Inspired short in the waters of Burton and the like. Uninspired ending trims the memorability.

Great visuals, but completely hollow.

Short and sweet :)

The full feature of this is going to be epic. This is some of the best animation I've seen.

Pretty cool little flick. Interesting how much the visual style was maintained from the short to the feature.

Great animation, enjoyable action, and wordless. Some of my favorite ingredients in a short.

94

Excellently creative little short, notable for some interesting character and environmental designs and an intriguing plotline. While generally being unique and surprisingly well crafted, hence its future adaptation into a feature length Burton production, the ending does let the short down slightly and seems to completely lack the kind of inspired creativity seen during the rest of the film. That's not to say that 9 leaves you with a bad taste though, it certainly does not. Quite interesting.

Acker creates an original fantasy world setting. One aspect of his technique is also very original: Normally the brows are used in animation to make the characters' eyes expressive, but here the pupils of the characters' eyes (which are actually shutters in lenses) dilate and contract instead. The weak point as usual with animation is that the substance is enslaved to the form. The story shows off the animation but has no other value. I'll probably skip the feature version of this.

Kind of boring, really. The visual style is unique, creative and quite cool, but when a ten-minute short fails to hold my attention, it doesn't speak well to its chances as a feature. I've heard the film doesn't have much of a plot. Considering the short, I can't say that surprises me. I love post-apocalyptic fiction, but this doesn't do much for me.

Awesome short flick. Can't wait to watch the remake of this as well because of the cast and crew.

Pretty cool animation and an interesting idea.

Maybe I should've watched the short before the feature length installment, but by comparison I found this to be little more than a clever set piece.

Highly overrated. Nice visual though.

Very nice short.

Not really bad, but not good either. The movie starts and then it's a serious of "go here, do this" with little background or reason. Sometimes I felt I was watching a video game. It's a pretty movie, for sure, but cliche and mostly forgettable.

Fantastic short.