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I'm surprised to read reviews that marginalize the commentary.
Why?
The commentary says the Matrix and the Wachowski brothers' work is essentially inspired by the Japanese animation style. Not just in visual perspectives, but Japanese animation and other media has long had an apocalyptic thread of reference (tied to the history of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings, of course). So for a series of anime shorts to be then based on the Matrix, things come full circle.
It also says some writers chose to write their interpretations purely from scratch, rather than use existing references the brothers provided. So I think it's easier to view these episodes as side stories more or less exploring the concept of the Matrix, although a few had specific references and connections to the main story. It's slightly comparable to fan fiction, but with much more structure, and full official support, although I think that's a relatively crude and incomplete analogy, now that I think of it.
I mean, c'mon, those that visited [...] when the promo website FIRST started-- weren't you thinking of the conceptual possibilities of the Matrix then?
I think the brothers stumbled a bit with Reloaded and Revolutions, and I seem to recall other fans were similarly disappointed. Again, as The Animatrix is not fully bound by the main story, I think that makes it a gem, and worth keeping in a collection even if you don't collect the other two movies. It's certainly not a piece that is not much more than promotional fluff (as others pointed out with other animated tie-ins to other movies). It more or less stands well on its own. You could view this before the first movie and I don't think it'd necessarily spoil things.
Oh, and I'm one of those movie soundtrack nuts, so I did buy this packaged with the CD soundtrack and enjoyed it as well. I think it related much better to The Matrix movie, actually (as it did have voice samples from the movie) but then it didn't have commercial artists singing songs that weren't necessarily written with the movie in mind (which is fairly typical of studio movie soundtracks, including The Matrix).
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