by Christina Hurley
Some people are saying that Tim Burton’s newest movie was a complete waste of time. The new movie ‘9’ was released on 9-9-09 and it was directed by a man named Shane Acker and produced by the well-known Tim Burton. This movie came to being because of a short film created by Acker that was a huge hit on YouTube; that little 10 minutes and 38 seconds had almost 500,000 views. A lot of critics are saying that Burton should have declined the offer from Acker, because this movie was nothing but a complete flop and should have remained only 10 minutes and 38 seconds.
The plot to the movie was very unclear and scattered. It begins with the main character 9 waking up in the laboratory with the professor dead on the floor. You soon find out that the professor created a machine that was an artificially intelligent B.R.A.I.N (Binary Reactive Artificially Intelligent Neurocircuit), and was intended to 
help the failing economy and the post-apocalyptic world. In the wrong hands of the Chancellor, the artificialbrain is put to the test of making weapons for war. It ends up breaking under the stress and turning against humanity. When 9 wakes up, all of humanity is already destroyed and the world is a completely dry wasteland. This B.R.A.I.N. sets out to kill every living thing including all the little ‘stitchpunks’ including 9 himself.
The entire plot of this movie is the struggle of the (1 through 9) little 5 inch dolls running around trying to destroy this B.R.A.I.N. and all of its huge cat-like beasts. 9 is the only one who really wants to find out why he was created and for what reason. He sets out to the ‘1st room’ to find a little box that the professor left for him, which ends up giving him all the answers on how to destroy the B.R.A.I.N.
Still, a lot of people enjoyed the movie and called it brilliant for the demonic post-apocalyptic feel of the movie. This was a really different turn for Disney where a normal monster would only terrify the characters and not kill them, and was even rated PG-13 for all the grueling sights including the dead bodies still left behind in cars. In the end the movie was left with a rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars and was not recommended for small children.
