Funny / The Matrix Resurrections

• The sheer mundanity of Neo's life as Thomas Anderson, including:
  • Playing some kind of VR game.
  • Watching an old kung-fu movie and reenacting a fight scene with all the grace of a buffalo (including at one point crashing into his coffee table).
  • Trying to push his finger through a bathroom mirror, probably thinking it would turn to liquid and try to suffocate him just like the last time he touched a mirror.
  • Neo relaxing in a bath... with a rubber ducky balanced on his head.
  • Reading toilet graffiti while taking a dump with a look on his face as if to say, "Kill me now."
  • There's a figurine of Blake Belladonna in his office. Neo is a RWBY fan, and his favorite character is the ninja catgirl.
• Bugs. Just the idea of a Matrix character being named after Bugs Bunny (who is a grey and white rabbit). Or alternatively, a programming error. Or both.
  • And yes, at one point while trying to medically stabilize a re-freed Neo, she actually asks, "What's up, Doc?"
• Bugs reacts to being caught by a bunch of Agents by just politely trying to leave. When this predictably fails, THEN she runs like hell.
  • Visually it's a gag but it makes sense in context: Bugs had hacked into a simulation within the simulation, re-enacting a mix of Neo's subconscious memories of the first film. The current Matrix doesn't even use Agents like this anymore. So Bugs sort of hoped that because she wasn't part of this construct, they'd just ignore her.
• Bugs wrecks a building mounted sign with the name "Anderson's" and slogan "For those who love to eat shit".
  • Before that, when modal "Trinity" runs away from the agents, there is a slogan on the rooftop reading "Sabor a mierda"^note Shit flavored.
• Once Morpheus takes a red pill, he immediately starts acting loopy and leads Bugs straight to other agents.
  • Morpheus popping out of a door in the ground, right behind the remaining agents. He poorly attempts to appear sober to his fellow agents, but only manages to hold it together until one of them addresses him by name, making him burst out laughing as Bugs pulls him back through the door and a chase scene begins.
• Thomas Anderson's desk is lined with decor that reflects back on previous films, or just wants to troll the viewer. There is an arm set up with the middle Finger up, a "Game of the year for 1999" award for "The Matrix" for Deus Machina. Tom's demeanor when we first see him is one of pure boredom. As is Smith's office - including one of Weaving's Smith's head statue - with the head disfigured by an invisible punch.
• Per Waypoint's analysis: Thomas Anderson went to the Game Awards, and then wanted to kill himself. Take That! Keighley.
• A business associate says that he absolutely loved the Matrix in junior high to Thomas Anderson, who created it. Something that understandably makes him feel old as hell.
• Thomas Anderson goes into an office where it's explained that Matrix 4 will be made with or without him, so he might as well get on board. The reality subtext, being as the movie is the real-life Matrix 4, cannot be lost on anyone in the audience.
  • The various video game developers went over what they loved about the Matrix games and their meaning. Trying to dissect what made the games so good and their hidden ideas. Which they are notably doing with the creator a foot away from them. Jonathan Groff says that Lana was drawing from real life experience.
  • And to drive home the metafiction? The parent company for Thomas' company is Warner Bros..
  • Just the fact that the executive producer's pitch to the developer team on what they want in their new game is for it to be "original and fresh", which is exactly the kind of cliched corporate hype one would expect from a backer who's trying to milk the Cash-Cow Franchise one more time.
  • Also, once you realise that Neo's boss is also his ultimate Arch-Enemy, it's comical to hear Agent Smith of all people uttering the term "O-M-G". And that his office has a bust of his prior incarnation - with its face reeling from the impact of Neo's fist a la the end of "Revolutions". No wonder Smith was angry when he regained his memories.
• The revelation that Neo looks like, charitably, a homeless fisherman to most people. Even Smith thought it was hilarious. Made even funnier by the fact that the actor who provided this image is Carrie-Anne Moss' real-life husband.
• (New) Morpheus' first meets Neo saying "At last.", a Call-Back to the first thing he says to him in the first film. Then he sheepishly adds "couldn't resist the Call-Back", before quickly observing that his first meeting with Neo was so incredibly dramatic while now he's just chatting with him in a bathroom.
  Morpheus: Tragedy or farce?^* Itself a Karl Marx Shout-Out.
  • And later...
  Morpheus: Time is always against us, etcetera, etcetera. No one can be told what the Matrix is, blah, blah, blah.
• Morpheus presents Neo the Red Pill, Blue Pill choice, but elaborates that if he chooses the blue pill, he'll have to take another and another, forever. Neo's thought of going back to his ordinary life and his subsequent reaction make pretty clear that it's actually not much of a choice.
  Neo: Fuck.
• With the reveal that Io actually has real food, Neo and Niobe reminisce about how they used to have to eat "snot", a nice call-back to the first movie.
• Neo thanks Bugs for breaking him out, and she admits she's doing it in part because the only way out of Niobe's doghouse is getting Neo his "mojo" back. Neo asks what happens if he can't, and Sequoia cheerfully admits, "Then we're all fucked."
• The Merovingian shows up for one scene to rant bombastically at the heroes while dressed in rags. Their under-reaction to his insanity (leaving casually when he's done yelling) just underscores the ridiculousness of the moment.
  • His rant is even more deliciously hilarious and nonsensical because it's all about how much he hates unoriginal remakes and social media. And texting, as perfectly put with the line below.
  Merovingian: We had grace! We had style, we had conversation — not this BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP!
  • Just Neo's utterly annoyed muttering of "Oh, God." when he sees him again.
  • Even Smith gets annoyed, then says, "What the Merv is trying to say..."
• When Niobe asks for volunteers to go on a dangerous mission to rescue Trinity, Bugs is the first to volunteer... only to get shot down because Bugs is the only captain Niobe is ordering to go on the mission. Then, with a straight face, Bugs immediately informs Niobe that being ordered to go was no longer necessary... because she is volunteering.
• Neo tries to fly, with the music getting more dramatic for a moment as the ground warps... but he's only able to manage a little hop.
  Shepherd: I don't suppose you can still fly?
  Neo: [creates a small ripple on the ground and jumps with his hand up, only to fall completely normally; Beat] Yeah, that's not happening.
  • Later, they manage it anyway.
  Neo: Are you doing this? Because I'm not doing this!
• Following a moment of Awesome on Neo's part, Sequoia and Lumin8's reactions are to fist-bump each other. Particularly hilarious when considering how fearsome the non-rogue machines are.
• Trinity's first reaction to being freed from being Brainwashed and Crazy is to be upset at the fact she was named Tiffany in the Matrix.
• Neo and Trinity enter the Analyst's office by blowing a hole through his window, while he continues to casually sip his tea. Neo gently pets the Analyst's cat, Deja Vu, while Trinity repeatedly hits the Analyst hard enough to leave gory injuries, then "resets" him using her new powers so that she can continue hitting him. That the Analyst deliberately continues provoking her despite his injuries makes it even better.
  • The fact the cat is named Deja Vu.
• The Stinger, featuring the video game developers who are still brainstorming ideas for The Matrix 4. Two of them decide that movies and video games are a thing of the past. What is the future, you may ask? Cat videos, segueing into their pitch of... "The Catrix!"

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