1.3 billion dollars. That’s the result of the latest sale report for James Cameron’s Avatar. Although many debate that the sales have been boosted by the IMAX ticket pricing, the movie’s popularity makes it without a doubt one of the shiny successes of 2009 and the town’s talk for 2010. Yet there are plenty of naysayers out there calling it common, boring, a run of the mill. Compared to the Avatar fan boys/girls their number is insignificant, but their voice must be heard and it is as important as anybody else’s. So I decided that a review based on their opinions would be at least a good idea.

Their first complaint is about the story, which in a highly condensed version goes like this: on a distant planet called Pandora humans … More

9 is an eighty minutes long CGI film produced by Tim Burton, which presents the story of a group of tiny human-made rag dolls that fight for survival on a post apocalyptic world that was once much similar to our own. Reminiscences of the machines that brought the complete extinction of the human race still roam free in this world and pose a deadly threat to any living thing, including the nine little dolls which are brought to life by the voices of great actors such as Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, Jennifer Connelly and Elijah Wood.

The post apocalyptic setting is slowly but surely becoming one of the most boring and over used ones out there. 9 makes no exception from this, and quickly embraces stereotypical elements like the streets filled with wrecked cars, the empty grey buildings, the rust, the dust and the acid rain. … More