Zombie Fridays--9

[amberfocus]

Yeah, yeah, I know it isn't Friday.  And it isn't actually a zombie movie either this week, but after several weeks out of it, I wanted to get back to it.  Let's just call it postapocalyptic Saturday than, shall we?

I'm not really a big fan of Tim Burton.  I liked Beetlejuice and I liked Edward Scissorhands, but after that it just got weird.  9 changes things.  9 is a beautifully done movie of hope and survival after a war between the humans and their robotic machines that turn on them.  One man imbues 9 tiny little robots that look like dolls made out of burlap with bits of his soul, charging the final one, 9, to save the world and in the process save part of humanity.  Which they basically do.  In a sort of almost steampunk way.

Netflix's summary was a little LOL-worthy:

In a postapocalyptic world, a small community of rag-doll robots hides in fear from dangerous machines out to exterminate them.  But when a brave newcomer named 9 joins the group, he ispires them to stand up and fight for their survival.

Seriously, if I hadn't watched the trailer first I probably would not have been inspired by the summary to pick it out.  And the best part of the trailer is the second half.  But I'm glad I saw the trailer because it showed how visually stunning this movie is.  I wasn't ever actually afraid of the bad machine, except when I went, "Oh, Terminator."  I kept getting distracted by 1, played by Christopher Plummer, thinking he both sounded like and looked like a tall version of Rigel from Farscape.  Elijah Wood played one of the heroes, 9. and Jennifer Connelly played the herione 7.

I don't know, it was really kind of a weird thing, but I would definitely rec it on side of movies of awesome as opposed to dropping it down the movies of fail slot.  I think they needed to give a bit more time to establishing the plot.  But all in all, a very good movie tonight.  And the animation (which I hesitate to call it that for it looks much more realistic than just animation, it might be that stop motion stuff) is supurb, visiually stunning, really.  The score was fantastic, too.

And as a mother I'd have no problem letting my kids watch this one.  They are almost 15 and 11.  I don't think a child of seven or eight is ready to handle some of the "deaths" that occur.  Or some of the freaky bits with the evil machines coming to life and popping around corners to startle you.

Not much of a review, was that?  Oh, well.  My brain still isn't running on all 8 hamsters yet.

Comments

[irishlullaby.livejournal.com]

I LOVED this movie when I first saw it in theater. I have yet to get it on DVD yet though because apparently stores don't like it around here :(

May have to get the other half to get it off amazon