Digimon The Movie Review | Botluck Productions

0:06 the things i've seen the things i've done the wounds i have gained all from learning about digimon the movie yeah what a wild ride uh kind of crazy to hear about the development on this thing oh the eye patch yeah there was a joke i was gonna do about opening a 20-something year old dvd i thought it didn't work uh anyway uh something something wars change metal your solid joke yeah i got nothing uh hit the digi wrap [Music] what a weird thing released on october 6 2000 the film is something of an odd

0:52 frankenstein mix of three unrelated films edited to make something of a coherent plot kind of between its use of late 90s music the angela anaconda opening and the weird legacy it left behind the movie has quite a tale to tell i mean i remember watching this back in the day getting a free trading card i even remember suggesting on the nostalgia critic forms for him to review this being quite happy when he and ocheso otaku did then i read things like how an actual marriage was destroyed because of the angel anaconda short or how this is considered a diamond in the rough of a film but i'm getting ahead of myself like any great tale we need to go back to the beginning the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step but for those with the fast pass time code for

1:38 all of you again i apologize about the last review for the rest of us let's begin the story our story begins shoot i forgot about this uh so angela anaconda was a show that aired on fox kids around the same time as digimon i never watched the show and have next to no knowledge about it billiam did a whole video on the show links in the description in the context of this film angela and our friends are trying to get in to watch the best movie ever the digimon movie sure fine i guess that's one way to look at it the alpha [ __ ] cut in line because they have vip tickets to the digimon movie why angela fights for a movie seat for the digimon movie why the alpha [ __ ] block her view by using a teacher why

2:23 why would you do that why would you do any of that angela dreams she's a digimon and fights the alpha [ __ ] why why and it turns out everyone is in the wrong film so now that that pointless scene is done the film can begin except you know let me just show you the opening credits i mean look at this they literally just made a 3d background and had jpegs of the digimon run around it would be like if i had my jpeg characters just run around like this it also has the digi wrap which yeah this is a thing [Music] so after all that the film actually starts with corey introducing herself describing the team talking about some random kid in america named willis and his two digimon and remembering about

3:09 the first time she encountered a digimon as she puts it cute on that night an egg came out of the computer and into reality the next morning kari and tai wonder just what to do with such a thing until it starts rolling around soon enough it hatches [Music] as funny as it would be to have a chest buster happen the digimon just retreats under the bed after harassing it with the goggles of leadership kari tries communicating with the creature with her whistle by singing the digimon theme song tai soon tries to think of what to do with the monster and it becomes a karu mod that just took a dump kari begins to feed the karuman we get rockefeller skank and a literal cat reminds koremon

3:55 and tai why not to mess with its food anything let's have a warning for this too yes this actually happens later that night koroman starts acting funny and digivolves into agumon a big agumon no not alpha algomon that pokemon game hasn't come out yet kari hitches a ride on the dinosaur and the two escape into the city and caused some hijinks did you see that no i was sleeping but you're driving okay that's actually kind of funny it soon becomes apparent that agumon is violent as he begins opening fire on everything kari tries to stop the digimon when a second digi egg appears it hatches revealing guilford godford i mean parrotmon while this is all happening

4:41 tai follows the destruction reuniting with kari akuman tries to fight parrotmon and fails this doesn't kill agumon but turns him into greymon the dinosaur and parrot fight and greymon is knocked out kari desperately tries to save her friend as paramount comes in for the kill tai realizing that kari doesn't have enough strength to blow her whistle takes the whistle and awakens greymon greymon and parrotmon fight and then disappear which leads everyone to believe that this was caused by the terrorists and not by giant digital monsters saying this out loud makes it sound like i'm some conspiracy nut and we haven't even reached tamers yet next up the film jumps four years later to the year of 2000. tai is having a hard time writing a letter to sora the reason not important right now while he is writing kari accidentally sends the email and then leaves because she has a

5:26 birthday party to go to tai of course is unhappy till he learns that the letter will not be sent at which point he is angry that the email is not working anyway izzy arrives and has made a startling revelation an egg has formed online no not that egg izzy was tipped off by a boy in colorado named willis who's willis not important that's for the next film anyway izzy links two computers together as a means to have a stronger computer and internet communication abilities so to observe the digimon that is formed online not how that works but okay we'll go with that izzy explains that the digimon is some kind of virus that eats code which is messing with the information at a supermarket right now okay that's one box of chocolates your total comes to one million one hundred huh yeah that's what it says that must be really good chocolate paper or

6:12 plastic tai asked why hasn't he just deleted the creature to which izzy responds he tried and failed the two then realized that the digimon has digivolved and that there's not much they can really do to stop it thai bemoans agamon not being here i am here that's right folks the digi marketable digimon are here and they want to help while the digimon and jedi aren't certain that keromon is a digimon they are certain he poses a greater theft than the dark masters and i assume a lesser threat than apocalymon anyway tai decides to start calling to digi destiny in order to get the band back together but much like bam back on jackass this proves to be impossible kari is of course at a birthday party and is unable to help joe's taking classes mimi is on holiday in hawaii sora is not on speaking terms with tai

6:57 the reason apparently tai made fun of a hairpin ah young love can't wait for season two to destroy this ship anyway matt and tk are potential help but their grandma accidentally puts the phone down trying to get the two alone ty and izzy decide to fight back against keromon their plan involves sneaking up on the digimon the attack proves unsuccessful so the two decide to digivolve and the world watches as something is going on wow this x-play review of digimon world is amazing but karamon counters by digivolving into inframon greymon and kabumon continue the attack and it proves to be pointless izzy soon realizes why when karamon digivolved it bypassed a step due to all the data it had ate amphimon is at the ultimate stage so tide is a digivolver digimon

7:54 [Music] attacking while your opponent is digivolving that's probably the smartest thing any villain has done on digimon no wonder you get a revenge film yeah you rank higher than a apocalypse back to the film inframon escapes back into the net with the digimon resting for the next encounter but something concerning happens izzy receives an email from inframon and realizes that inframont has infected the phone provider if compromised izzy and tai will lose access to the internet and their digimon tai desperately tries to contact anyone but learns the hard way that the phones are dead due to infamous speed dialing every number didn't you hear me but it's busy i'm sorry lady it soon gets worse what connection

8:41 terminated what next in response to this ddos attack the phone company creates a voice call system or as kari calls it phone tag tai starts sending as many messages out there trying to contact anyone in the meanwhile izzy has gotten hold of a satellite phone by connecting to a military satellite izzy is able to regain connection to the internet and anyone with any history with the military knows this doesn't work not the military satellite thing the military has some nice tech no i mean being able to get any internet connection via said tech the two also learned that tk and matt are in informing the two of the situation matt and tk realize they need access to a computer since their grandma has none meanwhile tai learns that tk and matt are the only ones available especially since mimi is in hawaii back

9:27 online the ford digimon and digi destiny attack inframon agamon and gabumon digivolve into war greymon and metal guru rumon but before they can attack inframan digivolves into diaboromon acting fast the virus pins down padamon and tantamon tk tries to get pademon back into the fight but his cries are fruitless thankfully matt and ty are there to attack diaboromon it's a tough fight something's wrong but something is wrong tai notices that the digimon are slowing down unable to keep up with diaboromon what's more izzy has a potty break i hate to tell you i told you so but i told you something okay again a funny scene ty can only watch the digimon fight come on

10:14 no ah the dreaded blue screen of death never a good sign is he returned shocked at what has happened and reboots the computer we soon learn about why sora and ty are fighting long story short tai gave sora a hairpin sora thought tai was making fun of her hat then the pin and this is pointless again zero two would destroy this ship moving on back online tai is shocked to see the digimon close to death to rub salt in the wound diaboromon shows a countdown confused at first izzy soon learns that a nuclear missile has been fired the nations of the world are trying to intercept the weapon but diaboromon is causing these interceptions to fail if only the military satellite tech worked izzy then

11:01 realizes that the missile is being aimed at their location quick izzy make the digimon play tic-tac-toe it worked in war game with everything at stake wargreymon and metal guru roman gather their strength for one last push to defeat dioboromon and stop the nuke finding the virus it becomes apparent that this is going to be hard since diaboromon has copied itself the hero's only shot at winning is to destroy the original as destroying the original will delete the copies and stop the nuke [Music] goes about as well as you think ty and matt watch helplessly as their friends

11:47 be destroyed and then a miracle happens through the heart of the cards or something tai and matt will themselves into the metaverse to be with their digimon giving their digimon words of encouragement and by saying that kids throughout the world are counting on them the digimon begin to change emails from kids around the world form around the digimon their energy powering the digimon wargreymon and metal guru reminds start to change as a digi egg forms around them the egg hatches revealing the two digimon have combined into omnimod the diaboromon fire back to which omniran responds with a backhand slap decimating a large number of the clones this is then followed by cannon fire and alt rock as omnimon exterminates the diaboromon like cockroaches in the end only the original diaboromon remains but the virus proves

12:34 too fast with time slowly clicking down izzy soon remembers the slowdown from earlier forwarding the emails they received thus far izzy causes diaboromon to slow down at the last second omnimod is able to deliver the final blow killing diaboromon and stopping the missile the day is saved the cake thai's mom cooked is ruined all right that was a story thing i forgot about and sora receives the email from tai still angry but not in a malicious way you know the japanese actor for tai saw this as a sign that tai and sora would be together shame that zero two ruins that ship anyway with that over the film finally comes to an end wait what but we oh right i forgot we still have digimon

13:20 adventures zero two part one digimon hurricane touchdown and digimon adventure zero two part two supreme evolution the golden digi metals because the japanese just had to make this a two-part ova okay so plot for this one some years have gone by the original digidestine sanskari and tk have gotten older and have more responsibilities as such zordon decided to choose new power rangers i mean digidestined these are yoli with hawkmon cody with armadillo mon and v-mon with davis davis david sorry you'll understand this one when i review zero two anyway kari and tk are in new york when kari gets a bad feeling

14:06 so remember that boy willis yeah this is basically his film he is currently dealing with his choco mon that is hunting him and his terrier mon down the choco mon okay so technically wendigomon tells willis to go back something that willis doesn't really understand cary and tk try to help but the american runs off once the wendigo disappears realizing they need backup kari and tk contact the rest of the cast to come to america to help out which is important because kari and tk gets stopped by the digimon while riding the train though given that this is america this is more likely amtrak operating as normal anyway the rest of the zero 2 casts make their way across america thanks to yoli's cousins and hold on is that a [ __ ] mazda anyway eventually the group encounters willis and quickly realized that since willis has a digimon he is a digidestined but confused as to why he's

14:52 alone this is foreshadowing to zero two people davis and willis get split from the group and when to go mon reappears veemont fights back terrier mondage evolves into the second amendment and wendigoman just tells willis to go back again afterwards willis explains to davis what's going on years ago willis received a digi egg that when hatched had twin digimon as a lonely kid he tried his hand at summoning another digimon he partially succeeded creating diaboromon world war iii almost happened and the virus infected chocomon long story short willis is returning to colorado to confront chocomon hoping to save it are defeated one or the other this causes davis to cry i'm the one with the problem not you get over it okay that was fast yes

15:37 it's resolved that fast eventually the group make it to colorado and confront wendigomon despite everything the digimon still says for them to go back confused willis asks exactly what does it mean wendagomon then talks about destruction in digivolves we get a battle scene with some kick-ass alt-rock but the rock only goes so far and chokemon digivolves into whatever this clown is i suppose you think i shouldn't have a gun either the battle turns with the digimon now d digivolved by chocomon but the cavalry arrives as khari tk and jamon and andrew woman make their appearance to fight back unfortunately it proves too little too late chocomon starts turning time backwards causing everyone to become younger acting fast

16:24 anjoman and andrew woman enter their mega form sorry but quick aside this is the only time that these two digimon reach this form during the show the only other time they appear like this and i kid you not was not until 20 years later in digimon try yeah they never appear like this in the cartoon only in the movie anyway continue forms to release the golden digi metals davis and willis used the golden things to digivolve their digimon who get eaten well that was a waste actually this is a good thing as the two digimon find wendigo mon in the monster they realize the only way to stop this is to kill wendigoman in here which they do the virus is defeated chokemon leaves this planet and the movie finally comes to a close the group bids farewell to willis with

17:09 willis giving a kiss to kari and jolie long story but we'll get to that later davis gets angry and we end on smash mouth six months before shrek and that was the digimon movie it's it's quite the wild ride a mix of some of the best the franchise has to offer and some of the not the worst but you get what i mean part of the problem with this film is how long in the tooth it feels the first two parts go well together book ending the original series the issue is that you have the third part that doesn't exactly mesh well with the rest of the film it's like the third wheel of this film you can literally remove that third part and the film would be better yes even with the angela anaconda part and to be fair there is a reason for this see the digimon movie is

17:55 actually three well technically five separate films yes there is a story behind that but let's not get ahead of ourselves this is why the film feels so disjointed it's because you're dealing with three films frankenstein together into an eldritch beast those three films while technically in chronological order have no real connection i mean the first and second parts too but that's mainly because they deal with the same characters the third film not really with this in mind i sought out the original japanese versions to compare them to their english counterparts anyway let's get started because ho boy there are some interesting things with this show starting with digimon adventure the movie not the cartoon as stated

18:41 earlier in my review of the tv show digimon adventure the movie was originally a short film meant to promote the toys later act as a pilot to the show digimon adventure and it's quite interesting to watch the japanese version is more artsy compared to the english version going with music more fantastical as opposed to funk's soul brother not much has really changed between the two versions some scenes were omitted are shortened one noteworthy scene that was omitted is when tai and kari's father comes home drunk and wants to kiss his kids goodnight this happens at the same time koromon becomes big but perhaps the biggest change comes from the context of the film see in the original film it's kind of implied that this is tai remembering the events of the film this is him reminiscing about encountering digimon for the first time in the english version this was changed to kari

19:27 though funny enough it was originally supposed to be tai he was dropped as the narrator when the third film was added in since tai really isn't in the third film personally i prefer the english version if only because of making kari the narrator and funk's old brother but mostly kari the reason is that in the show kari remembers koroman and the digimon and has that whole chosen thing about her so having her reminisce about the events makes perfect sense granted this was made before digimon was really worked on so it's understandable why kari really isn't the main focus in the original film that being said there isn't really much difference between the two versions you can watch either and have a good time so yeah watch the japanese version if you can but you're not missing out on much if you just watched the english version

20:12 children's war game for the most part the plot between the two films are the same for the most part big changes include adding in willis being responsible for all this in the japanese version diaboromon just randomly appears in fact the person izzy talks to is a girl from russia funny enough in the original show the group learns about the missile because a kid in singapore hacked the pentagon and saw that a glitch happened also no one did anything to stop this concerning but okay this also ties into the whole time element the timer was meant to signify when diaboromon would set the bomb off the whole race to stop the clock was to prevent the warheads from detonating since nukes are a lot more complicated than just bomb hit ground and go boom this was also why diaboromon copied itself making it harder to stop the clock other changes include a few

20:58 omitted scenes mostly not needed for the plot the exception though was the few scenes with matt in tk in the original show there is a sequence where matt and tk are hunting for any computer that has access to the internet while nowadays wi-fi makes it easy to access the internet there's still the element of hunting around trying to avoid using roaming wifi as means to save money the scene ages well i personally like the scene and wish they kept it one change i do prefer in the english version was the music the japanese version used a lot of orchestral and marching tracks which is fine and all but the english version emits them for either alt rock or silence and honestly i think this silence works more to show just how serious this is though when it comes to omnimon this becomes interesting the japanese version opts for an angelic

21:44 soundtrack making amimon sound like an angel is coming down from on high to smite the enemy the english version [Music] both work as for which version i prefer it's kind of a wash i like the music in the english version but i prefer the cut content from the japanese version honestly if you can watch both digimon02 okay now this was the film i was most interested in this was the one that i heard had the most cut from it this was one of the films i really wanted to see what the japanese version back when the japanese version was on youtube this was the film i watched to see what changed i mean children's war game had some interesting cut content

22:31 surely this film can live up to it right oh this is bad first let's address the elephant in the room the cut content yes saban cut large parts of the story from the film in fact of the three this one had the most cuts and yet somehow despite all that was cut you don't really miss much story-wise about the only thing you miss on is the main reason the zero 2 cast was in america and that was because when negomon had somehow captured the original kids so he can make them younger to find wallace that is honestly the biggest change the english version has outside of connecting the film to our war game there's also changing wallace's name to willis but that's about it well there is one other thing this is

23:17 kind of a spoiler for zero two but here it is davis is kind of not the greatest when it comes to characterization he's very one note now the film does dwell on davis relation to his digimon in the japanese version wallace reveals that wendy gomon is his digimon and that he has trouble coming to grips not being able to help the digimon davis has trouble accepting that wallace is fighting chocomon that he himself could never kill veemon wallace tells davis that once they reach colorado that chocomon might return and you see where this goes the english version cuts this almost comically so and of all the cuts that was the one thing i think they messed up on yeah this film so much of it is dead airtime and the music it's bad indescribably so uh i get the feel they were going for making america

24:04 this almost alien land to foreign eyes but man is it bad there is also a tonal difference the english cut opts to make the film slightly more action-packed mainly by cutting some scenes or making them shorter the japanese original while it's technically action-packed it's more of an emotional film to ponder about wallace having to choose if he can kill chocomon and now i'm sleepy let's go back to our war game one funny thing i'll bring up is that wallace speaks both japanese and english the reasoning is that he had a japanese girlfriend and learned some nahingo i say this is funny is because when wallace meets jolie he is constantly complimenting her appearance then there's the kiss at the end it well let's just say i think wallace has a type but back to the review just watch

24:49 the english version yes it's shorter than the japanese version yes its plot is different yes it ruins the movie but honestly compared to the japanese original and i hate to say it the english version is way better i have no idea how this film would have worked as a standalone director dvd film which normally is a segue to the production history of this film but let's make a quick pit stop at my opinion on pretty much everything else i'll be quick visually the film looks good though i like our war game the most it looks the most cinematic of the three films music wise very well done good selection of 90s and early 2000s music even the original songs are good except the digirap but no idea who mcp pod is and it doesn't seem no one else does as well

25:35 hope they're doing well voice acting is good can't really complain here and yeah that about wraps it up so uh let's go on to the production sit down everyone get your favorite drink go use the bathroom trust me we have quite the wild ride i'll wait so as stated earlier the first film was intended to promote a toy and later a tv show that aired the next day the only thing to note was that hasadah the director initially planned for the film to be about tai's father and his digimon doing things around tokyo during the 1968 olympics this was rejected with the film being retooled as a kaiju film apparently the big concern with this film was the short length and making it connected to the series so they said it in the past overall the film did well almost immediately after hosada was told to make another film initially he had

26:21 two ideas one was a travel film set in okinawa another a film about the kids saving the world obviously they went with the save the world film though that okinawa film sounds a lot like the tamers film digimon battle of adventurers but i digress the film was written to not be as serious compared to adventure opting for something easy with thrills there was also a run time issue with only 40 minutes the cast was limited to four main characters they also took inspiration from the film's speed and had the action of the film happen in real time again the film did well and then the problems began right after our war game aired the third film was sent into production hosada was not connected to it so someone else had to write the script since our war game had a spring release this film was going to have to have a release and fall this

27:07 is important since action films are released in the spring while melancholic films are in the fall the initial script was accepted and then had to be rewritten apparently whoever approved the script didn't read it in full or something they wanted something more action-packed a few rewrites later and we got the two-parter zero to film look i'm not saying the full name it's a mouthful but yeah that explains why this film doesn't mesh well different director different tone but now we need to go back in time in order to understand what happened in america the year is 1999. warner brothers has just released pokemon the first movie a film that changes the industry you see up until this point animated films were expensive affairs the amount of production time required to make an animated film eclipsed that of any live action production but what warner

27:52 brothers realized was that you can cut costs if you just licensed an anime film unlike a traditional production everything about the film is complete the story the music the animation everything all you need to do is translate the script edit it recut the film rescore the music and redub the voices the last two are very important by rescoring the music you avoid having to pay royalties while also gaining them whenever the film airs as for dubbing well when it comes to actors voice actors are considered quite low on the totem pole with voice over actors being even lower how low you may ask how about not being paid residuals for performances that's right outside of initial pay voice over actors get nothing no residuals for dvd sales no residuals for shows airings nothing and for a movie company that's good it means production costs are low allowing for higher profit margins and warner

28:38 brothers was making bank now saban looked at this and thought hey we own the english license to digimon i want a digimon movie to make money surely digimon has a movie they do in fact there are four digimon movies one problem none of them are theatrical length the first is a 20 minute pilot the second is a 40-minute short film and the last two are a hour-long two-parter but saban was adamant they needed a theatrical digimon film so jeff nimoy sets out and writes a script the initial plan is to take the first two films and spliced them together to make one film while the third film would be released as a straight to dvd movie saban looked at the script and rejected it they wanted to use all three films and so the script was rewritten creating a monster of a

29:25 220 minute long film except this was also rejected this time due to budget reasons since fox didn't have enough money to make a 220 minute long film so this time they cut scenes from the movies especially from the third film and guess what they now want to add an angela anaconda short because angela anaconda and digimon happen to air around the same time and they mesh pretty well also it's not like time is a problem i should also point out that this film was also intended for foreign markets some markets not even airing the zero two content much less angela anaconda that's right people in many countries kids had to be confused as to what in the world angela anaconda was and who the zero two cast happened to be because that makes sense although according to the artist

30:10 of my current thumbnails who is from argentina the film aired without the angela anaconda short this might have been in some regions regardless it's advertisement get the kids interested in the next season so production continues with the release date coming up nothing can stop now oh right the screen actors guild they had a cow with this film so remember how i said voice over artists aren't paid residuals well sack had some stipulations as to what constitutes voice over work when sag got a hold of the digimon movie script they realized that what saban was making was something they had never encountered before what saban was doing was taking three foreign

30:55 films stitching them together like some frankenstein monster and making a completely new film that was significantly different from the source material sag issued a no work order stopping production of the film there was even a court case and let me tell you sag was not going easy on saban because guess what sag and saban already had history thanks to power rangers and anyone who knows anything about power rangers just knows how much of a [ __ ] show that production was for anyone who doesn't linkara does history of power rangers just watch any of the episodes prior to wild force or just read what happened to david yost yeah sag did not like zabon now something was eventually negotiated since the film did release what that entails i have no idea and not for lack of trying i did email sag after

31:41 about it didn't really get an answer probably something about it can't be legally talked about or it's been too long in the time that no one remembers uh more likely it had to do with residuals for home video sale and re-airings or something but once that was taken care of the production finished the film aired and critics hated it but that didn't matter as the film made money i mean not as much money as the pokemon film because of everything but it was a financial success but at what cost legacy wise uh not financially the legacy of this film is odd like i said the film is a critical failure but it did make money but not for long remember a big part of making these films are the residuals and while the film did air overseas on television domestic airings seem to have been limited which makes sense in 2002 disney would buy out saban

32:28 gaining access to the company's massive animation library the digimon film was an issue while disney at the time owned the digimon license the film itself was published by fox with the original five films owned by toei and while disney now owns fox they don't own the english license to digimon in fact i kind of suspect that this is part of the reason disney dubbed the next couple of films as a means to get additional content for jedex regardless this film isn't a sort of legal limbo it can't air without messing with someone's ownership that's also not taking into account sag regulations when it comes to residuals since now you have to pay two casts plus angel anaconda for their performance in this film and don't even think about publishing the japanese originals if my understanding of the industry is accurate this film is considered the english localization of those three

33:14 films point is this film has to contend with a lot of legal problems before it will ever re-air there is also the fact that this film destroyed angela anaconda i mean angela anaconda isn't the best show but the fact that most people hate angela anaconda and give it no chance is because of this film yeah also there's that story about a kid's parents getting a divorce because of angela anacond and well let's just say the ride never ends and then there is the most important question is this film canon run when you can one of the weirder elements of this film's legacy is its connection to the original series parts one and two are canon i mean the first is a pilot where the events are talked about in the show and the second part does get a sequel

34:01 film in the form of diaboromon's revenge but the third part it gets tricky ignoring how zero two had the whole digi distance around the world thing and how this movie takes place between episodes 21 22 there's an issue of wallace the film ends with wallace getting chokemon back but an audio drama released after zero 2 which features wallace without chocomon but then there's last evolution and wallace appears with chocomon yeah no matter how you look at it the third part makes no sense it's canon yet not can make up your mind film on a more positive note hasano would go on to make the film summer wars why is this important because the plot between summer wars and our war game are so

34:46 similar that our war game is considered something of a proto-summer wars film which is funny because that angela anaconda short at the start yeah it got retooled into a separate episode that omits the digimon stuff weird how coincidences work so yeah this film has an odd legacy and yet it's because of this legacy i recommend watching this film allow me to explain nowadays you can look at anime and ask do i want to watch the sub or the dub because both have their advantages and disadvantages but back in the early 2000s that really wasn't a thing if there was an anime you wanted to watch you basically had to hope it received an english dub oh sure you could buy a dvd or vhs copy of the japanese dub but that entails spending a pretty penny on footage that probably isn't even translated and if you don't speak japanese well tough so now you have to

35:34 hope the show gets picked up and dubbed for an english audience again expensive dvd and vhs purchase but now you also have to hope that the translation is accurate because guess what there are a lot of flyby operations trying to make a quick buck on anime ah you can pirate it you say well how youtube is still in its infancy and pirate bay isn't a thing yet you basically have to hunt for sketchy uploads of low quality rips of footage again untranslated and also with the high possibility of a virus so yeah your options are limited if you are truly unlucky your anime gets picked up by the likes of saban or kids wb and they butcher and hack your favorite anime into a low budget saturday mornings kids show and because they own the license

36:20 future releases are going to be based on that hack dub and even if that company gets bought out or goes under there's a high chance that your favorite anime will enter into a legal limbo never to be seen again this my friends is why i recommend watching this film because it's a time capsule of what anime was like in the early 2000s having to contend with subpar dubs that are seen as cheap cash grabs for a children's network how you have to just contend with what is out there with no means to see the original and while it's easy for me to say we have gotten better this leads me to the second reason to watch this film a warning of things to come anyone who is privy to the anime industry knows just how bad it is when it comes to localizers despite doing the important job of localizing a script translating

37:05 in a way that english speakers can understand they are grossly underpaid for their work but at least they're translating the shows accurately right not really whether because of pay disputes personal reasons are from orders from higher ups it has come to light that many localizations of anime often add in contexts that aren't present in the original show usually these are meant to add in a political or social agenda that's not present in the original airing but i mean youtube exists now so at least you can find original uploads of these shows right i mean you could for a while but due to copyright many of these uploads have since been removed a few still exist here and there but it's not like how it once was there are sites like crunchyroll but even these can be problematic localizations aside sites

37:51 like crunchyroll sometimes sit on the licenses either as a means to get all the episodes and then release them for binge watching are because they want the anime to be part of a lineup something crunchyroll has done to the likes of shaman king and high guardian spice but there might be a light at the end of the tunnel recently disco tech has announced that they are releasing a blu-ray release of digimon adventure the cartoon and a separate release of the japanese dub now while it's unlikely there is a slim chance that maybe just maybe we will get an english subbed version of these three films because the only alternative is to search ebay for used copies of these films which again unfortunately only includes our

38:37 war game and the zero 2 film since the adventure film appears to have not received an official dvd release but overall i do recommend watching this film between its great animation voice acting and music the film is a nice little popcorn flick the kids will like it even if the third part is not that great the biggest issue will be that the film kind of expects that you have watched the original anime kind of wish i had a synopsis or something which apparently it might have been in some versions but i won't dwell on that the english version is easy to find on ebay just bear in mind that you're dealing with 20 year old dvds as for the japanese versions again i highly recommend watching them except the third film if you're a big fan of digimon these japanese versions can be viewed as

39:23 more of a director's cut sort of situation they're hard to find though so be careful lots of bootleg dvds out there but yeah that's the review a nice little side adventure into the world of digimon i honestly did not expect the third film to be what it was or how messed up the production of this film was or how relevant it's this movie still is but that's the fun thing with reviewing shows like this you never know what you'll expect as for the other films i think i'll hold off on them footnotes and whatnot maybe a future review no one does talk about the ex-evolution film but first we still have the tv show with zero two next just hold on it's one more show till

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