Audience reviews
18 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
DouglasDDoom
Gostei da animação! É o meu primeiro contato com o universo de Matrix, pois ainda não assisti a nenhum filme. Não sei se os filmes vão explorar várias ideias como nessa animação ou se vão ser mais contidos em um só personagem ou núcleo, mas com certeza me deixou curioso para ver as produções os filmes. Gostei muito dos estilos de animação experimental, mesclando 2D, a estética dos anos 80/90, um tom mais dark e o estilo em preto e branco. Tudo muito bem animado e com ótima direção! Os meus diretores preferidos foram Peter Chung, Mahiro Maeda, Shinichirō Watanabe e Takeshi Koike.
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It always doesn't feel right to give a score to a series that doesn't have a main plot line going through all of it, but rather has a theme that each episode follows with unrelated plot, different characters and visual style, so i will score episodes separately and give a short review of the whole thing in this section. The show uses the Matrix setting, but it is a set of different stories which don't make a lot of plot connections with the original work. If you like cyberpunk dystopias I would recommend you watching the whole thing, because, even though some episodes are bland and unimaginative, every episode is 9-15 minutes so you can sit through it. Overall I don't think it aged too well and the format of short episodes does a disservice to most stories in the show, but some episodes st…
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The anthology to trump all anime anthologies.
The Animatrix is without a doubt, the greatest thing to come out of The Matrix trilogy. (that 4th one isn't real.)
The Matrix itself has a pretty spotty track record. From the masterpiece original, to the flawed, but awesome second, to the forgettable third.
The Animatrix cuts all the fat and gives you what the series always should've been. As much as I like all the existential cerebral thinkpiece essays mouthed off in the movies, Animatrix strips itself to the bare essentials of the plot and concept of the Matrix. The animation varies in quality, (from great, to excellent) due to its episodic format of utilizing a different studio and director for each part.
They pulled out every ace in their pockets for this. The minds and animators behi…
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One of the most amazing animes ever made! I love it from the beggining to the end... The cyberpunk visuals, the art direction, the stories.... My personal favorites are The Second Renaissance Part 1 & 2, Beyond, Detective Story and A Kid's Story... There are just soooo much interpretations you can make from it.... Many discussions! So much interesting ideas and philosophy behind it, truly a masterpiece!
I highly recommend it for anyone who wants some existencial questions answers, or if you're just a big fan of the first movie, The Matrix. I don't think I've ever saw an anime more cyberpunky than this one. Only the most professional japenese artists involved! The Second Renaissance Part 1 & 2 was definitely the story that most impacted me...
Beyond is amazing too, how it shows the girl fi…
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I'll make a review on every short, just so people can see if they're interested in just a part of the anthology, instead of watching everything.
Final Flight of the Osiris: 4/10
The weird, out of left field sexual energy of the short was so... strange.
As an introduction to the animated world of The Matrix, "Final Flight of the Osiris" fails on many levels. Choreography is finicky, the voice acting is strangely plain, even if the ideas it presents could be a lot better. Filling the blanks on parts of the films could be okay, as long as you give a good reason for it. Other shorts explore the origin story of the whole matrix, others interest you in how anomalies are fixed, or how they affect the rules, ways people wake up from the Matrix. This one just tells us how a bad day goes for peop…
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The Animatrix is significantly better than I expected. The quality of the shorts varies heavily from 4/10s to 9/10s, so I'll go through them one by one.
Don't be driven off by the first short because it's easily the worst.
Final Flight of the Osiris:
This one is easily the worst with dated 3D animation. Besides that, the voice acting and the action is all still fine. It's just very basic and there's not much to say about it. Apparently it's supposed to be a prequel to a Matrix video game if that interests you at all. Still better than Resurrections at least lmao
The Second Renaissance (both parts):
From one of the worst to arguably the best. If you're a Matrix fan, this is where you get answers to questions like why the robot uprising happened, why the sky outside seems dark all the tim…
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Coming into this knowing nothing about it, it actually caught my attention right away
as someone who has watched all of the matrix movies I enjoyed the different aspects/takes on the universe
watched it dubbed and the voice actors are great!
unlike most people, we actually enjoyed the art styles, the old animation was cool to watch, and how the origin always comes back to anime. At moments felt nostalgic
story's were really interesting and even though they had their own meaning it was like the watcher could also spin their own
ideology on the story.
Only complaint was with some of the segments had a really great idea going that wasn't properly executed and left a little vacant hole.
if you are a fan of the matrix I recommended this you will probably get some kind of enjoyment out o…
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It's an odd collection of miscellaneous stories regarding the Matrix universe, all short films. You see a two parter explaining how the Matrix dystopia was reached which is cool. It's tragic, but grand, awesome and dark all at the same time. The other movies are fascinating, playing with different art styles from occasionally famous directors. There's a samurai one which is cool.
Different themes are explored in the short films, some more emotionally impactful than others. One relates to a runner trying to hard to run that he ends up breaking the Matrix. Cool stuff.
There's a badass detective movie as well, alongside a movie which is more relaxing, showing a young women/teenager with some young boys playing around in a glitched Matrix area.
I particularly liked the final short film, it…
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I saw this show when I was 8 and the only thing I could remember was the final episode and how abstract and weird the program for the machine looked. Now as I re-watch it 10 years later it leaves a very big impression on me which is the reason I rated it so high as only few anime can bring my mind to life like this.
The episodes cover a variety of philosophical scenarios from the Matrix world. The application of most of the episodes leaves you wondering if such phenomena could occur in our reality. Each episode felt like it was teaching you something emotional about the machines perspective and then they hit you with the final episode where they convince you to feel pity for the machine. All of this adds up to a surreal work of art in my opinion.
Overall, super good if your baked.
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Before you even watch this anime you should probably at least watch the first Matrix movie or ortherwise this might seem like a confusing movie.
Most of the stories were really interesting and were very thematic and had a lot of meanings to them.The sounds were really good especially the music which was unique and different and each one of the epsidoes. The biggest issue was with the consistency of the movie. Some of the episdoes were really good while others were alright but still good.
Overall an enjoyable anime that adds some new details to the world of Matrix. So many words to describe it a mix of emotions for me.
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SHORT 1 - Final Flight of Osiris (dir. Andy Jones and prod. SQUARE USA)
So, this short only really exists to set up Matrix Reloaded as well as Enter the Matrix (greeeaaaattt), and in spite of a well choreographed opening fight scene, it quickly devolves into gray mush with muzzle flashes. It suffers slightly from Star Wars prequel-itis, yes it is tying directly into events of the film I like and yes I do recognise the iconography, but the reason these shorts exist is to expand the universe beyond what was seen before. FFoO meanwhile does very little to expand the universe, stylistically ressembles a Matrix themed Second Life server, and is a boring slog to begin with. This short should've been called The Blue Pill because it sure as hell put me to sleep.
2/10
SHORT 2 - The Second Renaissa…
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Japanese animation had forever left it's footprint in the world of science fiction by the late 90s. Works like AKIRA and GHOST IN THE SHELL were just the kind of stylish, cool, violent, dystopian, and thoughtful visions of the future that would land them squarely within the favoritism of American pop culture, impressing Hollywood titans like James Cameron. Nowhere are these influences more noticeable than in the Wachowskis' hit trilogy THE MATRIX. The merging of stylish action, philosophical themes, and a futuristic setting provides a unique cocktail that is heavily indebted to anime. It only makes sense for the Wachowskis to give it back to the animation their success has been built upon.
THE ANIMATRIX is a collection of nine animated shorts set within the universe of THE MATRIX, each w…
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REVIEW WITH NO SPOILERS
First of all, you need to watch the Matrix movie. Then you can watch this anime.
The show bring us some other stories from the Matrix universe, some of them before the war with the machine (something as a prequel of the Matrix first movie) and other tell parallel stories... but all of them are really interesting.
If you liked as least the first movie, then you'll probably like this. But I should warn you: the animation is pretty bad. Really bad, even if you consider the time it was made.
So, if you're a Matrix and an anime fan, it will worth the bad animation, cause the stories are really awesome!
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Rate:8 (very Good)
English Dubbed
Hard not to like this anime. For those not aware you have an animation sequel to the popular film The Matrix. It has 9 stories. Each story is very different from each other.
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Like i said among the 9 stories the plot and art differed quite a bit. The artists did a wonderful job in blending the art to a way that best matches the story. For example, if you think of a detective movie. I mean a real good one. what comes to kind other than the trench coat? Black and white. Which is what they did and more. Sure, they matched the story but they did not drop from character. The ride presented within each story was a virtual roller coaster ride that placed you in the seat of the action. Never once tilted you too far out of your seat.
To make matters better…
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The Animatrix consists of 9 completely different shorts so it's hard to review in one go but let's try.
I can only say that I really wished that the original sequels to the first matrix movie were a bit more like these shorts. They are much closer to what I loved about the first movie than the sequels.
To everyone new to the matrix I always use to say: "Don't watch Reloaded and Revolutions. They are bullcrap. Watch the first movie and animatrix and be done with it."
Before taking a short look at each episode I just want to say that this collection is a must have for people who like high quality anime productions.
The Final Flight of the Osiris 9:
The Final Flight of the Osiris tells a story about a crew of a rebel ship in the real world. The animations and fighting scenes are breathtak…
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I’m not a big fan of The Matrix trilogy, one of the more mainstream science fiction spectacles of the past twenty years. When I was a kid, I loved it. It was my first R-rated movie, it was dark and edgy like any kid is bound to like, and it had neat martial arts action. But as I grew older I finally watched the second and third films and began to hate the series. Anymore, probably thirteen or so years after watching The Matrix for the first time, I think it’s overrated and I can’t see the appeal. It hasn’t aged well and that, on top of pretty bad storytelling as the movies continued, led me to neglect the series for years…
Until now. I never watched the Animatrix, I don’t think I had any intention to after Revolutions. So now, years later, allow me to break down the pieces that comprise t…
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It’s rather hard to talk about a show like this because it’s mostly like a range of different episodes. They may all contain the Matrix like style but there really isn’t much that connects them. From the story to the animation, each part is different and told in its own way. The movie gets more and more confusing as the stories keep going, making it hard to get what is going on. There isn’t an indication of if you are inside the Matrix or outside it. All I could understand was how pretty the animations were at points and how ‘crappy’ they were in others. The whole mix of samurai to space age, to computer simulations that look so real that it could be live action, all of that just seemed a little overboard.
Question, why does it start out with a man and women undressing each other with kat…
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Anthologies of animated shorts based on Western properties have become something a big deal. In the past two years we've seen both Batman and Halo get this treatment, as well as the videogame Dante's Inferno. However, the Animatrix is still the gold standard of such works, even going so far as to outshine some of its source material.
The secret for the Animatrix's success is the talent that was poured into it. Some of the creative minds that worked on it include Mahiro Maeda (Gankutsuou), Yoshiaki Kawajiri (Ninja Scroll), and Shinichirō Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop), in addition to some up-and-coming talents as well.
While the Matrix sequels devolved into mysticism and spectacle, the different pieces of the Animatrix give us new spins on the ideas that first made this world so compelling. Each…
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