COMPLETE 9 COVERAGE Chris De Salvo and Morrow McLaughlin battle it out in HE SAID/SHE SAID … 9 De Salvo’s scorecard review of 9 (3/10) McLaughlin’s scorecard review of 9 (9/10)

Excerpt from He Said/She Said ... 9

The animated film 9 isn’t directed by Tim Burton, though he did produce. Shane Acker is behind the PG-13 picture with voice talent Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau and Crispin Glover.

It tells the tale of 9 coming to life to find himself in a post-apocalyptic world where all humans are gone. by chance he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam Earth intent on their extinction.

As always, we recommend that you see the film before reading the He Said/She Said … everything, including plot spoilers and the ending, is fair game to talk about hear. You’ve been warned.

SHE SAID

Nine was phenomenal. The story was creative and thrilling and the film itself was so gorgeous, at times it was like staring at the Northern Lights. The action and suspense came in unrelenting waves, building into a powerful and exciting crescendo: it rocked the party from the tips of its toes to the top of its pointy, post-apocalyptic head and I truly loved every second of it. Morrow has spoken and so it shall be.

HE SAID

Nine was an ambitious attempt to visually wow a particular sort of an audience: One that disregards plot as an essential entity around which to focus a great cinematic story. Before you know it, you’re thrust into an inexplicably desolate setting and offered up a meager slew of characters whose human-instincts are garnered from an unknown source. It feels like new questions arise with each passing onscreen moment, and none of them are answered clearly by film’s end. All suspenseful moments feel gratuitous, and though each are visually stunning, the pointless drivel that ensues strips any meaning from the wildly impressive animation in question. Swell? No, swill.

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