The movie 9

[HaRuMaN]

(The animated ragdoll movie, not District 9)

So I watched this other night on Blu-ray...

Visuals were great, but I felt the plot was extremely lacking.  Was very disappointed in this one.  With some more plot development, I thought this could have been a very good movie.

2/5 stars for me.

[SavannahLion]

Ditto

I saw the movie recently and felt the visuals were superb but felt the overall plot development severely lacking. It was basically a movie where some guy goes, "hey, what if these rag dolls came to life?" And then... not much else. It had the potential to explore so many aspects with which it would have opened up an opportunity for a franchise.

It's a forgettable film.

If you want a ragdoll come to life story, go play Little Big Planet. That's interactive.

[shmokes]

It was AWFUL.  So bad.  The quality of the story and dialog was literally indistinguishable from a bad saturday morning cartoon.  Seriously . . . I was sitting in the theater and about 15 minutes before the movie ended (though I didn't know at the time how close it was to the end) I thought to myself, "WTF is this movie about?"  At that point, had somebody asked me in general what the movie was about I couldn't have told them.  All I'd be able to do is relate a serious of vaguely connected events and characters behaving in nonsensical ways.  I went to it with a friend and I have never lived it down.  Also he movie was misleadingly advertised as a Tim Burton movie when in reality he had virtually nothing to do with it.

[HanoiBoi]

We have it, but haven't yet checked it out.  It kinda looks like a Tool music video meets sock monkeys.  No?

Any good for kids though??

[SNAAKE]

It was AWFUL.  So bad.  The quality of the story and dialog was literally indistinguishable from a bad saturday morning cartoon.  Seriously . . . I was sitting in the theater and about 15 minutes before the movie ended (though I didn't know at the time how close it was to the end) I thought to myself, "WTF is this movie about?"  At that point, had somebody asked me in general what the movie was about I couldn't have told them.  All I'd be able to do is relate a serious of vaguely connected events and characters behaving in nonsensical ways.  I went to it with a friend and I have never lived it down.  Also he movie was misleadingly advertised as a Tim Burton movie when in reality he had virtually nothing to do with it.

thats why you check reviews online first. I thought it was pretty bad. at least it was short.

astroboy was kinda lame too. watchable at best. I think last year's best animation is cloudy with a chance of meatball. awesome in 3d and 2d. of course its never the same experience but looks really good on bluray.

[shmokes]

Coraline for sure.  Cloudy was good, but can't touch Coraline.  Secret of Kells looks like good stuff too.

[shardian]

9 is what happens when someone writes a 10 line synopsis for a video game plotline, then some genius scraps the video game and says make a movie instead with the same 10 lines as the entire script.

Would have been an frikking awesome original vid game. It was massive fail as a movie. The babydoll/caterpillar/body snatcher thing creeped the hell out of me.