riddick: dark fury

a kind of cool animated short story that ties pitch black and chronicles of riddick together. as i was watching it i kept thinking 'man, this looks like it was done by one of the guys who did a short film for 'the animatrix'!' and after a quick look at my dvd shelf, low and behold, it is! peter chung directed this short, as well as 'matriculated' on the animatrix collection. the story looks at how riddick and the other two survivors from the first movie make it off the planet only to be picked up by a mercenary ship. there are a few fights, which look pretty cool. they did a good job of integrating computer effects with old fashioned hand drawn animation. over all though, its a fairly meaningless story, and one that could have been told in a sentence or two at the beginning of 'the chronicles of riddick', they certainly didn't need to make a thirty five minute film to give us this info.