Steineded How sad is this?

Crwthod A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Delia99 This short film tells us the story of 9, a ragdoll-ish, stitchpunk- ish... thing, 9, who leaves in an aftertheend-ish, apocalyptic-ish world... and is all alone because all of his friends have died. On his own, he sets on a quest to murder the beast who slayed them - and even though he gets the soul-draining talisman, they still DON'T get revived. Kind of justified, the cat beast rips their bodies off. Like, he has a cloak made of their skins, which actually is pretty terrifying. No dialogue in this one. After all, most of the time, 9 is all alone and has no one to speak to. Speaking to himself isn't an option, this short isn't about psychopathy. Though we get a glimpse of original!5, who would get split up in 2 and 5 in the feature film.Although this short is in a way, sadder than the film (in here, all of them but 9 are posthumous characters, and in the end, 9 is left alone, whereas in the film, he has company), but for some reason the ending seemed to be... lighter. Perhaps because in the movie, he had actually met all the deceased stitchpunks, and had grown to care for them, when here, he only knew 5 (for like, one minute) and there's no indication he knew any of the other stitchpunks. Still, an entertaining short film I enjoyed.

bob the moo I was planning on watching the movie 9 recently until someone pointed out it was an expanded version of a short film that I'd not seen, which made me want to watch the short film in the extras and then leave it a while before watching the more recent version. I probably made the right call on that since the original was made on a much more limited budget to say the least and is much simpler and smaller – so seeing it after a full version may have worked against it. Anyway, what I found was a short film that does what a short film is meant to do – engage and deliver quickly.The plot is not really explained – or at least the background to the world and characters anyways. Instead we are thrown into the middle of it as one ragdoll character has its soul captured by some sort of mechanical creature; this leaves doll #9 to either survive it, kill it or die trying. The short is as simple as that and, in the absence of detail and plot to engage, it is all about atmosphere and feeling. These are almost harder than the visual aspect to create but Acker gets it right, producing a very dark feeling film that engages because of its Gothic feel and dark air. Visually the film works very well even if the limited resources do show. The animation is smooth, the creatures have character and presences with only the slightest touch and the wider world is interesting.Overall this was an enjoyable and dark short film that worked off atmosphere and visual creativity. I will be interested to see if an expansion and additions of characters, voices etc make it a better experience or if it dilutes the simple short too much across a longer running time.

tavm Just watched this-Shane Acker's original short version of the now released feature version of 9. The title character is-as many commentators have mentioned-a rag doll who's on the run from a large creature that just killed a fellow worker with some light bulb gadget. The computer animation is pretty exciting with the chase and I can see why it was nominated for an Academy Award. But I guess because it was so short and there weren't too many details of why all this was happening made me a little unsatisfied with this animated short. In other words, I wanted this to be a little longer. So it's with that being said that I hope the feature version of 9 becomes a much more enjoyable experience than what I saw here...

moviewizguy A rag doll fights a monster that has been stealing the souls of his people.I saw this on you tube. Having a running time for about 10 minutes, I decided to watch this film and you know what? It was actually a fantastic and brilliant kind of "short" film. The animation is fantastic and original-looking and what I love about this film is that it's not afraid to be a dark animated film. There are some moments in here where it might be truly frightening for a child.More on animation: It looked fresh, original, and gritty. I loved it! Another great thing is that this film has NO (ZERO) - NADA - dialog but yet it still pulls off for great character development through the actions of the characters! This is just an animated film with a simple plot done in an extraordinary way. The look is fantastic and I'm sure Shane Acker will be a great animator when he makes more of these types of films. So if you have ten minutes to kill, go to you tube right now and search up "9".