A look at Digimon the movie

0:00 hi So today we're going to be looking at a movie that I have really interesting relationship with and that being Digimon the movie now here's the thing it all started back when I was a kid obviously where one day my mom came home with a VHS of the movie for mostly my brother since he was a bigger fan of Digimon than I was and yeah we didn't watch it the cover was just so weird that we didn't really know what to make of it so the tape just kind of sat there for a bit but then one day we decided to watch it and yeah we loved it like a lot like we could not stop watching this movie but then as time went on WE quickly realized that VCRs were just

0:47 fading out of existence so we needed a DVD copy and luckily for us our local DVD store still had a copy of the movie on DVD despite the fact that the movie was already out of print nonetheless we can more or less watch the movie everywhere we wanted to but then as time went on WE quickly realized that this movie was getting harder to watch for people at least legally because most of the DVDs for Digimon at the time were just going out of print because all the season sets that just come out have honestly went out of print and start going for high value for secondhand copies and the only DVDs from back then that are still in print or the Digimon

1:32 dry movies which a lot of people even debate or even good films but enough about the rambling let's just get into the movie the movie begins with a short to a show called Angela and aanda and by God it's horrible like no joke like at the beginning I said the cover really did not want to make us watch this and this did not help at all I mean we already forgot this show existed by the time we saw this so yeah and the plot is nothing even too special it's just the characters going to go see the Digimon movie realized they went to the wrong theater and leave that's it so here's the thing nobody wanted to make this short not the people who dubbed the movie not the people who made the show

2:18 that the short was based off of it was Fox they own the rights to both shows and they figured yeah kids do like Monsters and kids to like day-to-day school stuff yeah put them together it'll work out out I have not met a single person who likes this short like maybe ironically you can laugh how terrible it is but and there's even a messed up story about how this short caused the parents or at least the kids's parents to get divorced yeah I've talked about this longer than I wanted to let's just get to the actual movie already the movie begins proper this time and it begins with a rap version of the show seam song and yes they call it the digi WAP and

3:03 yeah I think they only did this because Pokemon had a rap so they figured he why not give Digimon one then we see two kids in the middle of two monsters fighting as well as getting some narration by a girl named Ki who brings us back to the previous night to give us some context as to what's happening it all started one night when she was looking at her computer and all of a sudden it starts acting weird and the next thing they knew her and her brother see an egg coming out of it the next morning we see K's older brother his name is Ty waking up thinking that what happened last night was nothing more than a dream but then he sees his sister with the egg confirming that yes it did happen and while making breakfast the egg starts moving on its own where it then begins to hatch almost immediately

3:50 and when it does it attacks Tai before retreating under the bed and starts blowing bubbles later when it calms down Cari starts feeding it where they end up getting a phone call which ends up being rather glitchy and When Ty goes back he sees that actually got bigger and is now pink Ki then gives it more food this time cat food which he actually seems to really like to the point where it starts kissing them while the song Rockefeller gank by Fatboy Slim starts playing yeah so just to heads up there are a lot of songs from the late '90s and early 2000s in this movie and I encourage you to look up the soundtrack you might be surprised to see what's actually on it anyways after getting beat up by the cat

4:36 who just wanted his food back we cut to later in the day where we see that the thing can actually talk and that his name is coron then we get a cute moment where Ki tries to tell him their names and he kind of gets it right my name is Ki KI and this is my brother his name is Ty Ty hi Cari car Ty Ty never mind later that night we start an electrical anomaly which causes coromon to dig evolve but before that happens he looks like he's having a seizure and kind of unsettling nonetheless he changes into a big yellow dinosaur okay so this isn't out of nowhere like it was for shaded earlier in the film like when the phone was glitching out was the first time he actually changed his form and this is

5:21 called dig evolving so whenever a creature changes its form I will refer to it as dig evolving just a heads up Ki then hitches a ride on the yellow dinosaur his name is auman by the way and right as he jumps out and smashes into a car Tai of course gives chase after them lead to a really funny bit where they almost get hit by a truck did you see that no I was sleeping but you're driving aaman then tries to shoot the truck with a fireball but just misses hitting a phone Boo and it's here where Ki starts to get scared of him and right as he almost blows up a Bus full of people he gets distracted by helicopters we then get another electrical anomaly and it's not because auman's about to dig evolve this time

6:08 it's because another Digimon shows up this time a giant bird which aaman then starts shooting at but it doesn't work so in response he shoots lightning at him causing the bridge to collapse on top of him but then luckily for them another anomaly hits and aquan ends up dig evolving and unlike last time he actually tells T's name oron I'm Greymon now then at least the Greymon and parmon fighting to the show theme song and it's awesome and unfortunately even with this new Evolution greymond isn't strong enough to take him out and ends up falling Ki does try to wake him up with her whistle but is unable to but then sanly Tai is able to I guess having

6:54 better lungs and with this greymond wakes up firing one final blast to destroying him and parrotmon then it cuts to the next morning where we see the kid still there looking at the destruction wondering what exactly did they just witness okay so if you thought the movie was short well here's the thing it's not a movie it's technically three specials they edited together to make one movie and that was because when the Pokemon movie came out it was really popular and fox wanted a piece of that action but the problem was was at the time in Japan there was not an hour and a half long Digimon movie so they got the first three specials edited them together and made this

7:40 movie and first off I'm just going to say how I felt about the first one I liked it it was nice simple and kind of cute and it is actually Canon with the show because later on in season one they do bring up the events of this movie again anyways let's get to the next segment that being Star War game it starts off four years later with Izzy on his computer and all of a sudden he starts seeing something odd and not just him everybody on a computer is seeing it and what is it exactly well it's a Digi egg and it gets hit by a virus causing it to hatch then it cuts to Tai trying to send an email to a girl named Sora who was another character from the show it unfortunately doesn't go through then

8:26 it cut to a montage of all the other characters from season one well the song One Week by bare naked lady starts playing also another heads up about this part of the movie it takes place after season 1 then we see Izzy at Ty's apartment trying to explain the situation but since he's exhausted we get a pretty funny misunderstanding well it's about the egg huh the egg is already hatched oh not that egg a digy egg after getting tie up to speed he then tells him he can't do exactly determine what kind of Digimon it is then out of nowhere it digivolves and starts eating computer data and this causes some computers to malfunction so far it's mostly restricted to grocery stores so

9:12 then they decid to go to a better computer to hopefully monitor it better but when they check up on him they see that he already dig evoled again and this time he announces himself as caramon but unfortunately for them they don't have their Digimon with them to fight and right as Ty says this they get a video call from jeni along with aiman and tenton and the rest of the Digimon and they say they are ready to fight and as Jenai emails auman and tenton to the internet Tai does try to get a hold of everyone else but unfortunately they're all busy and Sora is mad at him so right now it's just TI isy to deal with this and when they send their Digimon into fight they attack him a couple times and when they do he's still standing so in response they did evolve the champion

9:59 level and when they do caramon does the same and as he digivolves to infon and fight it doesn't take long for them to realize that he's surprisingly stronger than he should be and with this Iz he figures out they actually skipped champion and went right to Ultimate okay so if you're having a hard time like following what I'm saying in Digimon there actually are names for all the different levels each Digimon has so I'm going to briefly explain them to you first off there's the baby form which is pretty self-explanatory then there's the entraining form where the Digimon learns how to speak then there's the rookie level where they learn how to fight and then Champion is just yeah they just keep getting stronger like then there's

10:45 Champion then there's ultimate then there's Mega and then there are levels beyond that but the names are kind of all over the place and then there's another thing called armor dig evolving which yeah the show and even the movies never made clear what that was like it's a champion ultimate somewhere in between yeah the show was not clear on that at all and later in this movie they are going to introduce another Evolution called DNA dig evolving which involves two Digimon coming together sorry for spoilers but you'll know what it is when you see it so in response they start dig evolving again and right if they do so infon attacks them practic beating them before

11:30 they can even do anything okay I'll give him credit you don't see many villains actually attack someone while they're in the middle of transforming or in this case dig evolving so yeah infon has my respect for actually being smart enough to try that then after this they start getting emails from people who are seeing the fight and they get one from infon which is just him saying hello over and over again and is he pinpoints that he that the phone company and if he messes that up they'll lose their connection to the internet which then leads him the tie trying to warn everybody but since the phone lights are dead he kind of just gets yelled at circuits are still busy don't tell me didn't you hear me but it's busy I'm sorry lady then out of the blue they get

12:15 a phone call from infam asking if they're the ones who programmed him and not just them he's calling everybody asking the same question I'll library on this more later and as this happens they lose their internet connection so Izzy runs off to hopefully find something that can get them back online and while Ty watches the news he finds out that voicemail is still active so with this he sends voicemails to everyone in hopes of getting a response then Izzy comes back with the way to connect to the internet which is honestly seems kind of illegal and while he hooks it up they find out they actually did get in contact with Matt and TK and despite having their Digi VI with them they're out in the boonies in the year 2000 so they have to go look for a

13:01 computer and right as Izzy gets back online we then get a montage of infon taking over computers at an airport in the United States and once that's done we then see mad TK do eventually find a computer granted it's in a barber shop but hey it's a computer nonetheless and with this they're actually able to send auman and tenson some reinforcements this time giman and patamon and when they go in the fight they don't hold back I goon and goon literally dig evolve to their Mega levels and actually do some real damage to him and with this he retaliates with the data he stole and digol to his Mega stage this time diaboromon and ends up making quick work of patamon and tentomon and it's around here where Izzy literally gets diarrhea

13:48 at the worst possible moment and as he leaves Ty gets frustrated and accidentally hits the computer causing it to blue screen and when Izzy gets back and able to reboot it the see that Digimon got really messed up in the fight then out of nowhere a countdown starts as well as diaboromon multiplying and Izzy also finds out that he hacked the Pentagon and the reason for the timer is that he fired two missiles and that's the countdown to when they land and one of them is heading toward them so is he gets the idea that if they destroy the original diboron the rest should disappear as long as stopping the timer okay so they can barely fight one of them and now is he wants them to fight an army of them and hope that one of them will be the

14:34 original yeah I see a lot of holes in this plan they then see that their Digimon are still alive just barely and moving rather slowly mostly because of all the emails nonetheless they still go to fight the other diaboromon and when they go see him or face him they find out that he already multiply to over a million and when they try to dodge their attack they could barely do so causing them to get shot down rather quickly and yeah it ain't looking too good for them then out of nowhere Ty and Matt are somehow able to physically enter the internet I will explain my thoughts on this later but when they do they plead with their digima not to give up then out of nowhere all the emails that were

15:19 slowing them down they literally absorb them the harness their power just so they can Digi evolve into a new Digimon and this Digimon is called omnimon one of the most famous Digimon and with this new power they are able to take out the diaboromon well all by one yeah the one they don't kill just happens to be the original so yeah try and figure that out and right as they're running out of time I he gets the idea to forward all the emails to DIA Borman slowing him down like they did and with this they just barely have enough time to kill him and I do mean barely they cut it close then the segment comes to an end with Ty and Izzy just grateful they didn't just die as well as cutting to some kid in

16:07 the US who's happy that di Boron was destroyed and then out of nowhere one of his Digimon just happens to disappear ending the segment and that was our war game still my favorite part of the whole Digimon movie or at least movie out of the three and here's the thing it is used in the show because with the the first movie it takes place before season 1 well this one takes place after season 1 but before two and is used to explain two things kind of the first one being DNA dig evolving which we saw was omnimon and the other one I'm only saying as a stretch because in season 2 they can just grab their Digi VI and just go into the digital world by just

16:52 poting it to a computer and going Digi Port open and it's kind of similar When Ty and M going inside the internet but here's the thing it kind of happens out of nowhere because with the show like I said they need their Digi Vice but in the movie we don't see them use it like maybe it was in their pocket but the movie never made that clear nonetheless I still love this movie despite the one little hiccup in plot hole I just mentioned and it's kind of funny to think about how they're using dialup internet plus Windows 98 to stop nuclear war I don't know why that's so funny to me anyways let's get to the last segment that being hurricane touchdown it starts off by giving us a

17:38 bit of catch up on what the characters from season 1 have been up to as well as introducing us to the new characters from season 2 which hadn't even come out of North America by the time this movie came out that being Cody Yulie and Davis as well as their Digimon then it cut to New York City where we see TK and Cari trying to connect a laptop to a phone it doesn't work and out of nowhere they sense that something is off and that's when we see Willis the kid from the end of the last segment and he's going up against a really big Digimon that refers to as cocoon and for some reason he keeps repeating go back and Destroy and before we could find out why he starts attacking leaning to Willis's partner Digimon teron trying to fight him off

18:25 and once the fight ends TK and car catch up to him trying to ask what's happening but instead he ends up running away okay so I was holding off on mentioning Willis because the original Three movies like I said had nothing to do with each other and the English people were trying to find a way to connect the three stories as one and they did it through Willis because in the first segment they say he got his Digimon around the same time as Ty and Cari and for our war game he was regularly in contact was I he even saying that this was all his fault and remember he did say in the flashback that he got two Digimon instead of one so seeing him with one here honestly adds mystery to the segment so let's just keep watching and

19:12 see where this goes panamon then tries to fly close to him to figure out what's going on and he over hears that he's going to Colorado so Tik and car decide to Hitch a train there as well as telling Davis and the others to meet him there despite the fact they're currently in Japan then it cuts back to Willis and Terrier mod where Willis explains that he interprets cookon saying go back as go back to where it all started as well as explaining that he doesn't want anyone to help them because anyone that gets close to them cookon mysteriously makes disappear and this is proven later or immediately when it cuts back to TK and Cari on the train where cookon does try to stop them but thankfully their Digivice repels him away

19:59 however everyone in the train is now just gone as well as the train stopping halting their progress then it cuts to all the other characters trying to make their way to Colorado through conveniently placed family travel agencies okay so fun facts in the Japanese version they were literally hitchhiking with random strangers all the way there so in the English version they changed it just to hopefully keep kids from doing it but then it just shows Davis hitching aai with a random trucker anyways which makes me wonder why they even bother to change it in the first place nonetheless when they get on the truck they do end up meeting with Willis after the next stop they quickly get acquainted as well as calling for a pizza to use as a makeshift taxi and

20:45 when the taxi or pizza guy shows up he's clearly just some random guy in a pickup truck that they're hitchhiking with who ends up leaving Davis and Willis behind and right as he does cookon shows up and when Davis goes to fight him we see that for some reason he has one the same moves as diaboromon cable Crusher crush and when vmon and Davis don't do so well against him teron dig evolves and jumps into the fight and actually far is much better to the point where cookon Retreats while still saying go back they're still Stranded by the way but thankfully vmon is able to dig evolve into something that can get them to their destination as well as meeting up with the others and when they meet up

21:31 with the others they realize that Tik and Ki haven't made it yet and Willis assumes that cookon probably got to them leading to Yi asking how he knows so much about him and he responds by saying he was the one who made him and with that awkward moment he ends up leaving with Davis following not too far behind and it's around here where we get the whole story I already told you about the part where we had twin digima when it of the egg but here's the new information he tried to make another Digimon because he wanted more friends but before it could hatch he gets hit by a virus and that's the Digimon that became diaboromon and that explains why he knew so much about him and why in the last

22:16 segment he said it was all his fault I don't know I think this is an interesting way to connect the three movies and here's the thing like the reason he only has one Digimon now and why won when crazy it's because the virus infected one of them which is why we saw cookon have one of diab boron's attacks I like this because in the original Japanese version his Digimon just disappears without explanation then just comes back years later for Revenge so adding the detail that he was the one who caused all this makes sense as to why he would want to deal with this on his own I don't know that's just something interesting to think about when comparing this to the original anyway ways after a hilariously botched emotional moment that's the saddest

23:03 story I ever I'm the one with the problem not you get over it okay that was fast then Willis just abruptly accepts their help at De feeding cookon and it had a pretty good time because he just shows up out of nowhere and when he does he digivolves leading to everyone else making their Digimon Digital just so they can fight him and yeah they don't even land a single decent hit or hit at all on him then he just Retreats into the water then after all the colors change he comes back in his mega form making him even more powerful and even forcing all the other characters to have their Digimon in their rookie levels but hey that doesn't stop them mean they

23:48 even seem to land a few decent hits on him but then it turns out he was just toying with them and right as he's about to eat them animon and andrean coming to help along with TK and Ki but then he turns the sky dark leading to everyone turning younger and here where Willis figures out that when he says go back he meant go back in time to when the virus first attacked him and then out of nowhere angon and andron digivolves to their Mega levels to summon the golden Digi eggs okay so here's the thing in the show they never had these forms and they would never properly use them until the Digimon tribe movies that came out like over 10 years later after this movie did and even in the Japanese version they don't explain how they even

24:35 could reach these forms in the first place but it's still cool to see so I'll let it slide and their plan works leading to Davis and Willis causing their Digimon the golden armor digol to magnamon and rapidmon and fun little fact if you couldn't already tell magnamon is the digit one featured on the poster of this movie I don't know I just thought it'd be funny to point that out and when they try to fight him it doesn't do much unfortunately so they decide to try and attack him from the inside and when they're inside of him they find cookon again and when he says destroy they finally figure out what it means he wants them to destroy the virus and when they finally do he becomes purified and slowly Fades away leading to Willis

25:21 thinking he lost terriermon but thankfully he and vmon survived the encounter and with the virus find finally destroyed Davis ends up telling Willis that Digimon never really die and that cookon could come back and hopefully less evil then the movie comes to an end with everyone saying their goodbyes in New York along with Willis reuniting with cookon who is for some reason dancing to Allstar by Smash Mouse and just so you know this movie came out a year before Shrek did nonetheless that was Hurricane touchdown still definitely the weakest of the three specials but I still liked it and here's a fun little fact for everyone who grew up with the English version with the first two segments they

26:07 were mostly left intact from their original Japanese versions but hurricane touchdown was really cut down like you want to know how much okay well here it's like I don't know like 25 minutes the original was like a full hour and when I saw it for the first time not legally I might add it honestly felt like watching ing a new Digimon movie for the very first time with how much was cut out and removed and those were more or less my thoughts on Digimon the movie and yes it is kind of a time capsule of the late 90s and early 2000s kind of like how Space Jam is just the Time Capsule of the 90s itself and this movie as well is kind of an anomaly mostly because they took

26:53 three movies from the same franchise none of which had anything to do with each other I might add and somehow write a story that can be seen as believable seriously what was the last time you saw a movie that did that I mean yeah we have compilation movies for anime where they just recap certain story points but do there's three separate stories that nothing to do with each other and the closest thing that comes to mind is probably the anime robot Tech where they just got three random anime and put them together as one show and here's another thing this movie has never once been put on streaming like I do remember a brief time where Netflix did have the first three seasons of Digimon but not the movie and when

27:40 Disney bought box I was kind of hoping they would put the movie on Disney plus kind of like how they put the Power Ranger movies on Disney plus but it didn't happen and I think of reading a story where someone on crunch did try to get the movie on there but Disney was asking for too much money so for the longest time the only way to legally watch this movie was to get your hands on a VHS tape or a DVD but these came out 20 years ago and have not been in print since but we have had some good news in recent years because a company called discotech did release the show on Blu-ray as well as the Japanese versions okay at the time of me making my video the season 2 Japanese Blu-ray

28:27 hasn't come out yet yet and through some miracle they got through all the legal problems and made this and if you follow my community Tab and judging by how little likes those get I doubt you have they made this yep after all this time the movie is now finally back in print on physical media and it's awesome and if you're watching my video you can tell I was not using footage from this Blu-ray I was using it from the original DVD and that's because I want people to experience this for themselves because it's not just the English movie because on the cover it says Digimon the movies

29:12 meaning that it actually has the original Three movies that were made to make this movie and here's another thing which is honestly really cool they got back the original surviving voice actors and redubbed these three movies to be more faithful to the originals and granted some voices are pretty good others not so much so it's more of a fun novelty if anything but it's just cool to hear them again doing Digimon and trust me when I say if you want to watch this movie I highly recommend the Blu-ray because it's cheaper and okay not really cheaper like it depends on where you find these secondhand because some places sell these tape and DVD for a really high

29:57 price rice despite all that I just want to ask do you have this Blu-ray and if you do what do you think do you like the new dub or do you prefer the original because well they're both on here nonetheless I want this Blu to sell well because if we're lucky we might get a Digimon movies collection too and some of the later movies are practically impossible to find legally let alone the English versions if at all and with that I'm grateful to be back for 2025 and I hope to keep making videos for the year take care