As much as I wanted to, I really didn't like
9 (not to be confused with either
District 9 or the Fellini remake
Nine [November 2009, y'all!])...
[I'll try to keep spoilers to a minimum, but you've been warned. 
]The story doesn't really hold together and a lot of stuff didn't add up. The relationship between the little numbered doll people, the evil AI (that becomes self aware and... well, you can prolly guess where this is going...) and the human scientists that created them both wasn't very well thought out. It's apparently the film expansion of a short subject, so maybe that explains some things, but still...
The voice actors didn't so much become the characters as much as just lend their voices. Does that make sense?
And it isn't for kids, period. It's a lot darker than the apocalypse that befell Earth in
WALL?E and there are some rough moments of machines decimating people. There were a few groups of parents in the theatre when we got there, but as soon as
a parent leaves with their kids. When 9 discovers
another set gets up to leave. And these last 2 scenes are maybe 5-8 minutes in...
Unless you've got a really mature kid, you might wanna pass on this one...
And it almost seemed like they got Tim Burton and Danny Elfman just to lend their names to the thing. Burton is just exec-producing (he's busy with Alice) and Elfman came up with the 'themes' and someone else composed the score. So they aren't quite as involved as the filmmakers are trying to imply.
The visuals are decent, but even they get a little tedious when the entire world is a smoking crater and everything's wrapped in burlap.
Not that it's a complete piece of poo or anything, it's just very unsatisfying...
