Shane Acker was one of the special effect wizards at WETA before this movie, and his digital animation background shows. The stitchpunks chase and are chased, they fight and fly through the landscape with flair, but there’s not a lot of substance to go with the style. Shane Acker’s Oscar-nominated short film, 9 is the story of nine little clockwork ‘stitchpunk’ dolls who are the only remnants of life on earth after a catastrophic war between humans and machines. They struggle to find their place in the new world while trying to learn about where they come from and what happened to make the world the way it is. The movie lacks in story and dialogue it makes up for in some delirious action sequences. Acker knows that he faces an uphill battle trying to get audiences to relate to his abstract characters with their numerical monikers. This goes into account the genre. It is a animation movie however this specific animation movie is not geared towards younger children. The affects of this could cause low attendance rate within the audience. You can tell that number is of great importance within this movie. The screen writer says that characters are abstract. The humanistic features add the touch of humanity to the dolls.
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