Ever since we saw the trailer, the entire Geek household has been anxiously awaiting the release of Shane Acker’s animated movie, 9.  It appears to be dark, visually stunning and thought-provoking. Awesome!  An animated flick that isn’t all Disney and shnizit! Not that I have anything against Disney. It’s just nice to have some animation that isn’t targeted to the Pull-ups demographic.

I try not to read reviews before going to see movies.  I find that most critics don’t get it, often being too snooty or trying to make every movie into Driving Miss Daisy – the last movie they truly loved. </snark> I did skim the reviews this morning and based on what I read, this is going to be a great flick although it is clearly not for young children.  It is rated PG-13 for the violence and strong imagery that may be disturbing for children under 11.

In case you haven’t heard about 9, check out the trailer.

And Eamonn –  BTDT and I feel as if you crawled into my head and pulled this out.

Spike Jonze is putting the finishing touches on the movie adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s  truly magical and wonderful Caldecott Award winning book, Where the Wild Things Are. It has been a long time coming, and there were times when it looked like the movie would never make it to release.

As far as I’m concerned, Where the Wild Things Are is the best children’s book…EVER.  Maurice Sendak’s illustrations are nothing short of brilliant.  Even now, years after the boys are all too old to care about something like this, it is easily quotable by everyone in the OGL household.  No joke!

Everything I have read today makes me even more impatient to see this movie.  According to Chud.com,

Try as I might, I can’t verbalize how I felt about the trailer beyond the most grandiose superlatives: ‘beautiful’ and ‘gorgeous’ and ‘breathtaking’, making me sound like Pete Hammond. The environments in particular (there’s a sequence of cutting between 4 shots of Max running through different environments that is absolutely magical) are a work of incredible vision, especially in light of the production methods Spike opted for. It does feel like a ‘kids movie’ (not pejorative): the trailer repeatedly made me about eight years old, over and over again. Unless I’m an idiot, and you’ll see yourself in a week or two, the finalized monsters are some kind of incredible technical achievement.

I did a search today to try to find an early release or leak of the trailer.  The powers that be at Warner Brothers have forced every site that had a copy to remove it.  If anyone out there can send me a copy of it I would be forever indebited.  The good news is that  the trailer will be seen by audiences of Monsters vs. Aliens which gives me a(nother) reason to go see that movie.

In the mean time, check out this test footage and try to be patient until October 2009! 

Let the wild rumpus start!!!!!