The Animatrix Gift Set (2003)

Much Better Than the Actual Movies

Let me say straight out, I have never been a fan of the Matrix movies. What started out as an obvious ripoff of John Woo films and Ghost in the Shell was drawn out into an unnecessary trilogy for purely financial reasons. The Wachowski brothers are without a doubt two of the biggest hacks in Hollywood, just look at the failure of their Speed Racer adaptation. However, the idea of the Animatrix was genius; take the premise of the Matrix, strip away all the useless martial arts attempts at action scenes and focus on the truly interesting part of these films, the story. The centerpiece is without a doubt the finest; "The Second Renaissance". This two-part story tells the most interesting piece of drama, the back story, and the dark depths to which this chapter goes show the true destructive nature of humanity. If only the films had focused on the first war between humans and machines, we might not have had such horribly acted pretentious dribble. Several of the other shorts are excellent as well. "Final Flight of the Osiris" demonstrates Square's perfection for human CGI animation (second only to Pixar), while Peter Chung takes his hyper-intelligent mold of anime to the extreme in "Matriculated". What becomes clear to the viewer after time and repeated viewings, is these artists are infinitely more creative than the Wachowskis, who should have perhaps stayed as producers on the film trilogy, and handed over directorial control to someone more capable, and more competent. June 24, 2008

Good Set of Stories!!!

Animatrix is a set of short stories that take place in the matrix universe, each with there own animation style. To make this short I'll just say that it's worth it! June 1, 2008

Anime Fused With The Matrix

There is no comparison to the Matrix Trilogy...
Until... The Animatrix was released!

This DVD includes 9 unreleased titles
made buy the guys that brought you The Matrix!

Each short film has it's own story and style.
They still follow, to some extent, the idea that
The Matrix was based off of.

When can we say there's TOO MUCH technology? So far,
I like where we're heading, it brought me this movie...
But maybe some day we will reach the point where our
world is run by it... April 18, 2008

The Animatrix Gift Set (includes soundtrack)

This animation is a mini series of different views of the Matrix. The series are like various examples of how the Matrix function. It could be interesting for the animation and matrix lovers. However i do prefer a single movie rather than short different series. April 12, 2008

a good start.

this animated movie didnt add up to my expectations. seems to me at times it let way off the matrix series and wanted to prove to be better. i would have loved to see just a animated version of all matrix movies rolled into this movie. but i expected too much i guess April 10, 2008

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