Man, this movie was pretty bad. It's just a bunch of repetitive action scenes with no story or purpose...

Man, this movie was pretty bad. It's just a bunch of repetitive action scenes with no story or purpose. The worst thing is that it could've been the start of a new era of theatrical PG 13 animation, yet they botched it

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Unfortunately true. Doubly disappointing considering the art style/aesthetic was great

Yeah, it's kinda hard not to feel disappointed by that one.

It has cool designs, a dark setting, a great setup for suspense and mystery, but it doesn't live up to the potential and it's just an underwhelming movie.

The short was better for that reason. The art, atmosphere, and post apocalyptic mysteriousness were all great. The designs were unique. But they wasted all that on delivering a middling "gutsy young hero saves the world" plot. It was so cliche that you could predict each story beat. It makes me wonder if they realized they had something with great potential but then played it too safe.

I have a genuine soft spot for it because of the atmosphere and visual design, but I barely remember the story. Might just rewatch the trailer and call it good.

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This. You can't just have this sort of imagery in a film with such basic story and characterization. It's too dark for kids, yet too simplistic for older audiences

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I saw this on its opening day expecting a great new original film but I got this instead.

Agreed. I remember every negative beat from the movie, yet it was so forgettable the only thing I remember is that the twins where pretty cute.

any good examples of short films getting adapted into successful features?

These designs deserved to be in a better story. It's like they got so carried away with the visuals that they forgot about having an engaging narrative

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I loved it, but yeah, it could've been much better.

That's what happens when you let artists be writers too. Just look at KSBD.
Shane Acker was the story writer and visual effects and concept artist, and set designer of 9, but most of his record were just visual effects.
Not that the screen writer had much better track record.
The design and idea was pretty good. The execution was not.

Everyone I've ever spoken to about 9 has had more or less the same opinion.
Cool designs.
Weak story.

I honestly rooted for the machines.
Except when they killed 2. I like him because he make cool stuff

The Facebook page for the movie is active. Hopefully that means the sequel is coming out soon.

This movie's dialogue and character interactions are so stilted and basic that they make the prequels look good

If I recall correctly, the facebook page updated shortly after some guy on Youtube made a theory video on the movie where he basically said the film takes place around the time of WWI.

I don't know of any other movie, where writers allowed localization team to change the plot in the dub, just to make it even worse

The scientist was voiced by a guy called Alan Oppenheimer. Good grief, that's a name I would expect someone to come up with when imagining a fictional scientist from that era given that it's basically an amalgamation of Alan Turing and Robert Oppenheimer.

>that fucking arm

Not animated, but District 9 started as a short film and ended up pretty good.

Do they need to be cartoons? If no, Bottle rocket springs to mind.

Else, Beavis and Butthead? Though it was a TV show in between it being a short and it being a movie.

i thought you were fucking with me.
this whole time i thought 9 and district 9 were the same movie.

I don't remember any fookin' prawns in 9.

Frankenweenie was successful critically. Not sure if it really made a profit, though

Somnio, into Infinity Chamber
the Blues Brothers SNL sketches, into the movie

I remember being really excited for it based on the original short but I couldn't even bring myself to finish it. There was a lot of talent in the voice cast too. Damn shame.

I agree OP. The movie did deliver one scene that I felt carried the correct tone, and thats when they're all playing on the record play while "over the rainbow plays". It goes on just long enough to distract you from the fact that theres no way they actually defeated the fabrication machine.

The trailers gave me MASSIVE hype which I feel like the movie fsiled to, deliver due to the fact that the characters themselves feel too much like they are in a children's movie

All these years and I still don't actually understand what the fuck happened in this movie.

The sketches weren't all that great.

>the twins where pretty cute
it's cause they never spoke