I love this movie so much

Disappointment for a huge fan!

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

An interesting film based on an award winning college short, in this the world was destroyed in the 1930's (thinly veiled blaming of Hitler) after a scientist creates a fantastic machine that can create anything. This leads to a robot revolution, all kinds of nasty warfare and the end of humanity. But the scientist had foresight, and created 9 stitchpunks, who's mission is to revive the earth. An interesting an different little film with some beautiful animation, it's well worth seeing.

"9 is not a casual film. This isn't the kind of movie where you invite a bunch of friends over, expecting an ""awesome"" movie. That's not to say it's a bad movie, it's quite good in fact. It's just not a typical film. It's bleak, it's eerie, and even the action, though strong, has a lot of symbolic meaning. I don't often watch films like 9, nor do I want to. 9 offers only a few smiles, and no laughs. Rule #1 for me, it has to have humor. I don't mind serious films, but a little humor can go a long way in helping me remember the film, and enjoy it. 9 manages to entertain without laughs. But 9 has a lot of emotion anyway. Fear certainly comes to mind, as does sadness. The PG-13 rating was not earned from language or sexual content. Part of it comes from the bloodless, yet intense violence. The more protruding part comes from the darkness. Despite it's limited inappropriate content, this is not a film for kids. It's dark themes may even challenge older ones. The story isn't all that sophisticated, to be honest. And there's more than a few cliches. There are plot points we've seen before, and characters that may evoke a sense of deja vu. But that's okay, because the movie is strong. The animation is incredible. The musical score, though a little run of the mill, is appropriately creepy, and it knows when to keep quiet. The voice cast is filled with stars that shine, but don't distract. Of course, you didn't come to see any of that. Depending on who you are, you came for one of two things; an intellectual film, and thought provoking themes, or epic machine vs. rag doll fights. If action is what you came for, you shouldn't be disappointed. There are plenty of, I shouldn't say duels, but fights between the stitch dolls, and the mechanical beasts. This film is not made up of action throughout, so teens coming ONLY for the action will surely be disappointed, but there's enough action to thrill and excite. If you came for intellectual stimulation, you will have to wait for after the film to enjoy that bit. During the movie, you will have to do little thinking. This is the kind of flick that inspires conversation after viewing. As the film runs, you simply have to sit back and enjoy. 9 is a wonderful movie. It's by no means, one for the ages, but it's a thought-provoking, heart pounding little flick, that can surely be enjoyed by any one who wants to try something, a little new."

Visually it's nothing special, but it's not bad either. But story is lousy... Boring, confusing, without emotion... waste of time.4/10(6/10 for the animation and 2/10 for the story)

'9' is a movie that I would regard as one of my favourite animated movies - even in the 20-10 area of my favourite movies overall.The film sees a ragdoll, named 9 and voiced by Elijah Wood in his second best roll second only to Frodo in LOTR, learn and discover a world that he has just entered and is meant to save. This being a movie, of course he achieves this goal; twice in fact. And that is where my one flaw of the movie comes from.If you've watched the movie you will know that the first of the other ragdolls 9 meets, 2, kidnapped by a cat like robot named 'The beast' in the very beginning after providing 9 with a voice box and giving just enough exposition to keep the viewer interested. This leads to 9 finding the other ragdolls and trying to convince them to save 2. One of them, 5, joins him in this venture and they are successful, with help from another ragdoll who abandoned the afters to have the freedom she wanted, 7, in saving two. The beast killed in the process and this is when the world is saved the first. However, there is still about an hour to the films run time at this point so we need a plot device to create a conflict; and this is when 9 clumsily does what the beast was trying to do in reawakening the machine that brought the land to be in a ruined stated. I can easily, and without regret, turn the film off just after the beast is killed and just before 9 does this as I have already gotten a happy ending. Everyone is safe from the beast and the ragdolls can do whatever they want without fear.The rest of movie is good, filled with more action and more visuals, but with a point in the film which makes it easy to turn off, the movie loses two points out of ten. Two points are deducted because of the extra content you loose by turning off the film when 2 is saved; if you turn it off that is (which I have done on one occasion).