTIC STORY & A TRUE TRUE MASTERPIECE!!!!
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It was lovely, well animated and voiced, and very thought provoking. Read more
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Was a present 4 my son so he was very happy and so was I x
Was a present 4 my son so he was very happy and so was I x
Published 8 months ago by Ms. S. Chuku
4 out of 5 for 9.
For the price of the DVD you can't go wrong. I fully enjoyed 9, I watched it with a 12yr old boy and even though he didn't get the sub text he enjoyed the animation/story for what... Read more
Published 11 months ago by ADI
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A bit hard to out toghter with other Blue-Ray disc (strange size of box)
Movie wasn't very very intresting (beter said, kinda pridictable)
Nice graphic quality.
Movie wasn't very very intresting (beter said, kinda pridictable)
Nice graphic quality.
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excellent animation about how one person no mater how small (with the help of friends)can change things. Read more
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