Ok I'll admit I could not sit through all of the pokemon movie I planned to review, it was that bad. (and I sat through Bionicle!). Instead today on I Watched it on Youtube, I'm going to review the movie version of pokemons little brother digimon. I loved the first and even second series of this show so I'm interested to see how the movie turns out.
Let me explain something to start out the American version of this movie plays out in 3 parts. Mainly because it's actually combining the 3 short movies from the Japanese. If this were theatrical release I would have a problem with it however as a add on to the series I think it fits in nicely. However sometimes scenes can feel rushed or something was missing because they had to cut stuff for time.
My main focus will be the second story because it's the longest, best and that is the one that I can relate to the most. But first here's a summary of the plot of each one.
The first segment is with Tai and Kari as young kids with there first interaction with digimon. It was something they touched on in the series and it played out well here.
The second part's plot takes place after the events of the first season but still takes the main cast from that season, it involves an evil digimon on the internet.
The third part involves the characters from season two tracking down a digi-destined in America.
Now before I get into how awesome this movie was, I must say, if you don't have any previous knowledge of the serious, you might not get alot of it. The movie explains everything but it's pretty tough to digest all of it so quickly.
About the movie itself, Digimon the Movie is hilarious!!! I watched this alone in my house on youtube and it had me laughing out loud on multiple ocasions. The show was always funny when it wanted to be but not that many jokes were ever made, the movie however was really goddamn funny. It's hard to explain how funny a movie is so I'll move on to other aspects of the movie, but truly the humor hear really sells the movie because it's just normal jokes, even if your confused by the plot and all this diggimon stuff you'll still laugh.
A big aspect to why this movie was great to me as a self proclaimed movie critic was the direction. I know as an animated film being a director isn't exactly the same as live action, but in this film the angles were amazing and the action looked fluent and exciting. This subtle brilliance really kept you sunk into what was going on.
The animation has changed a bit from the vs show, the coloring is blander and everything is just mildly different. I'd prefer to see it the old way, but the animation does it's job with no real faults.
Another subtle awesomeness of this movie was the soundtrack. I would honestly want to own the CD of this movie's soundtrack. It took American songs that fit the mood very well (and some of my personal favorites) while keeping in songs specifically about digimon and the songs from the show. All in all, anytime a song played in this movie, I was more pumped for the action.
I don't want to ramble on so I'll wrap this up. This movie was great, the humor was genuinely funny without ruining the seriousness of events and mood. The direction, soundtrack, and script was well done. Overall this was a very high quality product that like the tv show tops pokemon. I'd definetly suggest checking this one out on youtube, even if your not a fan go and just watch the middle segment. Overall I'll give it an 8.5/10
Kaymazing
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