
9, drawn by curiosity, connects the talisman to the derelict Fabrication Machine, reviving it, and it subsequently kills 2 by sucking out his soul. The Cat-Beast attacks the trio, but are saved by 7, the only female of the Stitchpunks. 9 and 5 venture to the factory where they find 2. 9, having seen the condemned factory where the Cat-Beast took 2, decides to rescue him. 9 collapses, but awakens in Sanctuary, the tower of an empty cathedral that is home to other Stitchpunks - the dogmatic leader 1, his large bodyguard 8, the cycloptic engineer 5, and the mentally unstable oracle 6. The last active machine, the Cat-Beast, attacks the pair and abducts both 2 and takes the talisman. Some time later, the final Stitchpunk, 9, awakens in the workshop and ventures into the devastated city where he meets 2, a frail inventor who gives him a working voice box. He dies upon completion of the final doll. On the verge of destruction, the scientist uses alchemy to create nine homunculus-like rag dolls known as "Stitchpunks" as a last resort to stopping the machines, giving them portions of his own soul via a talisman he created. became corrupted because it lacked a soul, causing it to exterminate humanity. The dictator seizes it upon its apparent completion and turns it into the Fabrication Machine, an armature that can construct an army of war machines to destroy the dictator's enemies. The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on December 29, 2009.Ī scientist is ordered by his dictator to create a robot in the apparent name of progress, and so the scientist creates the B.R.A.I.N., a highly intelligent robot. It also received an Annie Award nomination for Best Animated Effects in a Feature Production. The film received generally mixed to positive reviews from critics and earned $48.4 million on a $30 million budget. Focus Features released it theatrically on September 9, 2009. The film is based on Acker's 2005 CG-animated, Academy Award-nominated short film of the same name created at the UCLA Animation Workshop. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer and Crispin Glover, with Martin Landau and Fred Tatasciore. The film also features the voices of John C. In the film, Elijah Wood voices a small ragdoll-like robot who awakens shortly after the end of mankind, and must find eight other robots to figure out the mystery behind humanity's destruction while tangling with the vicious creations of a massive soul-stealing machine.


9 is a 2009 computer-animated science fiction film directed by Shane Acker, written by Pamela Pettler and produced by Jim Lemley, Tim Burton, Timur Bekmambetov and Dana Ginsburg.
