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0bsessions:
I think 'great' is going too far. The concept is phenomenal, but the execution was lacking and seemed incredibly rushed.

Alex C:
My biggest issue is that most of the dialogue was trenched firmly in the territory of action movie speak. The lines make sense given the context, of course, but the fact that action movies are rarely capable of offering much more than shouted commands, self-conscious irony or awkward platitudes is definitely one of the limitations of the genre and goes a long way towards explaining why I usually give them a pass. Otherwise, I'm fine with a moving feeling like a snapshot, as Katie put it, so I didn't think the movie felt all that rushed until near the end, which admittedly had me fidgeting a bit and ready to leave. I probably have liked it a bit better without some tacked on pseudo-closure.

jodizzle:
It won't be out here until January 21st 2010 :(

I hate everything.

Ikrik:
9 was absolutely the biggest let-down in a long, long time.  There was some beautiful art but also some horrible animation.  It had a good premise but one of the worst written stories in the past year or two.  It had major plot holes too...the kind that really bothered me.

What bothered me quite a bit was the quality of animation.  I know that Pixar is WAY ahead but I thought that the animation studio could have done better.  The fabric of the dolls was almost always out of focus and that started getting to me.  Also the animation quality for anything moving in the background was horrible.  There were a lot of really nice little touches but overrall the animation wasn't stellar.  The setting, however, was.  To see an animation that isn't saturated with bright colours was really nice.  It was dark and gritty enough while still being a kids film.

I thought the premise was really cool and I went in knowing that the story itself was it's weakest point.  But wow it cannot be stated how horribly this film is written.  We only learn about the story twice.  The rest of the film is action.  Now, that sounds really cool but it got quite boring.  The action had no impact because I couldn't connect or care about any of the characters.  The characters aren't even well formed enough to be cliches. 

9 could have been amazing.  It really, really could have.  But they decided to make it a really generic action film instead. 

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