Not to be confused with: 9 (2009)

Plot comparison: Rob Marshall's all-singing, all-dancing musical about the complicated love life of director Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis), versus Shane Acker's bobbing-up-and-down animation about the lives of nine stitchpunk homunculi surviving in a post-apocalyptic Earth. Also complicated.

If they switched directors: Hot animated women hoofing in CG suspenders, and Daniel Day-Lewis playing a sock puppet.  Sounds like fun, if you ask us.

Irksome to whom?: The numbers 1-8.  Even Neill Blomkamp went for the nonagon option with District 9.