Ragged?

9 (2009)

Shane Acker converts his own animated short to a full length film with voice talent from Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly and Christopher Plumber. In a post apocalyptic world a scientist creates nine mechanical rag dolls to fight the last machine that survived the war against the humans.

This is a pretty short film coming in at only 79 minutes and it does feel like there is some padding in the middle to stretch it out so it is not hard to tell that this is an extension of an originally shorter work. Like many stories this film is about the nature of man kind and apart from the aforementioned problem it is a really well imagined and executed effort. The vision for the world is great and you can see why Tim Burton got involved. There is a sad undertone to the film and the ending is really good in my opinion.

4/5 not with out it's flaws but a good first effort from the director.