Synopsis
When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their extinction. Despite being the neophyte of the group, 9 convinces the others that hiding will do them no good.
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Cast
- Elijah Wood9 (voice)
- Jennifer Connelly7 (voice)
- Crispin Glover6 (voice)
- Christopher Plummer1 (voice)
- Martin Landau2 (voice)
- John C. Reilly5 (voice)
- Fred Tatasciore8 (voice) / Radio Announcer (voice)
- Alan OppenheimerScientist (voice)
- Tom KaneDictator (voice)
- Helen WilsonNewscaster (voice)
Recommendations
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Boston Globe
Any optimism in 9, which is bound to try the fortitude of meeker children, feels hard-won. It actually ends in a bittersweet mystery. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
Storyboarded with precision, and enhanced with a resonant score by Deborah Lurie, Acker’s handsome, feature-length 9 is, for all its visual flights of fancy, grounded in an apocalypse-proof message graspable by any schoolchild. - 75
ReelViews
This is post-apocalyptic adventure as imagined for a teen crowd, and what it lacks in depth it makes up for in action. With a slight running time of 80 minutes, 9 doesn't contain an ounce of fat on its animated bones. - 75
Baltimore Sun
Not a perfect 10, but its imperfection is what makes it gripping and bewitching. - 75
New York Post
IF you ask me, Shane Acker's post-apocalyp tic animated film 9 is better than the live-ac tion flick "District 9." Beyond their similar titles, these sci-fi social commentaries are both expanded from shorts under the sponsorship of a world-class director. - 63
Miami Herald
The film isn't particularly original, but its dark mood, end-of-times landscape and unique characters will seem fresher to the young audience for which it's aiming than to jaded sci-fi veterans. - 60
Variety
Design aspects are arresting and the filmmaker's abilities are obvious, but the basic survival story remains slight, just as the general setting, no matter how artfully imagined, is by now pretty familiar. - 60
Village Voice
The result is never as gripping in narrative terms--a well-worn litany of dystopian-future chestnuts--as it is visually.
