Digimon - The Movie
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Movie Reviews of Digimon - The Movie
Movie Review: Digimon is not a rip off of Pokemon, Digimon came first!
Summary: 4 Stars
I liked this movie. I'm a Digimon fan, and as such I thought the movie was pretty good, if a bit oddly put together. There's some definate missing parts, but it's still very good overall. The animation style is different from the T.V. show, it more "realistic". I liked the animation, though it is odd, and may not be everyone's cup of tea. And yes, Digimon came first. Digimon first appeared in Tomogachi toys called Digivices. The major differences between Pokemon and Digimon is Digimon is an adventure story, with a cohesive storyline that actually goes somewhere. The kids in Digimon are heroes out to save the world, their digimon are with them by choice and destiny, and are intelligent sentient creatures in their own right. Pokemon is a loosley tied together series of shorts involving a selfish quest to capture as many Pokemon as possible and train them to beat each other up. The kids are in it for themselves, and while they care about their Pokemon, they don't hesitate to throw them into a fight just to make themselves look good. Violence for the sake of violence. Whereas in Digimon, the monsters fight to protect one another and the world. Pokemon mindlessly do what they are trained to do, which is fight and act really cute. Their are many other smaller differences, but that's the main jist of it.
Oh yea, and Digimon are just WAY cooler.
Movie Review: Digimon is not a rip off of Pokemon, Digimon came first!
Summary: 4 Stars
I liked this movie. I'm a Digimon fan, and as such I thought the movie was pretty good, if a bit oddly put together. There's some definate missing parts, but it's still very good overall. The animation style is different from the T.V. show, it more "realistic". I liked the animation, though it is odd, and may not be everyone's cup of tea. And yes, Digimon came first. Digimon first appeared in Tomogachi toys called Digivices. The major differences between Pokemon and Digimon is Digimon is an adventure story, with a cohesive storyline that actually goes somewhere. The kids in Digimon are heroes out to save the world, their digimon are with them by choice and destiny, and are intelligent sentient creatures in their own right. Pokemon is a loosley tied together series of shorts involving a selfish quest to capture as many Pokemon as possible and train them to beat each other up. The kids are in it for themselves, and while they care about their Pokemon, they don't hesitate to throw them into a fight just to make themselves look good. Violence for the sake of violence. Whereas in Digimon, the monsters fight to protect one another and the world. Pokemon mindlessly do what they are trained to do, which is fight and act really cute. Their are many other smaller differences, but that's the main jist of it.
Oh yea, and Digimon are just WAY cooler.
Movie Review: It's good, but.....where's the rest?
Summary: 4 Stars
I love this film. Despite what everyone else says, I love it. Bear in mind that I'm a Digimon fan. But at the end of it I just felt as if I'd missed out on the fun. As you may know, the Digimon Movie was made up of the three Japanese films, all edited and slammed together. Really, you want to see all of the three films, not just the bits that they chose. And some bits in the last 'section' just don't make sense (the bit where Gatomon and Patamon warp-digivolve). But apart from that major fault, I thought the film was great- funny, with good music and plenty of action. But even so, I still wanna see the rest of them. I think Fox Kids made a mistake to try and combat the Pokemon films with this. It would have been better if they'd all been dubbed fully, and then released one by one. But still, doesn't look like that's gonna happen, so this (mostly) fills the Digimon gap for now. On the DVD, the 'Extra Features' are sparce too. And what is with the Anna Anaconda thing at the beginning?Movie Review: Fun but a mish-mash
Summary: 4 Stars
Okay, so don't get me wrong. I like the movie, it was really fun, and I've passed it around to other people. Wonderful animation, action, etc. However, I would like to note that it is not a movie.It feels like three OAV's, maybe. That explains the different styles of animation for each story (for the third story, they seem to have gotten more money, because it was film quality), and the different story lines. The thing that really bothered me was the naration over the story who's sole intent seemed on bringing the 3 episodes together by talking about characters nowhere in sight, and some asides tossed into the dialog. I assume fox did this so it could be released on the screen. I know the Japanese production company that did Digimon, and they like classical storylines.
So, yes, it was fun, but I suspect I might appreciate the original one better, and not have some imaginary thread tie them together.
Movie Review: Mainly For Digimon Fans
Summary: 4 Stars
I enjoyed this movies being a Digimon fan. If you don't know much about Digimon in the first place, this will be a very confusing movie. It's 3 compressed Japanese films so it skips through the backstory of the digi-destined and how they got there digimon partners, how both the new and second teams met, etc. They basically tried to put together the story of Willis, Kokomon, and the virus. Also, the anime in this movie is more like Dragon Ball Z and Sailor Moon, which is a different style of anime from the one on the Digimon show. The DVD doesn't have many extra features, just a Len music video and the movie trailer with other basic DVD options. Unless you're a big fan (which I am :), I'd just rent it. Oh, and I would've liked if they made a compressed version of the 1st and 2nd movie from Japan and then released the whole 3rd version seperately. Would've made for MUCH better movies.