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Silver Pictures
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Free your mind.
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.
GenerationofSwine
Jan 11, 2023 · via TMDB
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.
NeoBrowser
Jul 20, 2013 · via TMDB
Featuring nine animated shorts set in and around The Matrix, written and directed by the cream of Japanese anime creators, with the Wachowski brothers' blessing, The Animatrix arrives with a weight of expectation similar to Reloaded. However, while it's visually sublime - a magical mystery tour of animation styles- it doesn't fully deliver. Overall, the disc is debilitated by story issues and an overwhelming number of downbeat endings, which place it far from the cathartic exhilaration of the original movie. The Wachowskis themselves penned The Second Renaissance Part 1, a beautifully designed look at life pre-Matrix, using a faux newsreel style to chilling effect as the machines rise. Dark-edged, brutal and less smoothly styled, The Second Renaissance Part 2 shows those machines creating The Matrix. Program - the most truly manga-fied effort - is a love story set in Medieval Japan; artistically startling, but less profound than it thinks it is. An athlete breaks out of the Wachowskis' wonderland through sheer willpower in stylized short World Record. Bouquets for its strange, angular art; brickbats for a confusing story. A Kid's Story, on the other hand, is suffused with a dream-like quality, as Clayton Moore (who appears in Reloaded and Revolutions) tries to escape The Matrix with Neo's help. Until a climax which betrays the internal logic of The Matrix, Detective Story is by far the best of the shorts - a spot-on black-and-white noir about a detective enlisted to find Trinity. Beyond (a group of children exploit a glitch in The Matrix) is slight and atmospheric; while Matriculated (outside The Matrix, humans reprogram a machine) is a visually stunning, frankly hallucinogenic trip which out-Kubricks 2001. Lastly, The Final Flight Of The Osiris, the much-vaunted precursor to Reloaded: a triumph for CG photorealism, but the story is wafer-thin. Verdict - Though undeniably beautiful, overall, the disc is debilitated by story issues and an overwhelming number of downbeat endings, which place it far from the cathartic exhilaration of the original movie. 3/5 - Empire Magazine
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Keanu Reeves
Neo ("Kid's Story") (voice)
Carrie-Anne Moss
Trinity ("Kid's Story" and "A Detective Story") (voice)
Clayton Watson
The Kid ("Kid's Story") (voice)
Pamela Adlon
Jue ("Final Flight of the Osiris") / Manabu ("Beyond") (voice)
Melinda Clarke
Alexa ("Matriculated") (voice)
John DiMaggio
Crew Man ("Final Flight of the Osiris") / Kaiser ("Program") (voice)
Kevin Michael Richardson
Thadeus ("Final Flight of Osiris") / Cop ("Kid's Story") / Agent #2 ("World Record")
Tom Kenny
Operator ("Final Flight of Osiris")
Rick Gomez
Pilot ("Final Flight of Osiris")
Tara Strong
Crew Woman ("Final Flight of Osiris") / Nurse ("World Record") / Misha ("Beyond")
Bette Ford
Old Woman ("Final Flight of Osiris")
Julia Fletcher
The Instructor ("The Second Renaissance Part I & II") / Narrator ("World Record")
Debi Derryberry
Kid ("The Second Renaissance Part I & II")
Jill Talley
Mother ("The Second Renaissance Part I & II")
Dwight Schultz
Additional Voices ("The Second Renaissance Part I & II") / Monaka ("Matriculated")
James Arnold Taylor
Additional Voices ("The Second Renaissance Part I & II") / Ash ("A Detective Story") / Raul ("Matriculated")
John DeMita
Teacher ("Kid's Story")
Hedy Burress
Cis ("Program") / Yoko ("Beyond")
Phil LaMarr
Duo ("Program")
Victor Williams
Dan ("World Record")
John Wesley
Dan's Dad ("World Record")
Alex Fernandez
Tom ("World Record")
Allison Smith
Reporter ("World Record")
Matt McKenzie
Agent #1 ("World Record") / Agent ("Beyond") / Agent ("A Detective Story")
Tress MacNeille
Housewife ("Beyond") / Kenny ("Beyond")
Kath Soucie
Pudgy ("Beyond") / Masa ("Beyond") / Sara ("Beyond")
Terrence 'T.C.' Carson
Clarence ("A Detective Story")
Rodney Saulsberry
Chyron ("Matriculated")
Olivia D'Abo
Rox ("Matriculated")
Jack Fletcher
Sandro ("Matriculated")
Akio Otsuka
Thadeus (voice)
Andrew R. Jones
Director
Kōji Morimoto
Director
Mahiro Maeda
Director
Peter Chung
Director
Shinichiro Watanabe
Director
Takeshi Koike
Director
Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Director
Joel Silver
Executive Producer
Eiko Tanaka
Producer
Hiroaki Takeuchi
Producer
Lana Wachowski
Producer
Lilly Wachowski
Producer
Michael Arias
Producer
Steve Richards
Producer
Jack Fletcher
ADR & Dubbing
Don Davis
Original Music Composer
Photek
Original Music Composer
Lana Wachowski
Original Film Writer
Lilly Wachowski
Original Film Writer
Lana Wachowski
Story
Lilly Wachowski
Story
Kōji Morimoto
Writer
Lana Wachowski
Writer
Lilly Wachowski
Writer
Peter Chung
Writer
Shinichiro Watanabe
Writer
Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Writer
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Resident Evil
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Tron
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The Lathe of Heaven
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King of Thorn
War of the Worlds
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The Running Man
They Were Eleven
Avalon
Dudu the Floatie
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RoboCop 2
Krull
S1m0ne
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The 5th Wave
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
Amazon Women on the Moon
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Cube 2: Hypercube
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
Tank Girl
Super Veggie Torracman
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Genesis
Friend of the World
Roller Blade
Behold Man - The Survivors
Battlefield Earth
Paradise of Innocence
Dead Weekend
Judgment! XX Angel Rabbie
ADXM
The Little Panda Fighter
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How Is This the World
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TANK S.W.A.T. 01
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The Telegraph Pole Mother
Strangers
Romeo 3000
To be Near You
Life on Earth
Manager's Love
The Needle
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The Sun Vanished: Proof of Concept
Camille
The Click
Doctor Mambo & Kaitou Jibako: Uchuu yori Ai wo Komete
Generation
SpongeBob SquarePants: Sponge for Hire
Media Mushrooms
The Female Side Effect
EDDY BAIR
Bug
Larger Than Life
Tenerife
Sisypot
We All Go Up
Fruit Brains
Mañana Sí
Initial D: Battle Stage 2
Mystery Cuddlers
Black Zone
Infinite Jest 2
Paradise Man (ii)
Spectral Palpations
CTRL + Z
Tears of Blood
Catalyst
Artificial
Untitled
The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act
The Matrix
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2
Upgrade
South Park: Joining the Panderverse
Waking Life
South Park (Not Suitable for Children)
Halo Legends
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
Alita: Battle Angel
Batman Beyond: The Movie
Killer Bean Forever
The Matrix Reloaded
Justice League: Gods and Monsters
Minions & More Volume 1
The Creator
The House
Batman: Bad Blood
Justice League: Throne of Atlantis
Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons - The Movie
Wonder Woman: Bloodlines
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
Afro Samurai: Resurrection
Chappie
Mad God
The Matrix Revolutions
Vixen: The Movie
Batman: Gotham Knight
Fire and Ice
Hulk Vs.
Heavy Metal
The Electric State
Legion of Super-Heroes
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron
The Matrix Resurrections
Afterburn
Paycheck
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
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Ghost in the Shell
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The Zero Theorem
Metropia
The Spine of Night
Bionicle 2: Legends of Metru Nui
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May 31, 2003
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Jun 3, 2003
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