"Are audiences ready for this startling departure from traditional animation and happier plot lines?"

Southern author Flannery O'Connor once said of one of her characters, "She would have been a good woman if there was someone there to shoot her every day of her life." So then, would this have been a good film, had there been someone there to say "No" every day of production? 9 director Shane Acker has been working on this story for over 10 years, and has clearly envisioned a…