TLDR;
This video reviews the 2000 film "Digimon: The Movie," a compilation of three shorter Japanese films that were localized and stitched together by Saban. The review covers the changes made during localization, including the addition of a narrative thread involving a new character named Willis, the alteration of plot points, and the replacement of the original Japanese soundtrack with American pop songs. The reviewer expresses disappointment with the final product, criticizing its lack of narrative cohesion and the butchering of the original films' storylines.
- The movie is a compilation of three Japanese Digimon short films.
- Saban localized the films, adding new elements and changing the story.
- The reviewer criticizes the lack of cohesion and the changes made to the original material.
Intro [0:02]
The video introduces the concept of "Digimon: The Movie" as a competitor to Pokémon in the late 90s. The reviewer recalls Digimon's origins as a competitor to Tamagotchi, its anime series, and its initial plan to end after defeating the main villain. However, due to its popularity, the series continued with a sequel season called "Adventure Zero Two." The reviewer mentions the release of the Pokémon movie "Museum Strikes Back" in 1999 and Saban's attempt to capitalize on its success with "Digimon: The Movie" in 2000.
Poster Analysis [2:38]
The reviewer analyzes the movie's poster, pointing out several inconsistencies and confusing elements. The poster features characters from the "Zero Two" cast, despite their limited role in the film. It also includes the character Rhiamon with his partner Davis, along with Magdmon, an advanced form of Vimon, which may have confused viewers unfamiliar with the series' evolution. The reviewer questions the presence of two similar-looking Digimon, Terriermon and Lotmon, on the poster, with Lotmon appearing "evil" despite not being in the movie. The original kids are on the poster using their zero two designs, but they don't appear in the third act.
Angelina Anaconda Short [5:38]
Before the movie, there's an "Angelina Anaconda" short where Angelina and her friends go to the movie theater to watch the Digimon movie. Angelina imagines herself battling her rival for taking the seats in front of her and intentionally blocking her view. The reviewer expresses a lack of fondness for Angelina Anaconda, a character from Fox Kids/ABC Family.
Act 1 [6:49]
Act 1 introduces a younger Tai and Kari, who encounter a Digimon emerging from their computer that hatches into a buttermilk sauce gourmand, which eventually evolves into a crayon that protects them from a paired mod attacking their neighborhood. The reviewer notes the film's notorious cuts, primarily for time, such as shortening the scene of their catches car mod around. The scene where grandma pretty much obliterates one of paramount's wings with his no blast was also cut.
Act 2 [8:54]
Act 2 takes place after the end of the original Digimon season. A viral Digimon named Terramon has appeared on the internet and is consuming so much to hear that it causes problems with the real world. Tai and Izzy descend into the internet to destroy it. Matt and his little brother TK are the only two available to help. The reviewer notes the debut of some pretty awesome digimon like the caramel line. The abort mod causing a nuclear missile to be launched towards the new distance neighborhood simply for the laws. The scene where the important needs to be slowed down by incoming emails from kids all over the world is also canon to the anime.
Act 3 [13:32]
Act 3 is the part of the movie that got the most butchered by liberalization. The reviewer feels like three does deserve the recap treatment because it is quite a bit different. The reviewer believes this takes place either after or during the digimon never already.
Act 3 - Original Film vs. Dub [15:05]
In the dub, Kari tells us New York is visiting Mimi, but Mimi never shows up in the third act of the dub anyway. In the original film, Mimi being abducted was what sparked the conflict. She was abducted by a soccer beast called coco ma. Davis, Cody, and Elite meet up with us by chance when they're editing right in the truck and managed to befriend him interior mod. The digit doesn't demand to know who when to go on is and why he seems to have a particular interest in Willis. It turns out when this was just a little tight, you could see the dude bad hats too. When diaboromon's body was destroyed by omnimod, his corrupted data appeared in the real world, infecting him with the corrupted data and causing dopamine to become when to go on. In the original film, pokemon was never infected by the virus that created the lives aboriginal.
Act 3 - Original Film [17:51]
In the original film, Willis does have a connection with the original eight to descend, just not the one this movie would have you believe. In his unstable mind and an ability to understand that the humans age and grow up, Wendy the mind has been seeking the bliss he knew and abducting everyone with a dizzy right he can find and taking them to the dimension he was whisked away to. The dub decided just to focus on Willis trying to get back to Colorado because he's been interpreting Wendy delmont saying go back as in go back to the place where he was infected by the virus.
Act 3 - Climax [18:52]
Willis knows that the only way to end when I go on suffering is to destroy him but can't bring himself to do it until reassured that he's on a lot of this. The digidestined and when to go on fight. During the fight, retrieved to run around one of the songs from the dead whenever a fight is happening. Anthony divolves again into a corrupted form of terubimon and now being a maker he just one shots of the digimon back under the rookie forms.
Act 3 - Endings [20:26]
In the dope, the kids talk about it even though two months by couldn't survive the battle digimon never really die and who does this reunite with winnie come on who's in the smash mouth song. In the original film, we are simply told that the older kids were free during the dimension when the mom was keeping them in and with us finds pokemon city egg.
Final Thoughts [24:15]
The reviewer concludes that while they still like some aspects of the movie, they cannot overlook the missed potential and the butchering of the source material. The reviewer enjoyed the chemistry between Joshua Seth and one of his time easily respectively in act 2. The reviewer says that the movie isn't god awful but they really would have to be a kid who doesn't want to think critically yet warfare pair of the stone devices to get any enjoyment out of this.