The Animatrix

31/5/2003 1h 42m 7.2/10

Overview

Straight from the creators of the groundbreaking Matrix trilogy, this collection of short animated films from the world's leading anime directors fuses computer graphics and Japanese anime to provide the background of the Matrix universe and the conflict between man and machines. The shorts include Final Flight of the Osiris, The Second Renaissance, Kid's Story, Program, World Record, Beyond, A Detective Story and Matriculated.

Director

Andrew R. Jones

Top Billed Cast

Keanu Reeves

Neo ("Kid's Story") (voice)

John DiMaggio

Crew Man ("Final Flight of the Osiris") / Kaiser ("Program") (voice)

Carrie-Anne Moss

Trinity ("Kid's Story" and "A Detective Story") (voice)

Pamela Adlon

Jue ("Final Flight of the Osiris") / Manabu ("Beyond") (voice)

Melinda Clarke

Alexa ("Matriculated") (voice)

Clayton Watson

The Kid ("Kid's Story") (voice)

Reviews

GenerationofSwine

1/11/2023

10/10

Ooooh, yeah, I just ripped into Revolutions for breaking from the way The Matrix and Reloaded looked and now... the Animatrix. And I'm not going to do the same thing. All the segments looked a little different, which I liked. But this comes along and it sort of fills in the backstory of the Matrix world. Almost like the, brothers at the time, sisters now looked at the Matrix and realized that Sci-Fi geekdom was loving it and they had to really explain a history so that the geeks like me had something to sink our teeth into and argue about at the comic book store on Wednesday nights. And then, with the Animatrix, they gave it to us... and THANK YOU.