Research 9, the feature film

 Right off the bat, I liked how they introduced a creator to the creation. Then the movie transitioned to a new character we had not seen before, 2. I like the premise of his character, how he was kind of helped the upbringing of 9, but wow did he get a terrible story line. He was the second nicest to 9 but basically stayed dead the entire movie. Moving on with the topic I feel that since each of the numbers were a part of the scientist's soul they should each be connected to a certain emotion of trait. The movie would have been way better if they focused more on the scientist's past and how he decided to give each number that part of his soul. Furthermore, I  feel that the movie was a little to all over the place, like the random stuff they did all movie. Like when number 8 decided to use a magnet to his head to insinuate drugs. I do, however, like the several nods to the original short's scenes For example, the original beast, or at the end of the movie where 9 has 5's sack in hand at the grave, and the connection of the lightbulb to the soul collector. The acting was pretty good, but I do have a bias as Elijah Woods is one of my favorite actors. However, the script writing was pretty poor. The antagonists felt really repetitive I felt that throughout the movie I was bombarded with so many different robot animals. I did feel that the tension between 1 and 9 kind of directly represented the scientist's soul. At the beginning he loved his robot and was ready to do anything with it, but as he aged he realized that he should've realized the harm it would cause. Furthermore, it could also represent how he wants to be like number 9, selfless and caring, but in reality he was number 1 his whole life, cold and scared. They could've done a lot of things better, like the fact that number 7 just appeared at the perfect time every time. It is weird to have an animated movie be PG-13, and it was for unnecessary things too, primarily dead bodies. I didn't like the movie but I also didn't hate it. It wasn't better than the short, 6.8/10.