Audience left wondering at '9'
Shannon McEvoy
Issue date: 10/7/09 Section: Entertainment
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It's rated PG-13 for the graphic dark mood throughout the whole film and the violence. Though the movie has an RPG game like series of events, as 9 (voiced by Elijah Wood) leads the group to survival against a foe that seems too big for them to defeat. There isn't much back-story on the characters themselves, and no one really knows how or why they were created. Most of the back-story on all the characters is the same though each has a different personality, partly from the scientist who created them and a different soul.
They are numbered 1 through 9, for the order in which they were made. Even though 1 was made first, he believes that he is the leader and does everything to help the ragdolls survive; but he is ignorant about the real dangers of the world, hiding instead of finding a way to solve the problem. 9, however, wants to learn and achieve the goals the scientist set for him, which includes defeating the giant soul-eating robot. Then you have your back characters, 2 through 8 who play the sidekicks, the rebels and the wise. Ackers does include all the social types as a message to the world around us.
At the end of the movie, you are still left wondering what happened to everything. How do they rebuild a world that's so huge and they can't clean up anything, being small and all? How do they even reproduce? Tim Burton should have helped Shane Ackers with the film. There is not a whole lot of depth to the characters and background. Even though the short film of the same name was nominated for the Academy Award, this movie needed more. Something was just missing in it, even though it had a full cast of voices (from Elijah Wood to Jennifer Connelly to John C. Reilly) who did a great job getting the emotion and power of the characters behind the voice, there was just something missing. Maybe if it was a little longer, I would have liked it more.
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