Digimon: The Movie Explained

Digimon: The Movie
Director:
Screenplay:
Producer:Terri-Lei O'Malley
Starring:
Cinematography:Shigeru Ando
Editing:
  • Douglas Purgason
  • Gary A. Friedman
Music:
  • Udi Harpaz
  • Amotz Plessner
Studio:
Distributor:20th Century Fox
Runtime:88 minutes
Country:
  • Japan
  • United States
Language:English
Budget:$5 million[1]
Gross:$16.6 million

Digimon: The Movie is a 2000 animated film adaptation produced by Saban Entertainment and distributed by 20th Century Fox as part of the Digimon franchise. The film used footage from the short films Digimon Adventure (1999), [2] (2000), and Digimon Adventure 02: Digimon Hurricane Touchdown!! / Transcendent Evolution! The Golden Digimentals (2000), while the events of the film take place during the first two seasons of Digimon: Digital Monsters.

Production of the film began in 2000 after Fox sought to bring a feature film to the Digimon franchise. Only three seasonal short films were produced for the series in Japan, which Fox was contractually obligated to produce as one cohesive film by Toei Animation. Due to the drastically different plots and budget restraints, more than 40 minutes of scenes from the individual Japanese films were cut to save time and introduced several changes in tone, dialogue, and plot.[3] Owing to the number of changes made, it is considered an original work by the press.[4]

Digimon: The Movie was released in the United States on October 6, 2000, by 20th Century Fox and was a box office success, grossing over $16 million worldwide (equivalent to over $29 million in 2022[5] ) against a production budget of $5 million. Despite negative critical reviews, the film had a more positive reception from both fans and audiences, and has since garnered a small cult following.

Plot

See main article: Digimon Adventure (1999 TV series) and Digimon Adventure 02.

Angela Anaconda short

See also: Angela Anaconda. Angela Anaconda and her friends line up to watch Digimon: The Movie, but Nannette and her friends cut in line and Mrs. Brinks blocks her view of the screen. Angela imagines herself Digivolving into Angelamon to defeat Mrs. Brinks and Nannette, before the audience all realize they are in the wrong theater and leave.

Eight Years Ago

See main article: Digimon Adventure (film). Tai and Kari Kamiya find a Digi-egg that appears from their computer, which hatches and Digivolves into Agumon. Agumon wanders into the night with Kari as Tai pursues them. The neighborhood watches as a Parrotmon hatches from a second Digi-egg in the sky. When Parrotmon attacks Tai and Kari, Agumon protects them by digivolving to Greymon. When Greymon is knocked out, Tai reawakens him with Kari's whistle and he defeats Parrotmon, but, following the battle, they both disappear. Those who witnessed this would later become the DigiDestined, children chosen to protect the Digital and real worlds.

Four Years Later

See main article: Digimon Adventure: Our War Game!. An infected Digi-egg appears on the Internet and hatches into a Digimon who devours computer code, causing chaos to the world's computer systems. Izzy and Tai are warned by Gennai and a boy from Colorado called Willis, who tells them to find a way to slow the Digimon down. Their Digimon, Agumon and Tentomon, enter the internet but are no match for the newly-Digivolved Infermon. Tai tries to recruit backup, but can only reach Matt and T.K., whose Digimon are also defeated by Infermon's final form, Diaboromon.

Diaboromon duplicates himself and infects the Pentagon's computers, launching nuclear missiles at Colorado and the DigiDestined's neighborhood which will impact in ten minutes. After WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon are defeated by the multitude of Diaboromon, Tai and Matt become digital and enter their computers. Through the collective power of everyone watching, WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon are revived and DNA Digivolve into Omnimon. Omnimon destroys the Diaboromon copies and Izzy, realizing that e-mails being sent in from people around the world watching on their computers have been slowing their Digimon down, redirects them to the original Diaboromon to freeze him in place long enough for Omnimon to destroy him. The missiles are disabled, but the same virus that created Diaboromon tracks down Willis and corrupts his Digimon, Kokomon.

Present Day

While visiting Mimi Tachikawa in New York City, T.K. and Kari witness a battle between Willis, Terriermon, and a corrupted Kokomon who tells Willis to "go back". Willis returns home to Colorado, followed by T.K. and Kari, who informs Davis, Yolei and Cody to meet them there.

Davis, Yolei and Cody hitch-hike to Colorado, where they meet Willis and Terriermon on the way. Willis reveals his history with Diaboromon and that the same virus has infected Kokomon. Willis vows that he must confront Kokomon himself, but Terriermon and Davis offer him support and solidarity. In the final battle with Kokomon's Mega form, the DigiDestined are overpowered until Kari, T.K., Angemon and Angewomon intervene. Angewomon and Angemon release Golden Digi-Eggs to Davis and Willis, allowing Veemon and Terriermon to Golden Armor Digivolve to Magnamon and Rapidmon. Kokomon de-ages all the DigiDestined, and they realize that "go back" meant to go back in time to when the virus first attacked. The two Golden Digimon are swallowed by Kokomon and destroy the virus from within, killing Kokomon in the process. After bidding the DigiDestined farewell, Willis and Terriermon find Kokomon's Digi-egg on a beach.

Voice cast

See also: List of Digimon Adventure characters.

CharacterVoice
Tai KamiyaJoshua Seth
Matt IshidaMichael Reisz
Izzy IzumiMona Marshall
Sora TakenouchiColleen O'Shaughnessey
Joe KidoMichael Lindsay
Mimi TachikawaPhilece Sampler
T.K. TakaishiWendee Lee ("Eight Years Ago" & "Four Years Later")
Doug Erholtz ("Present Day")
Kari KamiyaLara Jill Miller
AgumonTom Fahn
Michael Lindsay (Greymon)
Joseph Pilato (MetalGreymon)
Lex Lang (WarGreymon)
GabumonKirk Thornton
TentomonJeff Nimoy
BiyomonTifanie Christun
GomamonR. Martin Klein
PalmonAnna Garduno
PatamonLaura Summer
Dave Mallow (Angemon, Seraphimon)
GatomonEdie Mirman
Davis MotomiyaBrian Donovan
Yolei InoueTifanie Christun
Cody HidaPhilece Sampler
WillisBob Glouberman
VeemonDerek Stephen Prince
Steven Jay Blum (Flamedramon, Raidramon, Magnamon)
HawkmonNeil Kaplan
Steven Jay Blum (Poromon)
ArmadillomonRobert Axelrod
Dave Mallow (Upamon)
Tom Fahn (Digmon)
TerriermonMona Marshall
Michael Sorich (Gargomon)
Lex Lang (Rapidmon)
Red GreymonBob Papenbrook
Peggy O'Neal (Botamon)
Brianne Siddall (Koromon)
Michael Sorich (Agumon)
ParrotmonDavid Lodge
DiaboromonPaul St. Peter
Brianne Siddall (Kuramon)
KokomonPaul St. Peter
Wendee Lee (little Kokomon)
GennaiMike Reynolds

Development

Background

See main article: List of Digimon films. Toei Animation had animation fairs every spring and summer with featurettes showcasing their current animated titles.[3] [6] The first Digimon short film was Digimon Adventure, directed by Mamoru Hosoda in his directorial debut[7] and released on March 6, 1999, for the Toei Animation Spring 1999 Animation Fair. Production precedes final decisions on the 1999 television series of the same name and is subject to several conditions imposed by the Digimon media franchise executives.[8] The event alongside Yu-Gi-Oh! short and Dr. Slump : Arale's Surprise Burn grossed .[9]

The second short film, [2] was originally released on March 4, 2000, for the Toei Animation Spring 2000 Animation Fair and later served as the inspiration for director Mamoru Hosoda's 2009 film Summer Wars and 2021 film Belle.[10] The event alongside One Piece : The Movie grossed .[11] The film's ending theme song is by AiM.[12]

was released on July 8, 2000, for the Toei Animation Summer 2000 Animation Fair. It was directed by Shigeyasu Yamauchi. The film was screened in two parts, with Ojamajo Doremi #: The Movie screening in between. Only four months separated the release of Our War Game! and this production based on the current season airing in Japan; Toei Animation rejected a script initially green-lighted, considered "too sappy, too depressing" and not enough "action-oriented, pop" by the Japanese studio, a dozen scripts were elaborated and presented in a hurry. The event grossed, the movie did not meet the expected reception of fans and critics.[13] [14] The film's ending theme song is by AiM.[15]

Pre-production

Several animation critics speculated that Fox had wanted to replicate the success of the first two Pokémon films by releasing a feature film for Digimon as well.[3] [16] [17] The only films produced for Digimon at that time were Digimon Adventure (1999), Digimon Adventure: Our War Game![2] (2000), and Digimon Adventure 02: Part I: Digimon Hurricane Landing!! / Part II: Transcendent Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals (2000), which were all seasonal featurette films.[3] The films were originally planned to be released as separate theatrical films, until Fox settled on releasing them as a singular film.[18]

Around Q2 1999, when production for the English dub of Digimon Adventure had concluded, writers Jeff Nimoy and Bob Buchholz were offered to write Digimon: The Movie while negotiating their contracts to return to write for the show's second season.[18] Nimoy stated that he was concerned about combining the plot of Digimon Hurricane Landing!! / Transcendent Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals, particularly because of its slow pacing and introduction of eight new characters that were not in the first two films.[18] He had proposed to Haim Saban to use the Digimon Adventure and Our War Game! and release the third film separately as a direct-to-video film or as a DVD extra.[19] [18] Nimoy also stated that producer Terri-Lei O'Malley suggested using Our War Game! and Digimon Hurricane Landing!! / Transcendent Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals, and releasing the first film as a DVD extra or television special, reasoning that the animation style of the first film did not match the last two.[18] However, all suggestions were overruled and they were forced to include all three films out of contractual obligations with Toei Animation.[18] Nimoy had been disappointed with this decision, and it was one of the factors that led him and Buchholz into leaving the writing team near the end of Digimon Adventure 02s run in North America.[19]

Writing

Nimoy and Buchholz first rearranged footage from Digimon Adventure, Our War Game!, and Digimon Hurricane Landing!! / Transcendent Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals to outline the overall plot of Digimon: The Movie.[18] As Nimoy and Buchholz noticed that Digi-eggs were a recurring image in all three films, they used that to connect their narratives.[18] After editing the footage and sending it to post-development, they began writing the script for the film.[18] Originally, Nimoy had Tai narrate, but as Tai did not make an appearance in the third part of the movie, he changed it to Kari.[19]

In addition, Nimoy and Buchholz rewrote Digimon Hurricane Touchdown!! / Transcendent Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals to include Willis being involved in Diaboromon's creation.[20] [19] As the three films were respectively 20, 40, and 60 minutes long, footage was condensed to fit 85 minutes.[3] [6] Digimon Adventure was used as basis for the "Eight Years Ago" sequence, Our War Game! in the "Four Years Later" sequence, and Digimon Hurricane Landing!! / Transcendent Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals in the "Present Day" sequence.[3] [21] Digimon Hurricane Landing!! / Transcendent Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals was heavily cut, including a subplot featuring the older DigiDestined being captured and de-aged by Wendigomon.[21]

Alongside of that, the writing is in the style of the animated series, with Japanese cultural differences removed and North American jokes inserted.[22] [23] One particular example of a cultural difference being removed was that, in Digimon Hurricane Landing!! / Transcendent Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals, the main characters hitchhiked across the United States.[22] When writing the jokes, Nimoy and Buchholz worked backwards by coming up with a punchline and writing the set-up later.[18] An early version of the official website listed Willis' name as his name in the Japanese version, Wallace,[24] until it was changed to "Willis" in the final version.[25]

The Angela Anaconda short at the beginning of the film was later re-released as an episode in the television series titled "Good Seats" on January 15, 2001, with all dialogue mentioning Digimon removed.[26]

Release and marketing

Prior to the release of Digimon: The Movie, the film led to a dispute between Saban Entertainment and the Screen Actors Guild. The Screen Actors Guild negotiated for actors contracted under them to be paid residuals over home video and subsequent television broadcasts, as they felt Digimon: The Movie was considered an original work due to the dialogue deviating from the original script.[27]

Taco Bell promoted Digimon: The Movie the summer before the film's release via a summer partnership with the franchise from July 13, 2000, to September 9, 2000. Participating restaurants offered toys and other collectibles with purchase of their kids' meals.[28] [29] When the film debuted in domestic theaters, a limited edition "Digi Battle" trading card was given out with every admission, with a total of 12 cards obtainable.

On October 6, 2000, the Mall of America hosted the premiere of Digimon: The Movie.

In July 2023, Discotek Media announced the acquisition of the rights of Digimon: The Movie for its first ever Blu-ray release. The release will include the film, alongside the original three short films that the movie was edited into as such in a single collection. Newly produced English dubs for the films will also be produced, featuring much of the original cast of that production as possible, including Joshua Seth, Michael Reisz, Lara Jill Miller and Brian Donovan.[30] [31] [32] Discotek described the tone of the new uncut dubs mixes the style of the "classic TV and The Movie dubs", and something "a bit more straight". Digimon: The Movie keeps its original soundtrack. In their statement, Discotek indicated that the Angela Anaconda short would not be included likely due to possible copyright issues.

Reception

Box office

Digimon: The Movie opened at #5 in the box office (being shown in 1,825 theaters)[33] and earned $4,233,304 on the opening weekend. The film's run ended on December 3, 2000, at #56 drawing in a weekend gross of $19,665 grossing a total of $9,631,153 domestically.[34] The movie also drew in $1,567,641 in the UK after its release on February 16, 2001[35] and $2,200,656 in Germany the same year.[36] It earned a total of, making it a minor box office success compared to its budget of $5 million.[37]

The international success of Digimon: The Movie led Toshio Suzuki to contact Mamoru Hosoda to direct Howl's Moving Castle, though he later left the production due to creative differences.[38] [39] Digimon: The Movie is, over twenty-two years after its release, Hosoda's most successful film in the United States.[40]

Critical reception

The film received generally negative reviews by critics. According to the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 24% of critics have given the movie a positive review based on 41 reviews, with an average rating of 4/10. The site's critics consensus reads, "Digimon is better than Pokemon, but it's still a predictable movie with mediocre animation."[41] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 20 out of 100 based on 17 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[42] Reviews from The New York Times,[43] The Globe and Mail, and Common Sense Media stated that there was too little focus on the plot and characters, which in turn alienated audiences who were not familiar with the television series.[44]

At the 2000 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards, the film won the award for "Worst Achievement in Animation".[45] However; the magazine Animage conducted a list of the "Top 100" anime productions in January 2001, and Digimon: The Movie placed 88th on list.[46]

Legacy

Despite the film's production struggles and negative critical reception, audience and fan response to the film has been more positive.[47] It continues to generate articles, reviews, memes, urban legends, and fads on social networks counting a few thousand engagements.[48] [49] [50] "The film has a life of its own now. [...] I’m so proud it keeps finding an audience. That’s all a filmmaker can ask for", said Jeff Nimoy in October 2020.

Writing for IGN Southeast Asia, Dale Bashir highlights some aspects of the film's production value stating, "Now is Digimon: The Movie better than the three movies it was adapting from? No, not even in the slightest. That doesn’t mean this movie cannot stand on its own merits, especially as a great case study into the art of dubbing and adapting foreign media into English." Nick Valdez for ComicBook also compliments aspects of the dub stating, "Because anime dubbing and licensing is handled far differently these days, Digimon: The Movie is not something that can be made again. [...] At this point, even the criticisms for the film are praises because now fans know all about its behind-the-scenes shenanigans. [...] The flaws are now a loving showcase to anime licensing from 20 years ago, and its best moments are still fondly recognized to this day."

The ska punk-influenced soundtrack has been singled out particularly, with many outlets and reviewers claiming it as the best aspect of the whole film.[51] [52] [53] [54] IGN deemed the soundtrack, "memorable", with CBR also claiming, "it's almost a perfect time capsule of the 2000's."[55]

In January 2022, for the release of Belle, Mamoru Hosoda expressed that whenever he promotes a new project abroad, he now meets many people who grew up with Digimon and who talk about the movie.

Soundtrack

Music from the Motion Picture Digimon: The Movie
Type:Soundtrack
Artist:Various Artists
Caption:Album cover
Released:September 19, 2000
Length:50:16
Label:Maverick

Music from the Motion Picture Digimon: The Movie is the original motion picture soundtrack for the film, Digimon: The Movie, released September 19, 2000 on Maverick Records on CD and compact cassette.[56] The film score was composed by Shuki Levy, Udi Harpaz and Amotz Plessner, and was performed by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.[57] [58]

The film's theme song is the "Digi Rap", a remix of the theme song from the English version of Digimon Adventure. The track is performed by Josh Debear under the name "M.C. Pea Pod" and Paul Gordon.[59]

See also

Notes and References

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