Had an interesting weekend, went to St. Louis is go to Six Flags on Friday, ended up going to the Science Center and Matrix II. Both could be considered good substitutions. Compared to what others have said, Matrix 2 is actually a pretty good movie, after you get over the first 20 minutes when Neo and Trinity can’t keep their hands off eachother. I guess that was suppose to let us know how much they were in love.

One of the reasons I enjoyed the movie was that it continued on the theme that was orginal to the first movie. What happens all too often in sequels is that the producers/ directers take what made the movie a hit the first time and splice together something with double those particular elements, while forgetting to work on an interesting plot line. A prime example is Batman and its sequals. The first two were pretty good. However, subsequent movies quickly turned into powerpuff, smash bash, get the girls movies. Which fell quite flat on the interest factor.

If you’re so inclinded in considering if it is true to the original plot, consider what the plot is based upon. At least part of the plot line seems to be based in Roman & Greek, Gnostic and Christian stories. One indication are character names…

Morpheus – The god of dreams in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Neo – new and different or new and abnormal.
Trinity – In most Christian faiths, the union of three divine persons, in one person.

Niobe – The daughter of Tantalus who, after boasting that she had more children than Leto, suffered the killing of her own children by Artemis and Apollo, and turned to stone while bewailing their loss.

Persephone – The daughter of Demeter and Zeus who was abducted by Hades but rescued by her mother and thereafter spent six months of the year on earth and six months in the underworld.

Merovingian – Of or pertaining to the first Frankish dynasty in Gaul or France. — n. One of the kings of this dynasty.

Seraph – The first of the nine orders of angels in medieval angelology. A celestial being having three pairs of wings.

oh ya and there was the KeyMaker.. stong tie to ghostbuster in that sequence.