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The Animatrix

- 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.

Release Date : 2003-05-09

Language :EnglishJapanese

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Warner Bros. PicturesVillage Roadshow PicturesSilver PicturesSquare USASTUDIO4℃MadhouseD N A

Production Country : JapanUnited States of AmericaSouth Korea

Alternative Titles : AnimatrixThe Matrix: AnimatrixFinal Flight of the OsirisThe Second RenaissanceKid's StoryProgramWorld RecordBeyondA Detective StoryMatriculated

Cast

Character Name : Neo ("Kid's Story") (voice)

Original Name : Keanu Reeves

Gender : Male

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

Original Name : Carrie-Anne Moss

Gender : Female

Character Name : The Kid ("Kid's Story") (voice)

Original Name : Clayton Watson

Gender : Male

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

Original Name : Pamela Adlon

Gender : Female

Character Name : Alexa ("Matriculated") (voice)

Original Name : Melinda Clarke

Gender : Female

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

Original Name : John DiMaggio

Gender : Male

Character Name : Thadeus ("Final Flight of Osiris") / Cop ("Kid's Story") / Agent #2 ("World Record")

Original Name : Kevin Michael Richardson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Operator ("Final Flight of Osiris")

Original Name : Tom Kenny

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pilot ("Final Flight of Osiris")

Original Name : Rick Gomez

Gender : Male

Character Name : Crew Woman ("Final Flight of Osiris") / Nurse ("World Record") / Misha ("Beyond")

Original Name : Tara Strong

Gender : Female

Character Name : Old Woman ("Final Flight of Osiris")

Original Name : Bette Ford

Gender : Female

Character Name : The Instructor ("The Second Renaissance Part I & II") / Narrator ("World Record")

Original Name : Julia Fletcher

Gender : Male

Character Name : 01 Versatran Spokesman ("The Second Renaissance Part I & II")

Original Name : Dane A. Davis

Gender : Male

Character Name : Kid ("The Second Renaissance Part I & II")

Original Name : Debi Derryberry

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mother ("The Second Renaissance Part I & II")

Original Name : Jill Talley

Gender : Female

Character Name : Additional Voices ("The Second Renaissance Part I & II") / Monaka ("Matriculated")

Original Name : Dwight Schultz

Gender : Male

Character Name : Additional Voices ("The Second Renaissance Part I & II") / Ash ("A Detective Story") / Raul ("Matriculated")

Original Name : James Arnold Taylor

Gender : Male

Character Name : Teacher ("Kid's Story")

Original Name : John DeMita

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cis ("Program") / Yoko ("Beyond")

Original Name : Hedy Burress

Gender : Female

Character Name : Duo ("Program")

Original Name : Phil LaMarr

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dan ("World Record")

Original Name : Victor Williams

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dan's Dad ("World Record")

Original Name : John Wesley

Gender : Male

Character Name : Tom ("World Record")

Original Name : Alex Fernandez

Gender : Male

Character Name : Reporter ("World Record")

Original Name : Allison Smith

Gender : Female

Character Name : Agent #1 ("World Record") / Agent ("Beyond") / Agent ("A Detective Story")

Original Name : Matt McKenzie

Gender : Male

Character Name : Housewife ("Beyond") / Kenny ("Beyond")

Original Name : Tress MacNeille

Gender : Female

Character Name : Pudgy ("Beyond") / Masa ("Beyond") / Sara ("Beyond")

Original Name : Kath Soucie

Gender : Female

Character Name : Clarence ("A Detective Story")

Original Name : Terrence 'T.C.' Carson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Chyron ("Matriculated")

Original Name : Rodney Saulsberry

Gender : Male

Character Name : Rox ("Matriculated")

Original Name : Olivia d'Abo

Gender : Female

Character Name : Sandro ("Matriculated")

Original Name : Jack Fletcher

Gender : Male

Character Name : Thadeus (voice)

Original Name : 大塚明夫

Gender : Male

Reviews

NeoBrowser

@NeoBrowser

2021-06-23

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

GenerationofSwine

@GenerationofSwine

2023-01-11

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.