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drwex9 is a post-apocalyptic puppet animation story. If that seems weird to you, it is. The movie is about puppets imbued by their creator with a mysterious spark of life and what they do with that spark (3.5/5 for competent storytelling, if a bit simplistic).
These beings live in the bombed-out ruins of a world where men built machines that turned on them and they wiped each other out, mostly. Each puppet character is known only by the single digit painted onto it by the creator. The titular "9" is the last to awake and we follow it (him? I'll use the pronouns of the voice actor) on a journey of self-discovery and adventure with others like himself.
They encounter the last remnants of the terrible Machine, and learn about themselves. Like all good puppet movies, the non-humans are actually very human and serve to tell us stories about humanity. There are good and bad people, wise and foolish people, curious and ignorant people. They're just shaped like puppets and voiced by people you've probably heard of, such as Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, and Elijah Wood.
I'm not normally a fan of post-apocalyptica. Once humans are dead, or doomed, reading stories about it fails to interest me. This isn't really that kind of story, though. It's a story about humanity and that's worth seeing.
A word of caution for parents: although this is a puppet movie told simply enough for young minds to understand there are some shock/startle images and it has a PG-13 rating. I wouldn't show this to younger kids who are susceptible to frights.
These beings live in the bombed-out ruins of a world where men built machines that turned on them and they wiped each other out, mostly. Each puppet character is known only by the single digit painted onto it by the creator. The titular "9" is the last to awake and we follow it (him? I'll use the pronouns of the voice actor) on a journey of self-discovery and adventure with others like himself.
They encounter the last remnants of the terrible Machine, and learn about themselves. Like all good puppet movies, the non-humans are actually very human and serve to tell us stories about humanity. There are good and bad people, wise and foolish people, curious and ignorant people. They're just shaped like puppets and voiced by people you've probably heard of, such as Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, and Elijah Wood.
I'm not normally a fan of post-apocalyptica. Once humans are dead, or doomed, reading stories about it fails to interest me. This isn't really that kind of story, though. It's a story about humanity and that's worth seeing.
A word of caution for parents: although this is a puppet movie told simply enough for young minds to understand there are some shock/startle images and it has a PG-13 rating. I wouldn't show this to younger kids who are susceptible to frights.
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Date: 2020-11-18 01:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-11-18 04:28 pm (UTC)Well, yeah, it is on the simplistic side, but what a vocal cast!
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Date: 2020-11-19 12:03 am (UTC)That said, strangely, most of the post-apocalyptica I read is exactly about hope and about people building a new future, so I don't really conflate those two things at all.
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Date: 2020-11-19 01:17 am (UTC)