Spending the time and energy to create and release a non Pixar-ish animated movie these days is quite a gamble. Even with Tim Burton producing, a studio and a watching public, careful with their Saturday movie money, has to think, But are there cute bleeping robots? How about talking cars?
There are no earnest sanitation robots yearning for a significant other or arrogant young sport cars in “9″, directed by Shane Acker and including the voice talents of Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau. Instead we get hand made robots, clothed in burlap, each with a number on their backs, the last of which is number 9, voiced by Elijah Wood.
