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Brief Summary
This video reviews the Blu-ray edition of "Digimon the Movie Collection One" from Discotek Media, which includes the first three Digimon movies: "Digimon Adventure," "Digimon Adventure: Our War Game," and "Digimon Adventure 02: Hurricane Touchdown!! / Transcendent Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals." The collection features the original Japanese versions of the films, a new English dub with returning cast members, and the original English-dubbed "Digimon: The Movie" remastered in HD. The review covers the packaging, disc contents, audio and subtitle options, bonus features, and a comparison with the original DVD release.
- The Blu-ray set includes the original Japanese versions of the first three Digimon movies, a new English dub with much of the original cast, and the original English-dubbed "Digimon: The Movie" in HD.
- The release features consistent spine design to match other Digimon sets, and the disc includes Japanese trailers, interviews, making-of features, a recap special, bloopers, and production art galleries.
- The new English dubs aim to balance faithfulness to the Japanese versions with elements that fans loved from the original English dubs.
Intro
The video introduces a review of the "Digimon the Movie Collection One" Blu-ray from Discotek Media, which contains the first three Digimon movies. These movies were originally released in North America as "Digimon: The Movie," a heavily edited and recut version of the three films. The Blu-ray set includes the original Japanese versions and a new English dub.
Overview
The reviewer discusses the cover art, noting it's not their favorite but acknowledges the difficulty in creating a merged poster for the three movies. The packaging indicates "Movie Collection One," implying future sets. The set includes both English and Japanese versions of the movies due to the extensive edits in the original dubs. The Blu-ray features the three movies in their original, uncut Japanese versions with a new English dub that reunites much of the original cast. The original "Digimon: The Movie" dub is also included, remastered in HD, along with bonus features. The set costs around $23.
Disc Contents
The disc menu features a montage of clips from the movies. The "Original Uncut" option allows viewers to play all three movies or select them individually, with options to switch between the new English dub and the original Japanese audio. Subtitles are presented similarly to the individual series sets, with original Japanese names used in the Japanese audio. On-screen text is styled to match the signs in the movie. Songs are subtitled with Japanese romanji and English transliteration. In "Our War Game," the subtitles change the surname from Yagami to Kamiya when switching from Japanese to English audio to match the dub. The English dub version includes a scratched-out sign that says "the Kamiya family". The third movie includes a subplot about the original DigiDestined getting kidnapped, which was cut from the American edit.
New English Dub
The reviewer appreciates the separate English credits reel that plays after the third movie, listing the production staff and voice cast. The dub of the first movie, "Digimon Adventure," is praised for capturing the energy of the Japanese version while incorporating elements that fans loved from the original English dub. The dub aims to balance faithfulness to the Japanese version with familiar jokes and lines from the original English dub. Bryce Papenbrook voices Red Greymon, taking over the role from his late father, Bob Papenbrook. Doug Erholtz voices Tai's father, a character who was cut from the original English dub. Joshua Seth returns as Tai, Laurel Miller as Kari, Peggy O'Neal as Biyomon, and other original cast members reprise their roles.
The dub for "Our War Game" is similar, incorporating iconic jokes and lines. Elsie Lovelock replaces Philece Sampler as Mimi, and Eli Farmer replaces Michael Lindsay as Joe, both due to their passing. Bradley Gareth replaces Michael Lindsay as Greymon and Joseph Pilato as MetalGreymon, also due to their passing. Jeremy Le replaces Tifanie Christon as T.K. Jason Marnocha replaces Michael Reisz as J.J. The reviewer praises the casting choices and the performances, noting that the new dubs are among the best Digimon dubs ever made.
The dub for the third movie is impressive, especially since much of it was cut from the original English dub. Jessica Peterson replaces Tifanie Christon as Yolei, and Melissa Fahn replaces Philece Sampler as Cody. Wayne Grayson replaces Dave Mallow as Armadillomon. Brian Donovan returns as Davis, and Bob Glouberman as Willis. The reviewer is impressed with the complete dub of this movie.
Extras
The Blu-ray includes Japanese trailers, a special interview with director Mamoru Hosoda and producer Haruki Ski about "Digimon Adventure" and "Our War Game," a making-of featurette for "Our War Game," a recap special produced for the English dub, and a blooper reel from the recording of the new English dubs. There are also production art and movie posters galleries.
DVD Comparison
The reviewer addresses whether to keep the original DVD if purchasing the Blu-ray. The DVD includes two items not on the Blu-ray: an "Angela Anaconda" short and the "Kids In America" music video by Len. The original DVD was in a pan and scan aspect ratio, while the Blu-ray is in 16x9. The Blu-ray is considered a significant upgrade.
Outro
The reviewer highly recommends the Blu-ray set for Digimon fans, praising the value, new dubs, presentation, and bonus features. It's considered one of the best disc releases of the year due to the amount of work put into it.
