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0:04 soup with months windshield are coming out soon scrubbing a soul playing a billion copies and do super well but Pokemon go the detective Pikachu movie and the Nintendo directs pokemons having a pretty good time right now and you know what they've been having a pretty good time for a very long time but long ago it was a challenger a contender one who would can test the claim that Pokemon had to American culture a Pepsi to pokemons coke and this was Bakugan Battle Brawlers joshan it's digimon late 90s and early 2000s for a wonderful time for me I was a little boy running around drooling and watching TV I fell in love with both Pokemon and Digimon the
0:50 imaginary monster companions were such a dope concept dude as a dinosaur lover and a Barney enthusiasts at the age of 5 I obviously gravitated to the homies Agumon Charmander and squirtle I know Bulbasaur is like a dinosaur but she's not like bipedal and bipedal as I roll well these first movies came out for Pokemon and Digimon I watched both of them one holds a special connection with me one i rewatch a bunch that's the one that this video it's about Digimon the movie this movie is just perfect it just brings me back to that time when I was just sitting on a couch just watching TV with no worries it reminds me of going to fast food places to collect toys it reminds me of getting driven to school listening to the thong song it reminds me of Saturday morning Fox Kids Digimon
1:38 the movie is a time capsule hell to be honest when's the last time you thought Saban was relevant was the last time you've heard about Angela anaconda and when's the last time you heard this that theme that's the dub theme the one that aired in America across the world some people got this as some people didn't that's why when you say digimon some people will think of this song as that [Applause] in fact the difference is between the Saban dubbed and the original don't add with the theme song some character names were changed some Digimon names were changed and also the first American theatrical digimon movie and you might
2:25 be saying flush one that wasn't like there grammatically correct sentence man but it ain't wrong in 2000 there are no full-length Digimon movies made only three and a half smaller features that range from 40 minutes to a little over an hour and in a rush to capitalize off the game buster success of the Pokemon movies Fox decided they needed to make a Digimon movie so they took the editing scissors and got to work the first American theatrical Digimon movie is actually a combination of those three smaller movies there are so many edits and script changes though that this movie actually qualifies as an original work and not an adaptation when you actually sit down and watch both versions or all the originals which I did for the purposes of this video you'll find a ton of differences whether it's in like plot character tone
3:10 dialogue you name it and honestly I think the dub is better it's a perfect time capsule just like the early DreamWorks films Fox was obsessed with making a timely soundtrack look at this tracklist for the Digimon movie okay all-star Rockafeller skank kids in America one week the impression that I get all bonafide classics these songs were super of the time and date the movie into a wonderful way so much so that when I hear any of these songs I don't think they're out of place but I said I feel like I've been transported in time Digimon the movie is as much a period pieces madness but instead of the misogynistic racist smoking 60s it's the less misogynistic low-key racist late 90s and not only that but we got these
3:56 original songs like let's kick it up here we go run around also classic very specifically teaching on classic but still classics say what you will about dubs in general but the dub for the movie just gives it a whole different vibe this movie isn't just a translation of the Japanese source material after watching the different movies back to back the original version just seems so much more warning they got some weird a Evangelion vibes going on which wouldn't surprise me because you know the first movie is debuted around 2000 after the end of evangelion but compared to the dub you know it doesn't have as much energy the dove has so much of it it's got this late 90s pre 9/11 American excitement and jazz about it there's so much enthusiasm the dub has so many jokes loaded into it and it takes
4:42 opportunities to inject levity and humanity into all the material so much so that in comparison the original version seems very overly quiet and boring some scenes in the Japanese version seem very Evangelion inspired with the Digimon acting in the place of the Ava's and I really like friendly heroic companions anymore but instead there are these forces of nature and benevolent violent mysterious creatures Greymon no longer communicates with his toddler buddies and reassures them [Music] Greymon now you can be whoever you want [Music]
5:37 and warGreymon no longer acknowledges ties please and heroic speech [Music] [Applause] I know it's an opinion but the score and
6:25 let's kick it up is superior to the Japanese choir in the Omni motsi [Music] walk Ranma oddly bond [Applause] [Music] I stopped the only thing I don't like about the movie is the last chunk let me explain the Digimon movie is divided into three chunks which are compressed versions of
7:10 the three and a half movies respectively so we got eight years ago aka Digimon Adventure in Japan four years later aka Volcarona war game and present-day AKA digimon adventure 2 part 1 Digimon hurricane touchdown and part 2 transcendent evolution the golden digi mentals oh yeah and also an Angela anacondas short remember that got 2000 was a great time free life the bulk of the movie and my favorite parts are in the four years later section both poked around a war game and Digimon Adventure are relatively unchanged however the third part definitely sucks so through the first two parts there's this character that's name dropped and not mentioned in the series
7:56 it keeps talking about this dude named Willis when they finally get the present-day the whole story revolves around this Willis dude and his random corrupted Digimon personally this isn't very interesting to me because I didn't know who he was prior and I have no prior knowledge so I don't care about this game the pacing and editing was also really bad things were really compressed unlike the first two chunks which were edited down a little bit the third part was edited down almost to 50% of its original runtime a lot of stuff was skipped over and you had a lot of important plot points as well as character motivations in moments just the result is a really really quick moving movie that spends no time letting you get to know and like the characters also Willis sucks in fact you might even
8:41 say what were they thinking when they cut this movie together you can't just cut 30 minutes from a 60 minute movie and place it in and that's exactly what the dub director / writer Jeff Nimoy said he was actually in charge of the initial first draft and it was just a mash-up of the first two movies no Willis don't co c'mon and no random-ass golden DG eggs he even suggested that they'd released the third Digimon movie on TV or direct-to-dvd however the third chunk was based on the kids from the second season of Digimon so it was kept in to help with the promotion of the new season also fun fact the first two Japanese features were directed by Mamoru Hosoda and if that name sounds familiar it's because he directed a whole lot of awesome stuff like slam dunk episodes twenty nine and seventy one piece
9:26 episode 199 the girl who lived through time summer wars wolf children the boy and the beast near I and Dragon Ball Z episode 173 basically he's kind of a big deal it's like if Hayao Miyazaki cut his teeth animating episodes of Dragon Ball you can tell the difference in quality of animation and even the designs between the first two parts in the third to me the first two chunks of the movie are really really great the voice acting is great the nostalgia hits me just right and I think the jokes are really funny and overall if you're not already a fan of digimon this probably won't appeal to
10:11 you it seems to be very much a thing that you needed to be there for and it sucks at the right situation for digimon is so complicated the original American digimon theme song is owned by Saban so even future English dubs of digimon things could use it that meant that for the dubbing of the eventual sequel to our war game revenge of dia Boram on the inferior team at frontier theme was used instead digimon the movie was done by Fox but now the rights have moved over to Disney so maybe they can do a reprint or rerelease the movie except they won't because no one cares about Digimon anymore and it won't even have the original theme again so rip with the complicated right situation and lack of popularity at least in compared with Pokemon Digimon has kind of fallen from its peak in the late 90s and early 2000s however they've
10:59 released as a continuation of the original series called Digimon try and they've been releasing a steady influx of games so it's not like Digimon is dead also side note Digimon are cooler than Pokemon that's my personal stance if you disagree then you know get out come on man they can talk they can evolve whatever they want maybe got so many forms well so that the pika peace stuff it's okay but compared to Augen ones voice and him talking to ty it's over no contest thanks for watching and I hope you enjoyed the video and learned a little something about Digimon stay cool and stay Flushing
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