9 - muppets vs machines

This is a strange one. A dark (VERY dark...this is not a movie for very young kids....there are several corpses including a dead child within the first 5 minutes! This movie will scare the s**t out of any kid under the age of 10) animated feature about a gang of littlebigplanet-alike cloth puppet people being chased through a post apocalyptic landscape by weird hybrid robots. Looks great but has virtually no plot...its essentially 7 or 8 action sequences strung together to form a  feature that just barely makes 70 minutes and even that limited running time feels like its pushing its concepts to their absolute outer limits. It's a padded out short, in other words.

Not bad, per se...just unexceptional in the current era of spectacularly good animated movies such as Up, Coraline and anything not by Dreamworks. I'm giving it a pass for its eye candy and the art design which will appeal to anyone with a sci-fi art-geek fetish.