9

Every so often a movie comes out that restores my faith in film making. This is one of them. 9 is an amazing adventure set in the post apocalyptic world of the future. Mankind is all dead and machines rule the Earth.

There are 9 other life-forms though that have to hide because the machines are trying to kill them too. The 9 are machines too, but with something extra. They seem to think and feel. They are lead by 1, who is afraid to go outside and urges everyone to remain hidden. His plan is to wait out the death of the machines just like he waited out the death of humans. 2 doesn’t agree and goes adventuring. He finds 9, just as 9 wakes up. They travel together for a bit and 2 gets taken by a machine.

9 wants to go find him, 1 doesn’t allow it and we have our conflict. Of course 9 will go after 2 and 5 decides to help him. At this point you may be getting confused because they are named numbers and not proper names. But actually this is really brilliant. Each character is totally unique and you can tell them apart instantly, and not only that but I can still remember who is who. My personal fave is 6 (cause he’s the weird one – voiced by crispin glover – which makes him even cooler).

This film is just remarkable in every way. The adventures are amazing, the animation and character design are wicked, and I just loved every second of it!

This has to be one of my top 10 favourite animated movies of all time.

Even the little things, like when 9 finds a spear and takes off the blade and places a light bulb in its place. Favouring technology vs barbarism. The bulb also symbolizes thinking, which is what 9 does. He questions and thinks about things before deciding what to do. 1 just does things out of fear.

You must see this movie.

5/5

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