I just got back from seeing 9.

The movie's about a little doll thing named 9, who comes to life after the end of human civilization. As he wanders the ruins of human houses and cars, he begins to encounter some other doll things, all of whom are numbered from 1 to 8. The machines that killed off humanity are after the doll things.

The movie is very, very, VERY nicely animated. Think of how Pixar would look if it was run by Tim Burton. But that's pretty much all the movie has going for it.

The story (what we have of it) moves too fast. Not ten minutes after 9 comes to life (the very beginning of the movie), he's off fighting machines and going through incredible dangers for a doll thing he met three minutes ago and yet feels extremely attached to, and already he seems to have developed a strong bond with 5, another doll thing that goes with him on little more than a whim. The ending is very weird--not bad, per se, but a very strange blend of science and the supernatural kinda have you going "WTF"? The soundtrack is boring. The characters warm up to eachother way too fast (did I already mention that?) and none of them are memorable.

Really, the superb animation is the only saving grace of this movie. Without it, all we'd have are a fast yet convoluted story full of bland and uninteresting characters mis-mashed with juvenile morals and what I suspect may be an anti-religious allegory, considering the behavior, setting and even wardrobe of one of the characters (that's just me, though). 4/10.