Final Flight of the Osiris and the Second Renaissance (both) for me.

The rest are all kind of...  bleh.  I know a lot of you liked Detective Story, but for me, the whole story felt very pointless.  Kid's Story would've been good had it not been drawn and animated so horribly.

The rest are neat, but I honestly can't make myself watch them that often.

I loved Beyond, FFOTO, Detective story and both Second Renaissance.

Second Renaissance.

Really throws the whole original Man/Machine war into context and explains what happend and why according to the Zion database. That and Matriculated gave the Machines more depth, something other than evil robot stereotypes.

I liked FFotO too, it was superbly animated and it was the link between The Matrix and Reloaded.

All the animatrix stories were good in their own way but these three are probably my favourites

I watched the Animatrix thoroughly today due to running out of interesting movies, so my list would have to be.

World Record - My favorite (minus funny dressed Agents) just because it shows how breaking the limitations of the Matrix is rare and just a pure show of raw willpower. The part when he "must not wake up" and even then the Agents have a hard time catching up with him as the world around him started to go into conflict with the fact he was going too fast, was probably the best part of the animation, as well as when he breaks the bonds of the wheelchair, again his raw willpower, asking to be freed.

Final Flight - Animation was great, story was great, hurr hurr women gi needs to come off during interlock

Next Ren Part I & II - Backstory on the Matrix = <3

The rest just don't really impress me.

I liked the Noir style of the Detective story, and I also liked where he started to go Agent mode, sort of like a, "Hey, he's a bluepill too, y'know." wake-up call. But I wasn't really feeling the whole "i r detective" self-narrative deal.

Beyond didn't really go into detail, just a worn-down place in the system where you apparently be trippin' balls.

Matriculated was really trippy, where apparently Machines can be converted to serve the way of Man like it used to be, which seemed to me a little more of a back-track than a step forward.

Program was okay, but go lolmxo to tell you that re-entering the Matrix is impossible/leads to Machines executing you.

Kid's Story was good. The animation at times looked like he was getting smeared across a wall, rather than going fast on his skateboard, but the whole self-substantiating thing/dying in the Matrix didn't make sense. I'd assume just like how Neo was seperated from his body, if he died in the Matrix he'd die in the Real, i.e. the link between mind and body being severed. Yet in this story, the Kid dies in the Matrix/buried and yet he's still kicking in the real world.

World Record

love the concept of being physicaly and mentaly powerful. The mind self extracts the body. 

So sic

I'd say Detective Story is my hands-down favorite

Second Renaissance.

Really throws the whole original Man/Machine war into context and explains what happend and why according to the Zion database. That and Matriculated gave the Machines more depth, something other than evil robot stereotypes.

I liked FFotO too, it was superbly animated and it was the link between The Matrix and Reloaded.

All the animatrix stories were good in their own way but these three are probably my favourites

Agreed.  (Although I was a Machinist from the middle of the first movie!)

Illyria

Hmm, I really liked Program and, secondly, Matriculated. Both were outside of the main story and they both really spoke to the human condition in the real world. That's what got me, their lives outside of the Matrix, with hours and hours to think about the state of mankind and the human race.

The philosophical aside, those two stories told me more about the world in which the Matrix exists than the somewhat-cliched Second Renaissance.

Agreed.  (Although I was a Machinist from the middle of the first movie!)

 

Illyria