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Summary: Slightly dull, but very important backstory
Review: All right. I know a lot of the review said this was bad and that the story was useless. Well, this DVD is what seperates those who understand the Matrix and those who still mindlessly think that the machines won. After Revolutions comes out more and more people will realize the truth. Don't be a fool, watch this DVD.
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Summary: me again
Review: This disc is mess-uped. Any kid under 11 SHOULD NOT FOR ANY REASON SEE THIS. It messes with your mind
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Summary: What?!
Review: What the ****?! I'm a matrix fan but this? I just saw it, and it is worthless. . .and the stuff of nightmares
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Summary: we sorely miss neo here, but great anime
Review: liked it though they should of animated neo in there and had him duke some crap outta the other anime people. for Matrix fans and fans of anime. you dont want to miss this, man
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Summary: On balance, a very entertaining hour and a half . . .
Review: I'm not one of those who eat, sleep, and breathe the Matrix trilogy -- or animation in general, for that matter -- but I do enjoy non-Disney animated art and anime, and also graphic novels, with which this anthology of nine short films has a lot in common. Larry and Andy Lachowski, the creators of the Matrix universe, put this project together as a way of elucidating various unexplored aspects of their created world and providing some additional back-story, and they brought in some of the best contemporary animators to do it. Some of the nine follow the story faithfully, especially, "Final Voyage of the Osiris" and "Program." Others are much more tangential, and I personally think those are the best: "Kid's Story" and "A Detective Story," both by Shinjiro Watanabe, are excellent, yet different from each other. "A Detective Story," especially, done in black, white, and intermediate gray shades, is very noir and reminiscent of Watanabe's "Cowboy Bebop." "Beyond," by Koji Morimoto, is a delightful piece about a girl looking for her wandering cat in a "haunted house" where physical laws are temporarily anomalous. The art itself is wonderful, very personal, not at all "heroic" (as in Yoshiaki Kawajiri's "Program"), with an incredible amount of background detail about a real neighborhood; you'll notice new things everytime you watch it. As for the rest, well, . . . "The Second Renaissance" (in two parts) had some horrific images but it tried to cover too much territory too superficially; "Matriculated" was sort of interesting in its surreal, almost psychedelic colors, but it didn't actually have much to say; and "World Record" simply puzzled me. What *was* that about? All in all, a very interesting experiment. As others have commented, wouldn't it be great to have a collection like this to poke into the narrative nooks and crannies of the Star Wars universe?
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Summary: Good DVD, poor CD
Review: This DVD included 9 different anime stories which follow the theme of the original Matrix movie. Each of them is very well done, but far too short. I think the creatures of each feature could have done much better by lengthening their creations. I highly recomend this DVD.The CD was a different story. If it were not for the CD in this set, I would have given this a five star rating. If I were to do it all over again, I would have only purchased the DVD and skipped the CD. The music on the CD was original, but not very exciting. This music goes quite well in the movies themselves. But not on a stand alone basis. Save the extra money and forget the CD.
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Summary: Uneven
Review: A couple of the cartons are qute good; almost good enough to outweigh the wasted time on the bad ones.
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Summary: Frightening and Enlightening
Review: In one word, fascinating. This collection of shorts is the main thing that got me really interested in The Matrix. Before this, all The Matrix was to me was a great movie that made me think, with a poor follow-up that didn't. Yet these animations did more than make me think, they made me scared. The basic premise of the Matrix should seem at equal times far-fetched and possible. Machines taking over has always been a classic. But The Second Renaissance I&II took that classic plot several steps further. Needless to say, Second Renaissance was my favorite. The way that it showed the horrors that mankind can commit, and the graphic nature that it showed them in made me both horrified and mesmerized at the same time. And if anybody feels that such things are fantasy and could not happen, then what is going on in the parts of the world that you don't want to live in? I'm talking about the Balkans, or wherever in the world there is such a thing as ETHNIC CLEANSING. That's basically what Second Renaissance was depicting, just taken to the extreme. Humanity attempted to commit mass genocide in this world. And I truly believe that such a thing is entirely possible. Machine bodies being dumped into the water by the thousand is a movie image that will stay with me for a long time. As well as the machines being executed, run over by tanks, etc. Anyway, enough of that tirade. The rest of the shorts were excellent also. Some were questionable, which keeps me from giving a full 5 rating to The Animatrix, but most were exceptional. I particularly also liked World Record, which had an amazing message for any athlete who has experienced "The Zone"; Last Flight, mainly because I had to keep reminding myself that it was animation; and Kid's Story, due to the VERY different animation. Definately get this DVD, and if you can't get it, then watch it somehow. It is worth your time.
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Summary: Somewhat dissapointing...
Review: Having enjoyed both Matrix movies, I was very excited to heard that they had made a DVD consisting of animated spin-offs. However, upon renting this, I found it to be somewhat dissapointing. Though it was very intersting to learn "How it all began" with the war between the humans and the robots, I thought that it was presented in an "overly-violent" manner. My companions and I felt rather ill while watching some of the shorts. They made both of the other movies seem like Sesame Street. However, dispite the over-done violence in a few of the films, the stories were all beautifully told and the animation was simply breath-taking. (My personal favorites being "The last Flight of Osiris" and "Kid's Story".) I advise Matrix fans to rent this movie, but before you do, make sure the kids are in bed.
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Summary: Not a masterpiece..but good and worthy to be seen.. !!
Review: ..Very good idea to gather all these animation artists and their teamworks in one movie...it could be confusing for some to watch an animation movie made of 9 chapters each is very different than other...but i think it was good to produce it in such way..here you are not watching a movie that is connected and united from the start to the end..you are watching several sketches all about the idea of matrix...far away from what you have seen in the movies ( the matrix ) ..you'd certainly enjoy the way each artist see the world of matrix in his own way and vision...also you'd enjoy the movie if you are into enigmatic and dramatic stories that seems some how incomplete so they keep your mind bust for ome time after watching 'em...i think much more movies can be produced with the same idea....seems the idea or the PHILOSOPHY of the matrix is more flexable that being just put in one movie....at the end here are the chapters i liked most : last flight of osiris , Beyond , The program.
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