Chappie

Robot 9 addresses sentiment rather than intellect of AI.  Copley goes to the Serkis while Ripley overcomes her fear of machines and struggles to keep Hugh’s hair from killing Slumdev.  Antwoord raises die question of whether casting actors would have been more effective.  Only artificially intelligent, but not too crappie.

District 9

Clever retelling of apartheid that incorporates every video game weapon ever conceived. Bonus points for originality of story and for impressively goopy body explosions. Negative points for silly transformation plot aspect and arbitrary use of documentary footage. One of only seventeen films in 2009 to use the Avatar/Transformers/Terminator Salvation robot.