9 is the latest outing from Tim Burton, though he only served as producer with director Shane Acker at the helm.  It features an all star cast as well, including Martin Landau, Jennifer Connelly, Elijah Wood, Crispin Glover, John C. Reilly and Christopher Plummer all lending their voice talent to this tale of a dead scientist’s last effort to restore the spirit of humanity to a world that is ultimately broken and destroyed by his penultimate creation, AI that has turned on us all.  However, can the spirit of humanity imbued within his tiny, sock-puppet like creation, 9, be enough to redeem mankind?

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