Let's be fair with The Animatrix. Some people here are criticizing it without knowing or taking into account that it's a compilation of several different films that were produced independently, and then were packed in the 10 DVD Box Matrix Special. So this was never meant to be a single film.
Apart of that, some of the stories bring you some small bits that complement the official Trilogy, for me the most important being the ones about the war between humans and robots, that's great. Also, the guys who message Zion about the attack, that's a very important complement. The rest are of the animations are more like curiosities, like the fact that exerting extreme physical effort in the matrix may trigger the actual physical body of a person, or how people reprogram the machines.
Other than the supportive information that helps you better see the big picture of the matrix, it's overall not very good. The art and animation are pretty terrible in all of the episodes except the first, and due to being separate films the style and production varies wildly, do they don't come together as a whole at all.
I still recommend it though, for the sake of knowing more about the matrix universe. You shouldn't watch it expecting it to be a great show, it will suck if you look at it as a proper show instead of a source of supplementary information about The Matrix