Animatrix - Your Most Favourite to Least Favourite

Kid's Story 9/10 (My favorite story in Animatrix)

World Record 8/10 (About a sprinter who can run like a bullet and overcome the Matrix system, and fails in doing so only because he' drawn way more attention than Neo and the kid. A very underrated story)

A Second Renaissance Part II 7/10 (making up for the Matrix lack of explanation of how everyone ends up living in the Matrix.The robots' appearance could'be been more consistent by always having humans looks throughout the story)

A Second Renaissance Part I 7/10 (Same above)

Beyond 7/10 (About a place that allows the manipulated to act any way they want without the manipulators' control and is eventually discovered and wiped out)

Program 6/10 (Emphasizing the theme of making a choice between living in an accident-free, manipulative police state and a unsafe, unpredictable free world)

A Detective Story 6/10 (a story that pivots on Trinity in the Matrix, could've been lengthened)

Final Flight of teh Osiris 5/10 (I've already seen the same scenes in the Matrix. Too repetitive)

Matriculated 5/10 (My least favortite.Can be eliminated from Animatrix)

1. Program (I dig the samurai imagery -- GORGEOUSLY done!)
2. Final Flight of the Osiris (very nicely done; first time I'd ever seen CGI done like this -- and I LOVE Jue!)
3. Second Renaissance parts 1 & 2 (good back story though some of the images were a bit grotesque)
4. A Detective Story (nicely done look at a bit of Trinity's past)
5. Kid's Story (good story but poor animation, I felt)
6. World Record (not particularly interesting)
7. Beyond (ditto)
8. Matriculated (a bit too "odd")

they are all good but...

second renaissance parts 1 and 2
world record
kids story
beyond
detective story
matriculated
program
final flight of the osiris

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1 - Beyond
2 - World Record
3 - Kid's Story
4 - Second Renaissance
5 - Final Flight of the Osiris
6 - Program
7 - A Detective Story
8 - Matriculated

1. Matriculated
2. The Second Renaissance pt.I
3. The Second Renaissance pt.II
4. Kid's Story
5. Beyond
6. Final Flight of the Osiris
7. World Record
8. A Detective Story
9. Program

1&2. A Second Renaissance parts 1&2- I like the semi-mythological telling of the rise of the machines. This works well with the various historic references it contains, too. Like the robots assumed elements of human history into their own mythology, in the same way Christians assumed many pre-Christian elements into theirs.

3. A Detective Story- I enjoyed this Noir style story, though the Trinity dialog is bloody awful. Still, the look and feel of it is great, and I like that it's so stylistically different.

4. Beyond- This is the sort of thing I liked about the idea of the Matrix. Normal every day people coming across strange things that are bits of corrupted code or what have you. And the agents are out to clean them up.

5. Matriculated- I like the Heavy Metal Magazine feel of this one, plus it's just a mind melter. The visuals are nice and I like the idea of waking up the robots.

6. Final Flight of the Osiris- There's really nothing to this. But dang, it looks great. Very little story, very little point. It's just a pre-credit sequence for the second film, really. But it's beautifully made.

7. A Kid's Story- I find the animation somewhat annoying, and I hate the kid character, so this one doesn't do much for me. Still, there are a couple cool scenes.

8. World Record- The super-stylized nature of this one was interesting, as was the idea of someone awakening by pure will. But the whole kind of falls flat, and the very end is too much of a whimper.

9. Program- I honestly hate this one. It's the most 'anime' looking, with the pointed chins and giant eyes, and the motion lines, and silly action. Plus, it just doesn't seem to be about anything. Or at least, by the time it's over, I don't care what it's about. Whenever I watch this disk, I skip Program. It annoys the crap out of me.


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1. Matriculated 8.5/10
2. A Detective Story 8.5/10
3. Program 8/10
4. World Record 8/10
5. Kid's Story 7.5/10
6. Final Flight of the Osiris 7/10
7. Beyond 7/10
8. A Second Renaissance 4/10