Being that it's Toy Story 3 weekend, I figured I would blog once again about animation. This time, the bad. Below I posted that I was on my way to a poker tournament, hence why I blogged about a poker movie. Well, ten minutes into the journey down to the casino, my car overheated and then seized. The poker tournament, as well as seeing Toy Story 3 today, is now in jeopardy. These recent developments have me feeling incredibly disappointed. Kind of like when I saw the movie 9. Now this isn't the movie Nine that was a musical with Penelope Cruz and Daniel Day-Lewis. This is the movie 9 which features an all star voice cast (Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly, others) and an intriguing storyline. Some of the producers have worked on films such as Wanted and Sleepy Hollow and the animation in the previews looked incredible. Well, that's about all that was incredible. For 80 odd minutes though, 9 was one of the most dull, slow-moving, and poorly woven stories I've seen in animated form.
Supposedly all of humanity is gone. Right before this calamity, a scientist/inventor type figured out how to transfer his soul into nine rag dolls. These dolls come to life in a post-human world and must go on an adventure. It sounds weird enough to be good, but it just isn't. While the animation is good, the story is so bland that after ten minutes you'll be ready to turn this movie off and pop in a Pixar flick. This is one film that may have benefited from being in 3D (it wasn't) just to give some sort of visceral moments. All in all, I would give 9 a 3 out of 10.
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