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I wanted to but couldn't!

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

This short was deservedly nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short. There will be spoilers ahead: This short is a glimpse into a ruined world where a doll labeled "9" has to use its wits to survive and try to salvage the souls of its compatriots from a monster. Part of the story is told in a flashback. The short tells the story without dialog but dialog really isn't necessary.There's an incredibly exciting chase and various bits of business come together as setup for later events. The plotting is excellent and the end of the short is great. 9 is a very well developed character and this is a great short. The most impressive part of the short are the visuals. It's just a visually stunning piece of animation. The backgrounds are so detailed and impressive that the short would be worth watching just for those alone.The short was optioned to be turned into a feature film and I can easily see why. This short is an extra on the DVD release of the feature film and is well worth watching. Most highly recommended.

We find ourselves on a post-apocalyptic planet looking similar to the Earth in Wall-E watching strange acts including books and light-bulbs performed by two small rag-dolls. We also see a strange metallic creature, considerably superior in size to the dolls, being on the hunt. It attacks doll#5 and kills it while absorbing its soul right afterward. Doll#9, however, manages to hide successfully and goes on with its experiments. Not much later, the metal predator is out again having its attention focused on another rag-doll. The moment it catches the doll, however, #9 appears in safe distance and we realize the one caught by the predator is not real, but merely a dummy. Furious with being tricked, the giant soul-eater targets #9 and follows him relentlessly through the bleak scenery. Is it all over for our little hero now?I saw this short-film already quite a while ago for the first time and was not impressed at all judging from the rating I gave it. This time it's different and I'm actually even curious to watch the full feature which was made four years after this Oscar-nominated short. It's probably gonna be different as in the short there was no talking at all and the long version features voice-work from Academy Award winners Landau, Connelly and Plummer. The consensus seems generally positive too, so I'm surprised Acker has not done any further work since then, although he has two projects in development, without release date though. Anyway, back to the short film. If creepy animation à la Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty or Coraline is your cup of tea, you should definitely give this one a go.

This is a really fun animation, mostly because it's just so simple of a story very detailed in animation and visually exciting. I mean, for all the complicated methods of the computer animation with great lighting effects and detailed skins and movements of the characters and their effects on the environments, it's a very easy man-vs-monster story that can appeal to everyone.A raggedly named 9, or marked 9, or the ninth raggedly or something to that effect is tragically left alone after its partner 4 sacrifices itself to a monster that steals its soul. 9 devises a way to defeat the monster so that it will no longer torment it, and in the process discovers a way to provide closure to the souls' entrapment (the souls of 1 through 8). This is presented through faction fantasy pretty much existing as never-before-seen.It's very enjoyable and visually amazing. The monster seems almost perfect for the environment they come from, and the characters are very well emotionally presented considering their darned faces. The plot contains no real desire to be stretched into feature length or accepted as important, just presents six minutes of about as much fun as six minutes can give.

This is an excellent short animation. The story is well written and directed. The animation sequences remind me of the first oddworld video game. Not that they have similar stories really, or characters, but the overall look and feel somehow remind me of the world painted in that game. The use of silent characters brings a weight to the action and tension happening on screen. The creature is a mixture of junk found within this world, but seems to hunt with a definite purpose. The ending shows us that purpose, and a quick glimpse into what it might be like to live in this tiny world.Very cool short.