The Animatrix
Director: Peter Chung, Shinichiro Watanabe, Koji Morimoto, Andy Jones, Mahiro Maeda, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski, Takeshi Koike
Genre: Animation, Science Fiction, Anime, Action, Adventure, Drama, Japanese Movies
Year: 2003
Country: United States of America, Japan
Language: Japanese Language, English Language
Starring: Pamela Adlon, Hedy Burress, Dwight Schultz, James Arnold Taylor, Clayton Watson, Carrie-Anne Moss, Keanu Reeves, Kevin Michael Richardson, Hedy Burress, Julia Fletcher, Olivia d'Abo, Melinda Clarke, Akio Ohtsuka, TC Carson, Dane A. Davis
The Animatrix (アニマトリックス, animatorikkusu) is a 2003 direct-to-video anthology film based on The Matrix trilogy. The film is a compilation of nine animated short films.
The plot-summaries of the shorts are listed below in the order that they run in the DVD release, which is not the chronological order. Chronologically, the order would be:
The other four shorts (Program, World Record, Beyond, and Matriculated) are independent of the events of any other installment. While they generically deal with the virtual reality of the Matrix, and the Zion rebels, conceivably they could take place at any point in the generations-long struggle between the human rebels and the Machines running the Matrix.
Final Flight of the Osiris was written by the Wachowski Brothers and directed by Andy Jones, with CG-animation production and design by Square Pictures, the film is rated PG-13 by the MPAA for "Sci-Fi Violence, Sensuality and Language". The short is a direct prequel leading into the events of The Matrix Reloaded.
Thadeus (Kevin Michael Richardson), a muscular man and an athletic woman called Jue (Pamela Adlon) engage in a blindfolded sword fight in a virtual-reality dojo (similar to the sparring
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