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Overview

User Rating:
7.1/10   14,456 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Pamela Pettler (screenplay)
Shane Acker (story)
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Release Date:
9 September 2009 (USA) more
Tagline:
(3) To Difine Us... more
Plot:
A post-apocalyptic nightmare in which all of humanity is threatened. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
3 nominations more
NewsDesk:
Perry's Madea Holds Sway At Box Office
 (From Studio Briefing - Film News. 15 September 2009, 2:00 PM, PDT)

User Reviews:
Beautiful animation; undeveloped, incomplete story more (113 total)

Cast

  (Credited cast)

Christopher Plummer ... 1 (voice)

Martin Landau ... 2 (voice)

John C. Reilly ... 5 (voice)

Crispin Glover ... 6 (voice)

Jennifer Connelly ... 7 (voice)
Fred Tatasciore ... 8 / Radio Announcer (voice)

Elijah Wood ... 9 (voice)
Alan Oppenheimer ... The Scientist (voice)

Tom Kane ... Dictator (voice)

Helen Wilson ... Newscaster (voice)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for violence and scary images.
Runtime:
79 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Trivia:
1 tells 9 that he led the others to their current hideout, which he refers to as "sanctuary". The building happens to be Notre Dame church, famously referred to "sanctuary" in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." more
Goofs:
Continuity: When searching for the tunnel 5 loses the map and it blows away, yet when 7 finds the tunnel she finds the map propped on a stick a few feet from the tunnel. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Scientist: We had such potential, such promise.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in "This Morning: (2009-10-28)" (2009) more
Soundtrack:
Dies Irae more

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74 out of 120 people found the following review useful.
Beautiful animation; undeveloped, incomplete story, 11 September 2009
5/10
Author: paulglen from United States

This movie feels like it starts in the middle. I don't instinctively identify with robot rag dolls. So, for most of the movie I didn't care much about what happened to them because their plight, purpose, and origin are not explained at all until the movie is almost over. At that point, I felt like "Oh, okay, if they had explained that in the FIRST 15 minutes of the movie, I might have cared what happens". But they didn't explain it, and I didn't care what happened.

I won't even go into the conclusion of the "story", except to say that it makes no sense at all and is riddled with holes and ambiguity.

Yes, the animation is very nice. Yes, there are some decent action scenes. Those are the strongest points of the movie. But, honestly, beyond the unique look and style of the artwork, it's the same stuff, the same action, that you see in every other animated movie. Ho hum.

Summary: nice animation, cliché action, underdeveloped plot, and very little story to pull the (over age 16) viewer in.

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