The Second Renaissance Part II (2003)

Director:

Mahiro Maeda

Writers:

Andy Wachowski (writer)
Larry Wachowski (writer)

Genre:

Animation | Sci-Fi | Short

Plot:

With the robot city isolated and it's ambassadors ejected form the United Nations, a trade war begins...

Plot Keywords:

Dismemberment | Laser Cutter | Mushroom Cloud | United Nations | Nudity

Cast

Julia Fletcher	...	The Instructor (voice)
Dane A. Davis	...	01 Versatran Spokesman (voice) (as Dane Davis)
Debi Derryberry	...	Kid (voice)
Jill Talley	...	Mother / Additional Voices (voice)
Dwight Schultz	...	Additional Voices (voice)
James Arnold Taylor	...	Additional Voices (voice)

Also Known As:

The Animatrix: The Second Renaissance Part 2 (USA) (series title)

Runtime:

UK:10 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Finland:K-15

Company:

Studio 4°C

Quotes:

The Instructor: May there be mercy on man and machine for their sins.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Return to Source: Philosophy & 'The Matrix' (2004) (V)

Soundtrack:

SUPERMOVES

Part 1, part 2, whatever

Part 2 goes on where part 1 stopped (such a surprise!), as the machines feel they don't belong to the humans any longer and start their own country, zero-one. Their economy is growing and they become a threat to all mankind, so they bomb them with everything they got... but fail (as you would expect since otherwise there wouldn't have been a matrix).

Part 2 is a bit more gripping than part 1, although I keep on wondering: is it really important for us to 'know' this? The animatrix series should be an extra for the matrix movies, and for instance 'Osiris' is just that... but Renaissance, whether it's part one or two, feels silly more than intense and pointless more than important... 5/10.