GamerTab That was an excellent one.

SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Peereddi I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Foreverisacastironmess I love the animation style and moody yet cool feel of Kid's Story. All of the human body movements look so beautifully realistic. Almost rotoscoped at times. It may be a tiny not relevant to the tiny plot thing, but a little detail that I really loved is the few seconds where the kid is eating his toast! It's such a charmingly ordinary mannerism in a situation which is far from that. There's not a whole lot to this short but it does add a touch of depth to the wide-eyed puppydog from the sequels, of which I much prefer to the arsy first one. I don't know if any Kid depthness was wanted, but it's still very interesting and one of the best Animatricees. I never found the character annoying, just weird. Unlike a few others, or so it would seem, I didn't find the leap of faith at the end to be grim. It was quite uplifting, to me. He's simultaneously ascending as he's descending. There's a quaint little paradox there. I thought it was a really powerful and well done concept. It brings to my mind the dream where you're falling and you wake up just as you land in your body. I don't get how the Kid could have left a body behind to be buried. Shouldn't he have just disappeared when he, "died?" And it contradicts the rule that says if you die in the Matrix it's for real. Of course, he may have been so focused on his belief that he was somehow able to transcend all that. It makes you wonder if anyone who commits suicide in the Matrix wakes up in the real world. Hmm...how terribly enthralling.

Shawn Watson There's not much plot to this Animatrix short, but the movies overcompensated for that so it's good to have a Matrix story sold on imagery and feeling.Remember the overeager kid from The Matrix Revolutions? This is the story of how he freed himself from un-real world and woke up. He feels alone and alienated, wondering why his dreams feel more real than his waking world.Cowboy Beebop director Shinichirô Watanabe uses abstract, experimental animation deliver the story. It's rough and features many pencil strokes, but it's good. Not the best Animatrix short, but worth watching.

TheOtherFool If the original Matrix got any criticism at all it was because of it's violence. After the shooting at Littleton, things only got worse (but then again, who wasn't blamed?). Kid's Story, one of the 9 animatrices, to me is more dangerous though.We follow the likes of 'the kid', who finds out the truth about The Matrix (via Neo). He escapes his classroom like Neo his booth, but finds too many agents in his way, so he... jumps...The next scene is at the funeral of the boy, and I was just thinking what a great self-reflecting movie this was (don't believe anything in the movies?), but in the end we find out the matrix really does exist and the boy is still alive in the real world.Sure it's just a cartoon, but committing suicide to escape from the so called real world... edgy... 5/10.

bones272 I enjoyed this short, the method of the animation gave it a surreal quality, which helped to convey how this kid felt about his initial question regarding dreams and reality.But after reading several comments here, I beg to differ that this kid in the animae short is the same kid that followed Neo around like a lost puppy.The kid in Reload was actually in the first movie, except that he was much younger. Remember the child Neo saw playing with the spoon as they both waited to see the Oracle? I believe those two are one in the same.As for the problem of age - who is to say that just because you are 24 years old in real life, that your representation within the Matrix is also 24 years old? You could very well be younger or older.