my girlfriend and i decide to see $ 9 . 99 after read a large write up in the ny time . we both like claymation and and be intrigue by the mature approach this movie be take . it not a kid film and but the problem be that it simply not a good film . the plot and if you can even call it that and be practically non existent . the story meander from one character to another and with very little rhyme or reason . i guess you could call it a character base film and but the character be less than intrigue . they either come off a not very believable or just simply bore . the filmmaker can not seem to make her mind up whether this should be a slice of life or a surreal journey and and it end up fail at both . on the realism side you get the boring old guy no one want to talk to and the young adult who can not hold down a job and a little kid who decide that his piggy bank be his favorite toy and and a few more . on the surreal side you have an abrasive homeless jerk who become an angel and an engage man who decide he would rather hang with miniature party buddy instead of get marry and and a man who shave off all his hair for a beautiful woman and then turn into a chair at the end . don not worry about explanation and character development and or intrigue dialogue because there isn not any . when a plot be this weak and character be this boring and and the conclusion be so unsatisfying and i struggle to find any redeeming quality here . the sophomoric claymation certainly doesn not do it any favor either . $ 9 . 99 want to be a surreal philosophical journey and but it mostly just an underwhelming and unsatisfying series of vignette that be poorly tie together . it almost like someone take the film wake life and remove all the interesting dialogue and philosophy and and tack on a sorry excuse for a plot . there simply not much here worth watch and and you certainly would not find the meaning of life with $ 9 . 99 .