It is a 3D animated film by Focus Features (not Dreamworks, Pixar or Disney), based on a short published in 2005 by a fellow named Shane Acker. You can watch the short here, it's beautifully made and very clever.
Now, that short got nominated for a bunch of awards, including an Oscar, won a few and caught the attention of Tim Burton and Timur Bakmembetov, who, I gather, took Acker away on their big boat made of money so he could make a full-length film from the same idea.
As for the film itself, well, you know how in Terminator we invented robots and the robots looked at us and went "Oh, fuck that," and tried to murder everybody and then there was a big war? Well, 9 is that, except that the robots won. We, the humans, we're all gone, along with everything we built and everything we shared the planet with. The only living creatures left are...ragdolls. Teeny tiny little partly-robotic ragdolls with numbers on their backs who inherited a ruined world and a load of nasty robots who hunger for their souls.
If that doesn't sound incredibly awesome: a) what the hell is wrong with you b) here is a trailer.
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Date: 2009-05-21 03:06 am (UTC)Now, that short got nominated for a bunch of awards, including an Oscar, won a few and caught the attention of Tim Burton and Timur Bakmembetov, who, I gather, took Acker away on their big boat made of money so he could make a full-length film from the same idea.
As for the film itself, well, you know how in Terminator we invented robots and the robots looked at us and went "Oh, fuck that," and tried to murder everybody and then there was a big war? Well, 9 is that, except that the robots won. We, the humans, we're all gone, along with everything we built and everything we shared the planet with. The only living creatures left are...ragdolls. Teeny tiny little partly-robotic ragdolls with numbers on their backs who inherited a ruined world and a load of nasty robots who hunger for their souls.
If that doesn't sound incredibly awesome: a) what the hell is wrong with you b) here is a trailer.