9
Director: Shane Acker
Year Released: 2009
Rating: 2.0
A sock-puppet finds himself in a dreary, post-Human world, discovers other animated sock-puppets just like him (he's the ninth out of a series) and mistakenly activates a giant robot that looks like it came out of a Final Fantasy game (one of the Omega Weapons?). The script is so barren it's virtually non-existent - the puppets look differently but barely have any personality, there's little dialogue and the plot is on automatic (run from things!) - so what remains is a beautifully morbid-looking picture, an impressive example of computerized animation. It isn't exactly "filmmaking," it's programming, but apparently that's good enough for most folk nowadays.
