Just when you thought you had your Matrix collection complete, here comes a new DVD box set that puts your lovingly assembled trilogy to shame. Isn’t that always the case? Just in time for the holidays, Warner Home Video milks the franchise in grand style with today’s release of The Ultimate Matrix Collection, a 10-disc, extra-loaded box set that includes all three films and the fantastic animated spin-off, The Animatrix.
The Ultimate Matrix Collection offers five entirely new DVDs packed with fresh supplemental materials including two new audio commentaries on each film, Enter the Matrix videogame footage and more than 100 featurettes and documentaries. The set is priced at $79.92.
Of course, there also has to be the extra-special The Ultimate Matrix Collection Limited Edition, which includes a limited-edition Neo mini-bust figurine and an 80-page collector’s book. This one will set you back $129.92.
The Animatrix disc comes with making-of documentaries on each film, profiling the evolution of each one’s unique style through design and animatics. There are also biographical profiles of the various directors and animation producers involved, and a featurette titled Scrolls to Screen: The History and Culture of Anime, which explores the phenomenon of the art form through glimpses of the genre’s greatest achievements and the observations of creators, historians and other leaders in the field.
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