StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

GazerRise Fantastic!

Tacticalin An absolute waste of money

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Gavin Cresswell (gavin-thelordofthefu-48-460297) Aside from watching some episodes from a great anime show called "Pokemon" I saw another show that came out before the later "Yugioh" known as Digimon. When I saw some of the episodes, I actually liked the show along with it's later seasons. It was like a mix between Tron and Pokemon with some great digital devices that can transform little creatures into huge monsters. So, when I heard that 20th Century Fox was going to make a movie out of the show, I saw it and I liked as a kid.As an adult, I still love it and I would consider it also underrated (just like Yugioh The Movie). It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good film. However, there are some flaws that I might add. First one is the animation. It had some nice colorful backgrounds, but it's editing was somewhat clunky for itself. Second and third are the rushed pacing and it's lack of storytelling (despite it's decent enough premise). I guess they kind of focused the action with the monsters and had little time to develop the characters.On the bright side, it had some very decent characters, some great new digital monsters (Omnimon was my favorite digital monster due to the heart and belief of all the people from their e-mails), some great action, and a great soundtrack (with my favorite being the Digi-Rap). The voice acting for this movie is pretty decent. Not great, but still good.Overall, Digimon The Movie isn't a masterpiece, but not as bad as some say it is. I'm sure younger kids will like it if they can watch the show as well as anybody in the anime manga genre. In short, flawed, but a pretty good movie.

xamtaro It is no secret by now that this so called "movie" based on the famous "Digimon" anime series is actually a combination of 3 separate Digimon OVA short films. Remember what Robotech did with Macross, Southern Cross and Mospeada? Digimon the movie does the same, only with less effort made to keep up the illusion of the 3 separate stories being 1 coherent tale. While long time fans will cry foul of the show once they hear of the numerous cuts made to the original OVAs, the American "Digimon the movie" never did aim for the otakus. The target audience for this movie is no doubt the kids who have watched Saban's adaptation of the Digimon anime series.On first viewing, it is easy to mistake this show for an actual "made in America" animated movie. The art and animation style is very different from the TV series and in fact follows more of the western animation conventions than Japanese anime. For example, the level of detail in the artwork is painfully low, with characters being just simple outlines with flat colors without even simple shadows or clothing folds. The characters' eyes are smaller with less of that "anime shine", and the designs have been simplified somewhat. However, the animation is a lot more fluid and expressive. Movements are shown in full with little of the usual cost cutting measures that anime uses such as repeating stock footage or panning the camera over a still background. Not exactly "movie" level animation, especially when compared to other theatrical animated movies, but nonetheless satisfactory.The combination of Three OVAs naturally translate to 3 loosely connected acts told from the narrative standpoint of Kari, one of the main characters. The first act taking place "eight years ago", details the first encounter between the Kamiya siblings, Tai and Kari, and digimon. One day a mysterious egg appears from out of their computer and soon hatches into a cute bubble blowing creature. The children decide to keep it while not letting their parent find out, but the creature mutates overnight into a more monstrous lizard-like form. What follows is a devastating battle in the streets of their neighborhood between two ferocious Digimon, a battle only hinted at in the TV series.Now this first act seems rather unnecessary. It has nothing to do with the actual plot of the movie and serves nothing more than to introduce those who are not familiar with the Digimon franchise to the Kamiya siblings and a few core concepts. A very refreshing thing was the re-interpretation of "Digital Monsters" as scary monstrous beasts, a stark contrast to their less threatening portrayal in the TV series.THe second act is possibly the heart and soul of this movie. Four years after the Kamiyas' first digimon encounter and a short time after the events of the first Digimon TV series, Izzy the computer genius discovers a computer virus that is actually an evolving digimon. As Tai and Izzy race to gather the digidestined for one final battle, their digimon buddies must enter the internet and destroy the virus digimon before it becomes too powerful. The stakes get raised once the virus, calling itself Diaboromon, hacks into servers all over the world turning all computers crazy. Society gets thrown into chaos and the technology that even the digidestined take for granted, such as emails and telephone, now becomes the source of their downfall.Truly epic in scale, Digimon: The movie's second act has both surface level thrills and deeper emotional themes. There is a nice subtext satiring society's dependence on technology and the dehumanizing effect of internet communication (a theme that director Mamoru Hosoda expounded upon in 2010's "Summer Wars" anime movie). It is in this segment where the English script shines the most. Witty in-jokes and word puns pepper the energetic dialog delivered by a fine cast of voice actors who masterfully grow into their roles.So enjoyable was the Diaboromon segment, right up to its awesome climax involving a brand spanking powerful new digimon taking on gazillions of diaboromon clones, that it is regrettable that Digimon: The Movie had to end on an extremely weak note.The third segment takes place in "present day" and it involves the remnants of the diaboromon virus from four years ago returning and infecting a digimon called Kokomon. Kokomon is one half of a set of twins. He and his twin brother Terriermon belonged to an American kid called Willis. The digidestined from the Digimon season 2 get drawn into this conflict as Kokomon becomes increasingly powerful. But unknown even to them, is that Willis' digimon twins are somehow connected to the Kamiya's first digimon encounter 8 years ago and Diaboromon's emergence four years ago.This act is where it all falls apart. Not only is it the weakest in terms of story and its link to the previous two acts, but the writing seems rushed. Jokes that were supposed to sound timely and witty end up being really out of place and only serve to spoil the otherwise serious tone of the show. As the act reaches its climax, the editing done to the scenes becomes even more slip shod leaving many gaping plot holes. Even the battle sequences have been edited to the point of incoherence. And that ending? All too sudden and honestly, a little freaky especially when taken in context with the music.Whether a change for the better or worse, the music incorporates many American pop tunes that, save for one, effectively complements the scenes they are coupled with. At least the catchy music is a good distraction from the ear grating "digi-rap" that opens the film and the other shortcomings of the movie.Fans of Digimon, especially the Japanese digimon series, would undoubtedly give this a miss. It is recommended however that one at least watch the second act of this movie just for the fun of it.

David D Eval Well, it's hard to say if this movie is just awesome, just good or awful. It fully depends on what you like, and don't forget it's an animated movie. I first watched this movie about 8 years ago (I'm still pretty young). Back then I couldn't review it, but after seeing it again, I think I can.It surprises me how well this is animated. Seriously, it was almost scary how detailed it was. Almost every move had a different detail, like when Omnimon was fighting Diaboromon. Maybe that's a bad example, but I couldn't think of others. Although I must admit the graphics self were a bit simplified, like the shading, the animation totally made up for it.As for the soundtracks, they were quite the same as the music from season 1 and 2, well, mostly season 2. There may be one or two tracks who were new, but I can't recall. At least the music was good and it all fit well together.Alright, now for the movie itself (yup, I'm not done), and I mean the script and stuff. Man, that's really hard. The main reason is that it's quite different from the original series. Not that the story has changed, maybe slightly, but it's a lot more dramatic then you expect from a regular Digimon episode. The fights had a lot more action in it, and were much more "scarier". If I was a little kid, I could actually get nightmares from it. The sound effects also play a big role, because they sound a lot more destructive. But what really makes it awesome, as I call it, are the virus-kind Digimon, like Diaboromon.Man, those guys are scary. Those eyes, bodies, colors... Everything on them is freakin' weird. But that's what makes it so cool. It's the horror in the monsters what makes it so cool to watch. "The hell with nightmares, as long as I can watch this movie!". Not that I would say that of course if I was like 7 or 8.There are some other points like the length that surprised me. The movie is 88 minutes long, which means (duh) it's 1 hour and 28 minutes long. That doesn't sound like much, but believe me, it is. It's mostly because there's always something going on. Humor or action, it doesn't matter. By the way, most animated movies are as long as that, but most of them have those stupid unnecessary scenes in them. I won't give any examples.Okay, some flaws are in this movie, I will sum the stuff up: -The drawings are a bit simplified. -The endings a bit cut-off and strange -The story went a bit off, there were some things not mentioned in the series who were mentioned in the movie only, which makes the story a bit twisted, but still nice.And some good things: -Kickass animation! -Nice storyline -Dramatic awesome fighting scenes. -Lots of humoristic parts.I think that's all I need to say about this movie. It's fun if you like anime, but even if you don't, give it a try. I'm not a real Digimon fan, but I just love anime.PS: My personal downside is the fact that they're using a Windows rip- off, and even mention Bill Gates! As an Apple-fan, I don't really like that. Although it's an old movie of course.

brmuffinremix I watched the Digimon Movie when I was a kid and loved it. I watched it a couple days ago and loved it...Except for the second half. What the hell was wrong with the second half? The movie was all dramatic and epic about a deadly virus and the end of the world and the 'ultimate Digimon' but then it went to complete crap of 7 pussy Digimon saying puns while fighting a stupid looking monkey Digimon with guns on its chest. And a stupid big oaf and a blonde boy dancing to the overly used 'All-Star' song by Smash Mouth.But I give it a 9 for the amazing first half. You can tell that the first and second half must have been written by different people, for the first half seems to be intense and interesting. Unlike the second half.I'm going to pretend the last 30 minutes of this movie never existed.