Animatrix - Your Most Favourite to Least Favourite

Kid's Story: Damn, The Matrix Reloaded/Revolutions really needed this story. Kid was useless in those films, and his lack of a back story really hurt all the parts he featured in. I couldn't care less about him there, and I really disliked him. This is a pretty cool segment - interesting animation technique and a cool story which actually has some bearing on the proper Matrix films make this my favourite segment. 7.5/10

The Second Renaissance - Part I: The Animation is subpar in this one, but it has a very interesting story which more than makes up for it. Alters your perceptions of the machines. 7/10

A Detective Story: I love the animation style in this, it's really unique. Despite the short run time, it manages to tell a full story, although it could do with some more fleshing out. The detective's voice actor speaks in an irritating monotone though, which hurts the segment a bit. 7/10

Beyond: Another segment with an interesting concept - a glitchy "haunted" house in the Matrix. I don't really like the animation style of this particular story though. The contrast between the wonder of the haunted house, compared to the mundane city, is pretty cool though. It is a very different segment to say the least. 6.5/10

The Second Renaissance - Part II: Like Part I, this is a very interesting, very nihilistic story which explains the backstory of the human-machine war. Not as interesting as Part I, mostly due to constant interspersing of disconnected bits of violence, but cool nonetheless. 6.5/10

World Record: A very simple, unique idea - a man runs so fast that he literally breaks through the Matrix. The execution isn't the best unfortunately, and I don't really like the exaggerated style. 6.5/10

Matriculate: Of all the segments, this one is easily one of the best animated. It starts out simple enough, but begins to get really strange, really quick. I do "understand" what it is getting at, but I don't find it particularly interesting regardless. 6/10

Final Flight of the Osiris: Really good animation, although it's hard to give much of a crap about any of the characters with the short run time. Also, the sword fight at the beginning was ridiculous. 6/10

Program: Kind of a redundant segment, pretty much the same idea as Cypher's role in the original Matrix. I'm not a fan of the dumb twist either, it makes it even more pointless. 6/10




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