10 Bad Movies With Great Trailers

10. 9

The sentence 'steampunk post-apocalyptic puppet animation' even sounds cool, so it was a real shame when Shane Acker's 9 failed to live up to the undoubted potential shown in his original student film, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short.

With the presence of aesthetically-driven filmmakers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov as producers and a $30m budget, Acker must have been confident in stretching out the eleven-minute concept into a full-length feature. When the first trailer dropped, so were plenty of other people.

There's no denying that on a technical level 9 is incredibly impressive, with Acker showing huge ambition and a real knack for world-building, but on a narrative level the movie starts to fall apart. The movie aimed high and wasn't objectively terrible, but the final product made it abundantly clear that the story simply wasn't enough to hold an entire movie together, leaving 9 as a disappointing missed opportunity.