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This film has grown a bit of a following, so how come so many people both remember it and don't remember it at the same time? Nostalgia Critic takes a look at why this film is so forgettably unforgettable. Let's take a look at Shane Acker's, 9.
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9 is a 2009 computer-animated post-apocalyptic action film directed by Shane Acker, written by Pamela Pettler and produced by Jim Lemley, Tim Burton, Timur Bekmambetov and Dana Ginsburg. The film stars the voice of Elijah Wood as a small ragdoll-like robot who awakens shortly after the end of mankind, and must find eight other robots to figure out the mystery behind humanity's destruction while tangling with the vicious creations of a massive soul-stealing machine, alongside other voices of John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer, Crispin Glover with Martin Landau and Fred Tatasciore.
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@DALYN SNELL what's SU?
@LexRam Studios oh god the SU flashbacks
yes
I remember seeing this when it came out, but remember it being boring and forgettable, but after seeing this review. I can say maybe it is worth a 2nd watch and see the deeper meaning to it.
*It was good'nt.*
This movie much better than captain marvel
They look like minions!
I like the movie 9
I was 10 when this came out, and it was my inspiration to pick up a pen and start writing. Now I'm an english major and literature is beyond my passion. I have a soft spot for it.
Great movie. One of the best animation movies.
This movie well predict what will happen to humanity
Covid or machines coming to life to kill us all?
Does anybody else want to see a *First Viewing* of this film? Love to be Rob's reaction to it.
It came out on my 18th birthday.
This movie is so criminally underrated.
Hey! You watched this with Phantomstrider!
I feel like this would've been a better video game than a movie.
Yess
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I'm honestly shocked I thought he would rip into this like he does with some other movies but he didn't all in all though i just re watched this move a few days ago cause i have the DVD still from when it came out on DVD and i still love it all and i agree with the Nostalgia critic on this one to bout certain things
Have fond memories of this movie. Childhood vacation, spider-baby came on screen at some hotel. The feeling of being so unnerved is so much fun.
I remember watching this on Netflix one time. I'm a sucker for robot movies but as a whole having watched it I really liked it
Quick thought, you think Regular Show would work for Freakshow Cinema or WTR?
Lmao
Meep
Now this is classic nostalgia critic No annoying skits or unfunny jokes that overstay their welcome just a straight up review
I liked the movie. For me, this is what I saw the stitchpunks as representatives of: 1. Regret/ self-recrimination 2. Curiosity/the pure science-minded inventor 3 & 4. The introvert/subconscious archive of pre-war knowledge 5. Fear/self-preservation 6. Humanity, the last connection to a species that he himself had a hand in obliterating, thus going slightly insane 7. Courage/the need to correct the mistake 8. The scientist's actual world-changing capabilities/following orders 9. Hope/doing the right thing
Вы тоже пришли сюда, чтобы заткнуться о русском дублеже и его отличии от остальных?
0:34 *VALKENHEISER!!! THERE YOU ARE!!!*
So let me get this straight. It's a post apocalyptic world in which smoke belching machines poison humanity and the earth, has a dingy, unappealing color palate. Wtf were you expecting? Yes, there's gonna be a lot of brown and "piss" yellow, it's a war torn wasteland.
It looks better than the Fallout games
2008: AMget - 1 ad beginning of videp 2012: youtube- 2 ads beginning of video 2014: youtube red = no ads 2016: forced ads by the content creator even though I pay for red to get no ads...
9 sure is a dark film out of every other dark kids film
Russian version has a different ending and it's beautiful. The toys actually represent the people in scientist's life and it makes so much more sense, because the dolls act exactly how those people would act. I can tell you the details if you choose to reply.
5:36 didn't monster house come out in 2006 3 years before 9
I remember being the apocalypse is it we’re ran by sids toys- NC 2020
2:33 might be one of my favourite NC cutaway jokes EVER.
I AM SCARED OF THIS MOVIE IT SCARY
I think if the cloth the characters were made from had vibrant colors on them it would have helped in the brown department. Maybe even show them as this bright spot in this dreary world. This tiny speck of hope in all the misery.
9 is that one movie you forget about until someone mentions it, and then when you watch it you forget about it after 2 days, just thinking it was a weird dream PS: the whole movie is a accurate representation of DarkRP on gmod when all of the admins and mods leave
I watched this when I was like 10 or 11. like when I watched Coraline at like 8 or 9. I regret my past decisions. also, that's weird. what I remember is: the numbers, the reasons for the apocalypse, pieces of the ending and the dead bodies. oh and also why they existed. (tho I forgot part of the reasons of the smaller monsters existing). that's quite opposite to a lot of people it seems.
I was obsessed with this movie when it came out, I was only 10 but loved dark creepy movies such as corpse bride and nightmare before Christmas
When people know Movies that Tim Burton was working/making/in they never include 9. People who don’t add 9 are pretty dumb
Will there ever be a sequel to 9?
Yes. In 2999
i think 9 works very well as an opener for a high school philosophy course
This was how sack boy was created
And yes please do big trouble in little china!
I have to recommend you review Mirrormask, it was made by the same team who made The Labyrinth, and is like the dark crystal’s weirder and creepier cousin. And that’s really saying something
I recall there being a website for the film leading up to it's release, which incrementally told the story of the scientist, his work, how he started working for the regime, how he was betrayed, and his notes on creating the dolls.
This movie and genre are my childhood
"Oh, I thought that ad was going to be an hour and twenty minutes long" So did I Doug.
Drunk Batman Doug is a fascinating character
it actually depresses me to see that this movie is now old enough to be on this channel
It's so surreal to see this episode actually exist. I've been wishing for NC to review this film since it came out in 09 and it all became a faraway memory of a kid's dream until I came across it today.
This movie was so good and so sad!!!
I only like the twins. And me and my bro were totally not traumatized at the ages of 8 and 9 after watching this 😅
I always remember the short film it was based off. How it ends in an even bigger tragedy than the movie. I also think of how interesting it is just to watch it.
God I hated this movie. There was just no point to it. A bunch of rag-dolls get activated and their mission ends up just being shutting down a machine that they activated. What was the point of that? It just seems like the characters had nothing worthwhile to do.
There are many comments about Russians trying to explain their version of "9" (2009). Here is the primary differences; American Version (Made by Shane Acker) = The 9 Stitchpunks are all pieces of the Scientist's soul and represent different parts of his personality. The Scientist used alchemy to create the Talisman. Russian Version (Written by Dmitry Glukhovsky by the direction of Timur Bekmambetov because he thought he understood the message of the film "better") = The 9 Stitchpunks are personifications of 9 different people (1 - Chancellor, 2 - Scientist's assistant, 3 & 4 - Scientist's kids, 5 - doctor, 6 - an engineer who started the Fabrication Machine, 7 - Scientist's wife, 8 - leader's bodyguard, 9 - the scientist). The Scientist never practiced alchemy but found an ancient alchemic artifact called a "Device". I am not Russian nor know Russian. I watched the Russian version and it is very different from the original American version. I used these comments and the Russian Wikipedia page for the info for the Russian version. So which version is better? I think both are good interpretations of the visuals. I honestly will side with the original American version for one reason. Shane Acker created this property with his short-film in 2005 and this film was his directorial debut. This film is HIS vision not some Russians that believe they can make it "better".
I Completed forgot this movie...
One thing I never got about the movie is if the dolls are pieces of the scientist's soul, why is 7 female?
The 5 notes playing in this video over and over and over is a little bit onenoted, too 🥴
I still LOVE the shit out of this movie. Yeah the story was too short, but the art, voice acting, and entire atmosphere is BEAUTIFUL. I can't get enough of it, and I wish they had a sequel explaining more.
I've been obsessed with 9 since before it came out, and it's endured as one of my favorite movies throughout the years. I have the German art book (after years of scouring the internet for it), the action figures, and 2 of the 3 released shirts. And I think I glommed onto it for the same reasons you say you're liking it now, in fact. The details are so intriguing and precise, the lore runs really deep while still being open for interpretation, and the characters are charming enough. There was so much left unsaid that my brain never stopped filling in the details, and I have... an embarrassing amount of fan fiction and fan art for it. It's such a good concept, and has enough rules to establish a very unique universe, while being open enough for imagination to fill in the gaps. I really appreciate your review of it! While, of course, I'm sad you don't love it as much as I do, you make really good points about it! You put into words some things I wasn't able to quite voice, even after 11 years. I really wanted you to review this back when it was newer, but I'm pretty glad you waited to review it, because I really prefer your long-term perspective on it. Such interesting insight with how your perception of it changed. Thanks for sharing!
I saw this movie when it came out but it feels like a fever dream
Can you do more freak show cinema
Loved this movie when I first saw the trailers, now years later I learn that there's so much more out there to see. This movie seems to be like New Vegas, years later we find new things to appreciate about it.
I really liked this movie but they didn't go into the story well enough
Oh 9 that movie well that was a NIGHTMARE BUT it wasn't bad it was good but A HORROR MOVIE
Funny tho. I felt exactly the same way. I only saw the film once, but I remembered it very positively. Definitly worth a rewatch. This is one of those few films that I would put in the category (cartoons for adults). Similar to Felidae, Watership Down, Plague Dogs, The Iron Giant ... Why? Because 9 is simply different, has dared to do something, something quite unique. And I admire that and I think these dolls are unjustly forgotten.
RIP Christopher Plumber... your brilliant acting will be forgotten.
Oh, my child trauma's origin)
If i remember correctly, the ragdolls are canonically known as *stitchpunk*, or something along those lines
Посмотри русскую версию.
Doug, I understand that you may feel weather-worn by having to look at a dirty landscape, but the thing that everybody who complains that a landscape in gritty realism is 'too brown' need to realize is that it's a warzone, the aftermath of a fair deal of destruction. You can't complain that a wasteland looks like a wasteland. They're not pretty, by nature. You ask any histortian about trench warfare in World War One, you learn that it was all about dirt, smoke, and a generally-destroyed landscape. If the realism is too brown, that means it really does capture the bleakness of war. I'm sorry, but it's necessary. It would be like me - a Fallout fan - complaining about the constant radiation.
13:17 You missed the detail when the Scientist is taken away from the Machine by the soldiers. The machine reaches out to him and freaks out like a kid being separated from their parent. The Machine was given free will and ability to think for itself, when it was treated like a mindless tool of war, it decided to wipe out humans because it believed they were cruel and not worthy of life. Then it wiped out everything else because of the pain it went through. They don't show all of it in the movie, but the details are there.
Wow Did not expect that kind of review But thanks for going through my Favorite Movie I've seen You really found meanings what my other aquatintces didn't see Thanks Mr Critic👍
Essentially this movie was "LittlebigPlanet meets The Terminator and needs to see a therapist cause they are really fucking depressed"
goddamit these commercials are so goooood
This would have been cool as a video game...
Year of the Prank Piece of Fuckles!
Things I remembered about this movie: Dead baby in the beginning Crispin Glover was in it 3d was scary I forgot about the plot or anything else
I remember this movie freaking me out cause they show the soulless corpses.
Please review "Mermaids the Body Found" and "Dragons a fantasy made real"
Please talk about Monster House! It's such a, imo, underrated horror movie for kids
Actually the souls of the dolls reanimated the scientist
So it's a movie if Christopher Nolan got drunk and wrote deep ideas with shitty writing FUCKING SOLD
I just saw it tonight, per your suggestion, and I thought it was an entertaining film. I am a sucker when it comes to unique animation (stop motion and the like), so I had a fun time with 9.
А ведь я действительно помню об этом фильме ровно тоже самое...
By the way, does anybody remember that french movie? The Suicide shop?
I liked this movie when I first saw it and hoped for a sequel. Not to mention that song they used in the trailer.
I love this film, it was the first film to teach me that animated films don't necessarily have to be childish. It aloud for a story I'd not seen before, cool action moments I would get more of an emotional response out of as I grew older and my god, the music is so god damn phenomenal!
I remember this movie came out right around Little Big Planet, and I have vivid memories thinking this movie would be good. It wasn't. But some weird fantasy in the front row got real into it and started shouting responses back, in a full theater, and I'm almost positive we were all happier for his input in the end lol
Probably the film turned out to be controversial, because the meaning of the cartoon in the Russian and English versions is different
I am almost positive that Monster House precedes Coraline
1:55 Never seen the movie but this image interests me. It's three symbols あ L Ω the first is Hiragana "A" 2nd is cursive L and last is omega. A is obviously the 1st letter of the alphabet. (In all three languages.) And omega is the last. It also brings to mind the phrase "alpha and omega" which means beginning and end, the book ends of all language, that which encompasses all, it's also a name for God. It gets more interesting when you realize that L is right in the center of the alphabet. So it becomes beginning middle and end. And then around those three characters is ○ or null. The only thing outside the domain of alpha to omega is nothing. All of this forms a frowning face, the full significance of this, I don't know.
This means more than you think, just mix Harry Potter with Matrix, and you will have some idea... Hopefully!
Lol; 9 isn't creepy or freaky in anyway
The film 9 was ment as a warning.
It’s a great movie.
This is ligit my favorite movie of all time.
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I remember this movie, I kinda liked it as a kid, and interesting universe and an uncertain future.
Weird to think that this Toy Story knockoff also kind of did Inside Out 10 years before Inside Out came out.
This is one of my family's favorite films! With films like this one, it gives the audience ideas on how, what, and why this happened in the film
"They remember it and don't remember it at the same time" You just described my feelings about it, man :)
I actually found the main fabricator machine to be surprisingly expressive with it's movements and mannerisms as opposed to it's face(?) eye(?) thing, the precise movements as it builds the hypno snake thing, almost like you can see it's thought process forming as it builds it, and how when it sees one of it's creations, I think it was the doglike one, destroyed it gets noticeably upset.