Digimon The Movie: The Worst American Adaptation | Billiam

0:00 of their skin and that this is no more right than saying all teenagers are drunken dope addicts or glue [Music] sniffers don't you think it's strange that there's a way of how you looked and how you act and how you think pretend they not the same as you when discussing Digimon a fan must face the most disappointing aspect of the whole series The dubbed movie I mean it's really bad I would compare it to a firsttime fanedit.org project God where to begin so Pokemon the first movie and its sequel Pokemon the Movie 2000 were both huge box office draws so the executives at 20th Century Fox said I want that but

0:47 here's the problem unlike Pokemon Digimon didn't have a feature film what it did have were two short films and a 65 minute long two-part film the latter of which featured characters fans weren't yet familiar with when the prospect of the film came up the English writers prepared a cut featuring the first and second film put together but Fox demanded that they include the third film and create an overarching plot between all three uh needless to say that resulted in a huge mess Digimon the movie was released after the first Digimon series was over and the second Digimon series had just begun to air in the United States Fox pushed to have that third film included to promote the new series between the three films almost 40 minutes of footage was cut all

1:34 together with nearly 30 of those minutes coming from the final film which featured the new cast it was a disaster on all fronts the movie event you've been waiting for is coming to theaters this fall all right Digimon the movie this movie had a widespread theatrical release Le meaning that top level critics actually had to go and see it I was for when this movie came out and I loved it but I think I found the perfect quotation to summarize that young love parents might want to catch this film if only to discover how vast the Gap is between what they and their offspring consider compelling

2:21 entertainment Peter stack the San Francisco Chronicle so with 40 minutes cut you can imagine that the movie gets right to the point nope it begins with another Fox kid show promotion Angela andaconda the hyperactive upbeat children's show with the depressing art style of an experimental student film trying too hard to emulate David Lynch my name is Angela hey hello welcome to my Marion show well this show doesn't belong to you Angela you don't even go here it's a short featuring Angela and her friends going to the Digimon movie Digimon [Music] and first of all that's so unrealistic not a single theater showing this film

3:06 was that full when the popular girl takes her seat Angela imagines beating the [ __ ] out of her as a digimon does this make Angela and donda Anime it's just bizarre oh and also this isn't an extra thing included on the DVD this is included in the runtime of the movie this is Digimon Canon but it's actually a favor to the audience because it's giving you something horrible before it presents something slightly less horrible so the taste isn't as bad as it should be you know ding your senses ladies and gentlemen the digi rap the digu up did you see did did [Music] digy let me [Music]

3:52 you the best part about the digi WAP is the PNG images flying all over the screen you really put some money into this [Music] The Freshman Film School editing assignment starts off with Ki introducing her and her brother Ty that's me with TK that's my brother Ty when he was a little kid even back then he was a born leader Brave strong and graceful Ki was one of the youngest members of digimon's original team and Wi on to be a key player in the secondary team because she's the only character who has a key role in all three films she's is the narrator who Loosely holds the plots together Ki explains that everything started to happen that night his digital eventure

4:38 as well as ours began that night 8 years ago did you know there are actually Two Worlds our world and the digital world she refers to that night with a certain level of significance in the series the main characters all find a common connection with each other because they all witnessed a digimon fight near their homes 3 years before the events of the series this is that night in Japan the segment was shown before the series ever started but in America this was the first time audiences got to see it so one night a Digi egg comes out of their computer and it soon hatches into a digimon the segments with the baby Digimon try to be cute and funny but only one moment actually accomplishes that it worked about as well as his other

5:24 plans it's pretty cute the rest of the time is just loud and obnox ious like when the Rockefeller skank starts playing as coromon impregnates K and Tha with the xenomorph cut it out stop kissing my sister [Music] you his breath stinks so Digimon can transform or digivolve into larger stronger forms and as it happens an electrical disturbance occurs there's this scene that should be kind of mysterious and creepy but Ki narrates over it killing any potential mood now every time that thing changed shape or what we now call dig evolved there was a

6:10 weird electrical surge throughout the city she literally tells you what's going to happen 5 seconds before it does just let the audience figure it out so coromon now auman schleps around the city attacking everything in sight when another Digi egg hatches from the sky releasing parrotmon auman digivolves and fights it hell yes the Digimon anime had very limited animation so the scope of these giant monster battles were never fully realized but the shot where greymond walks over the kids is great so Greymon gets his ass kicked and faints K's had her whistle this whole time and Grayson greymond [ __ ] autoc correct gets wrecked so she tries to blow on it to motivate him but she's too tiny and is scared to blow on it well so Tai

6:57 steps in and kaboom Raymond wakes his lazy ass up and blast that Bird's Bird's ass Bird's bird ass the end I'm going to complain about pacing a lot because it's just one of the worst problems within the movie that and the constant influx of jokes if anybody asks where that weird looking egg came from let's tell him our chicken coop is on a nuclear waste dump my name is Ki KI and this is my brother his name is Ty Ty hi Ki Cari Ty Ty that's got to hurt when this one dig evolve he expanded more than my uncle Fred at Thanksgiving but yeah when you cut a

7:44 quarter of the film's run time you're going to have problems the use of the Digimon Theme and going digital ruin the scope of the battles these are characters that I've grown to know and really appreciate and I'm seeing them at a critical moment in their character development I shouldn't be so bored next so the next segment takes place four years after the first and we're introduced to Izzy who's a Digi destined here's what Ki didn't tell you 3 years after the first segment the kids who witnessed the Digimon fight all went to summer camp together and they ended up traveling to another world called a digital world full of monsters wanting to kill them and the partner Digimon

8:30 using a device called the Digivice the kids channel their energy into the Digimon allowing them to dig evolve the kids find out that they were chosen to protect the digital world from a darkness and are referred to as the digi Destin once they defeated the darkness the gate between the digital world and their World closed so the kids believe that they would never see their Digimon again Izzy was one of those kids along with Tai and Ki and a few others and Matt and TK this takes place a year after the event of the series so that's why that tiny little brat tie from the first segment is suddenly much older so one day Izzy is taking a moment off of e-bombs world it's topical cuz like 2000 and he notices a virus Digimon eating data Izzy contacts Tai and the two are reconnected with their Digimon via the Internet they send their partner Digimon into battle with the virus Digimon but

9:16 quickly get overwhelmed when it transforms to a higher level they try to contact the rest of the gang but everyone is either busy or ignoring them on purpose as the battle continues infermon travels around the world shutting down and disrupting community communication channels so Izzy buys a satellite uplink to connect to the internet via military satellite how rich is this kid through an emergency contact system Izzy and Tai are able to finally get TK and Matt two of their friends to send their partner Digimon into the fight as the whole world watches their Digimon fight diaboromon the high volume of email responses to Izzy and Tai slow their Digimon down as diaboromon uses Izzy's satellite uplink to launch a nuclear bomb needless to say this plot is really intense and very stressful

10:03 it's almost too smart for what it is in fact director of mamora Hoda actually knew that he later made a similar film called Summer Wars which basically remade the story in R war game the second Digimon film as a standalone movie I call R war game the tragic loss of the Digimon movie because it's genuinely pretty good it's just a shame that the movie had nearly 10 minutes cut from it to make it work within the Digimon movie what makes it work so well is the relatable stress that inhibits the battle from continuing time look something's wrong huh oh no they're slowing down huh come on everyone has been in a position where

10:49 they need to turn in a homework assignment or contact somebody and a faulty internet connection prevents them from doing so the fear of a hyperconnected world is one that's still portrayed in Media in video games and the fear of being out of Pepto while playing comp and OverWatch is just terrifying this could be it yeah great huh not that what's going on there's something wrong with me what is it I think it's your mother's recipes of course all of that is combined with the nuclear launch and a battle between giant Digital Monsters but then the recut pacing and there narration from Ki ruins that none of us are sure how but Tai's bond with war

11:34 Greymon was so strong Ty himself became digital listen in the last short we saw a giant parrot monster birth out of the sky and an egg beid by a computer screen you don't need to explain that this can happen in the world you just need to let the emotion play out it's kind of funny how much this film half ass as an explanation for the audience who hasn't seen Digimon it mostly expects that the audience is familiar with the series but it's not always presented that way the film doesn't have faith in you to connect multiple plot threads from within the film itself but once you have a question for something that happened

12:21 outside of the film in the actual series you get a kind of snarky response to me it comes off something like oh you haven't seen Digimon you should be ashamed of yourself it's just a shame the first segment and the second segment of the film take place both before and after the events of the series so the film could have easily been the 20 minute short and the 40-minute second film put together with a 10-minute interlude between the two explaining the events of the series for those who haven't seen it but in all reality this film is incredibly unforgiving to those who haven't seen Digimon and extremely disappointing for those who have connection terminated so of course they stop the

13:08 bad Digimon but right before he dies he whispers Willis the pacing up until this point has been rushed because of the edits but it's still just a bad adaptation this is where Digimon the movie really starts to turn into something a little bit more sinful so we've had an introduction to the world and then a challenge for the characters we were introduced to with two separate sets of Beginnings middles and ends and we followed a few characters for a majority of the film but now we're scrapping all of that and doing another time Skip and now we're introduced to a whole new cast of characters within the last 30 minutes of the film the [ __ ] you to this is that the Digimon O2 cast aren't even the main characters this American [ __ ] Willis is so throughout the film Willis is name

13:54 dropped to fabricate a connection between the first two segments with the last one Curry explains that the same night they got their Digi egg Willis received twin Digimon and in the second segment Izzy receives an email from Willis where he blames himself for the virus Digimon so TK and Ki are on vacation in New York and they follow Willis to Colorado cuz his Digimon cocomon keeps telling him to go back to the beginning the new cast ends up in America too and then they fight the bigger cocomon and he turns them all into little kids and then they win the fight maybe but cookon is dead but not really because Digimon don't die okay so the third film got cut more than any other one it was a 65-minute film and now it clocks in at just over 30 so the

14:40 plot doesn't really make any sense because they literally butchered it which leads to scenes like this but every time he tries to tell me why the virus stops him he just can't fight it I know this won't end until he's destroyed but I can't do it it's all my fault not his what's the matter with you you that's the saddest story I ever heard I'm the one with the problem not you get over it okay that was fast hey you know that time waster at the beginning of the film would it have been nice if that scene we just watched had an extra 30 seconds and that beginning thing was just cut entirely it's easy to watch this movie and call it mindless

15:25 and frantic when there are scenes like this than to beat him the new digon will have to use the power of the golden Digi eggs come on we have to dig to our mega form so we can release the golden Digi eggs anamon warp dig Ball 2 s and woman D to magron what here's my favorite piece of editing mess so the kids are on the beach and you have this Digimon named Von who's suddenly his bigger form then his smaller form and then his bigger form again yeah the plot to the Japanese dub had kocoon kidnapping the original Digi destined which is why all of the kids went to America in the first place

16:12 but all of that is removed and the movie ends with Allstar by Smashmouth no seriously only Sometimes They Come Back singing a different tune for the Hey Now You're an star get your game on go play Hey Now You're a rockar get the show on get paid and Bre so this movie was a joke the theatrical release of this movie was a joke the the film can just be summarized

16:59 as a YouTube video titled the first three Digimon films but the ending is Allstar Fox is really ahead of the meme curve this film is a disaster this is literally the worst example of an English adaptation to an anime the only good thing I can say about it is the soundtrack is cool I don't mean how the soundtrack is used in the movie I mean just the regular old soundtrack is cool ever been close to tragedy been close to folks have have you ever felt the pain so powerful so heavy you collapse oh [Music] no in a way this soundtrack was a defining part of my childhood in my mid teens like no [ __ ] I was introduced to a

17:47 lot of bands that I really continue to like for over a decade and kind of still do today here I am 5 years ago 16 years old at a Less Than Jake concert to be honest they totally just beefed up the soundtrack to have the original songs written for Digimon pushed but I'm cool with that did you see did you hear did you know what's coming Destiny today let me hear you say I don't want to live on this planet anymore the soundtrack starts off with the digi rap and the movie ends with Allstar by Smashmouth I'm actually starting to think this is the greatest film of all time there was even a music video for the song where the kids in America made for the movieid Amica kid

18:37 am that's kind of [Music] neat check and you're watch I'm not leing now awesome more juice Izzy I just squeezed some onions Digimon the movie the Digimon movie is a messy weird film they try to string together three unrelated plots taking place years apart in order to create a narrative but instead what we get is a series of films edited down to have the pacing of an A Bridge series it's a nonsensical frantic film that destroyed its opportunity to show how cool the series can be because it can really be

19:23 cool usually when I review things I kind of have a Sentimental moment at the end especially especially if I grew up with it where I kind of say this has flaws but I love it because it was an important part of my childhood I loved Digimon growing up and I really liked this movie as I was growing up but I I can't defend it now it's not an innocent film I sincerely think our war game is good and it kind of disappoints me to see that the only English dub of this movie is butchered I'm really happy that the Digimon movie is hard to track down I got my copy for about 10 bucks at a closing Blockbuster a few years ago but if you want to get even a used copy now it's going to cost you upwards towards $50 generally I'm a proponent of an

20:10 English dub because usually anime is animated first and voice over afterwards so no matter what language you're getting it in the animation quality isn't different but please if for whatever reason you want to watch Digimon movie track down the Japanese dub of our war game Digimon is sort of seeing a small Resurgence in popularity with better video games coming out in the Digimon triy series revisiting the original cast I'm sort of hoping this small Resurgence and popularity may lead to a re-release of these films and possibly a redub but I'm not expecting that to happen anytime soon until then we have limited access to the worst English dub of all time as the saddest story I ever

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