Digimon - The Movie
by Mamoru Hosoda, Minoru Hosoda, Shigeyasu Yamauchi
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Actor: Bob Papenbrook, David Lodge, Doug Erholtz, Joshua Seth, Lara Jill MillerDirector: Mamoru Hosoda, Minoru Hosoda, Shigeyasu Yamauchi
Brand: Fox
Writer: Jeff Nimoy
Writer: Bob Buchholz
Producer: Makoto Shibazaki
Writer: Akiyoshi Hongo
Writer: Reiko Yoshida
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 82 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-02-06
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of Digimon - The Movie
DVD Review: This movie is in the Rookie stage and needs to Digivolve...
Summary: 1 Stars
The first time I watched the movie, I said, "huh?" when it was all over. It seemed like the American version of this movie crudely slapped snips of 3 of the Japanese movies together. Why can't the American version ever get it right? Ugh. Well, I would still LOVE to watch the subtitled version of the movies in the original Japanese language. The American version of the movie just seemed very disconnected when they would jump around in time and just slap simple, 2 sentence explainations for whatever had happened into the script. And what exactly happened to Kari and TK on the train? No explaination for what was happening to them was ever given. A lot of the plot (which seems to spew in all different directions) is unaccounted for or inadequately explained. It seems that Digimon: The Movie just took every possible fight scene from all 3 of the origial Japanese movies and haphazardly slapped them all together without relaying any of the character development that should have accompanied the fight scene. After a while it just made my head hurt, and I kept glancing at my watch and wondering how much longer the movie was going to last. My sisters are still asking me questions that I really have to labor to answer about the movie because it was indeed confusing. It took me 2 or 3 times viewing it and some internet research to finally come to some conjectures about what was cut out and what they were meaning to say. Very poorly done. This is just like what happened to Sailor Moon in the U.S. The people who owned the rights to it were sitting on a gold mine, and they blew it completely with bad scripting, cutting things out, changing the plot, and dumbing it down. Leave them as 3 seperate movies...it's not all that hard because that's the way it was originally done.The animation is another can of worms completley. The company who animated the TV series should also animate the movie. Having the look of the characters change in the movie was a little disturbing and made watching it just "that much" more painful. I like the big hands and feet and the big eyes. But the people who did the animation for this movie obviously wanted the complete opposite. It's just a little distracting to see all the characters drawn one way for 2 seasons and then quite differently for the official movie.
To make a long story short: stick with the original animators, give a little bit more to character/ storyline devlopment, and leave the movie as three seperate movies. The only reason I'm even rating this movie in the positive is that it has to deal with Digimon: Digital Monsters. Otherwise, it really made me mad and regretful that I had paid [...] to rent it from the video store.
I give this wretchedly done movie 1.4 - 2 stars.
Description of Digimon - The Movie
DIGIMON:MOVIE - DVD MovieLike the similar Pokémon craze, the animated Digimon TV series has spawned a full-length theatrical film. The two phenomena are similar: kids collect monsters and go on adventures. While Pokémon has a sense of odyssey and a wisp of a moral, Digimon is flat-out rough-and-tumble adventure. Can an adult figure out the digi-details of the digi-world? Here's a digi-shot. That world is full of evolving monsters that live and fight in their own ways. The digi-world and real world can intermix, and one of the portals is the Internet. So kids sit at their laptops and fight with their digi-monsters in an abstract environment that looks like something from Tron but with none of the cool. The first 50 of 83 minutes is backstory that takes place eight years earlier. So everyone is grown up (as the time frame leaps over all the original Digimon TV shows), and Digimon and humans interact on Earth. A bad digi-virus is bent on revenge, and it will take more than a laptop to defend the planet. That said, if the end of the world ever looms, a golden digi-egg will be a good thing to have. (Ages 6 to 12) --Doug Thomas
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