Digimon The Movies Collection: Our War Game, Hurricane Touchdown Blu-Ray/New Dub Review [Soundout12]

0:00 the Digimon the movie DVD has been out of print for 24 years and for many fans it's been a hard thing to find well no longer because now we have a Blu-ray edition of the movie in its original Japanese as well and with a new English tub let's take a look It's morphin time hello this is s here and welcome to my review of Digimon the movies or movie collection one from discotech media this is a Blu-ray release of the first three Digimon movies Digimon Adventure Digimon Adventure R war game and Digimon Adventure 02 hurricane touchdown the Transcendent gold golden digim mentals

0:46 sorry that one's got a long title these are the first three movies they were known when they released originally in North America as Digimon the movie yes it's time for some history if you haven't learned the history from other Digimon videos videos I made history on um if you can notice I make a lot of Digimon videos so please go check them out because they don't always do super good on the channel and I really appreciate it anyways the short version is that the Digimon the movie that was released in theaters in North America by uh sabon Productions is a 90minut recut or an 83 minute recut of about 2 hours and 10 minutes of movies three of them in fact and so that's what's presented here is the three movies in their original form as well as the Digimon the movie edit

1:33 and that is so exciting plus it's all in beautiful hd so this is not the first disco Tech release um if you hadn't noticed I reviewed the others we got so much to talk about that's why it's getting its own Standalone video CU this is like a a heck of a a Monumental moment but before we get too far in please be sure to hit the like button hit subscribe and the notification Bell if you haven't already because this is how the video gets out to more people this is how the channel grows and is how I do more videos on Digimon because I absolutely love Digimon so let's begin by taking a look at disco Tech's release itself let's look at the physical packaging of it so this is the cover uh it's not my favorite discotech uh Digimon cover you know they usually you know this is how uh how some of them

2:19 have been where it's got a nice like character portrait It's Tricky there's there's not really a good merged poster of these three and I say good because this one's an atrocious Abomination like these are all character wrong I don't know whose eyes those are it's a mess we don't want to use that we want to use something more accurate and especially because the implication of calling this movie collection one movies 1 to three implies there's a movie collection 2 with movies 4 to 6 or 4 to 7 or whatever it is cuz I don't exactly know what the plan is but this implies there's going to be more movie sets in fact this isn't even all the adventure movies there's a second Digimon Adventure 02 movie which which would be Movie 4 now you will notice does say English and Japanese versions yes because with discotex so

3:05 far uh we've had because of the nature of the original dubs we've had to have uh sets that are the English language version which includes all the edits all the onscreen text edits for the name changes and the English dub which was produced for a American syndication block which means it had have room for commercial so things were cut openings endings change also the editing was a lot different to add more commercial breaks plus some scenes were cut for broadcast standards so these sets the English language sets are the English dub and then there is a separate set of the original Japanese version which is your fully uncut version there was not a way to syn the dubs from this onto the Japanese video and make a dual audio release because they're just too different with this Set uh we have just

3:51 the first season uh Digimon Adventure on Japanese we haven't gotten Digimon Adventure 02 in Japanese yet though it is on the way and we have gotten the English dubs of Digimon season 1 and season 2 but with the movies here they put the English and Japanese in the same and that's because some really cool stuff was done here so let's get these out of the way let's get these out of the way for the moment um so like I said not my favorite cover type but I can see like the next set having three more movies and their three specific posters on the back you can see that we have Digimon on the big screen that's a line from the famous Digi rap the first three movies did evolve into Blu-ray completely uncut with an allnew English dub bringing back the original cast yes so what we have here is the three movies

4:37 in their original Japanese language version with original music all uncut everything like that presented beautifully and we'll talk about that and then there is a new English dub for each of these three movies where they got back the existing cast uh anyone who hadn't passed away or retired is back it's incredible actually uh how many people came back to do this and it's really really cool and we will of course talk about that but it does of course include Digimon the movie The Original dub remastered in high definition for the first time and there was some work they had to do with that plus there even his bonus features on top of this whole thing and this set runs about 23 bucks which is pretty incredible all right so let's talk about the spine uh we got a nice picture of omegamon or omnimon up

5:23 there Digimon the movies you can see collection one and it does have the original Digivice movies 1 to3 English and like English and Japanese versions so when you have this thing on your shelf it looks like that and so that means it lines up perfectly with your other Digimon sets so whether you have the English the Japanese or both It lines up nice and neat as you can see the language options you know the the count of things plus the volume number and the names and the character portraits up top now where you should put it on the Shelf is entirely up to you if you want to go chronologically the first movie takes place prior to the series so you could put it there you could also do the thing of putting it at the end kind of like oh hey here's the

6:10 shows here's the movies and then also I know uh people are flip-flopping on how they do this some might want to have you know what I do on my shelf and this is the plan is Go Japanese English Japanese English Japanese English so for example we just have English English here I'm planning to have the Japanese version of 02 there and I'll have the movies follow it so that way it's kind of like here's your shows here's your movies and I kind of like that I kind of like that I also do like that it is a blue spine but it's more of a purplish blue as opposed to the lighter blue used for adventure and for season 1 so I am loving the way this packaging has been turning out uh the people at discotech who work on the Digimon sets are absolute Legends because consistent spines is a tricky

6:56 thing and uh finally getting to to get all this together like this is looking beautiful I can't wait for more all right so let's get to uh the rest of the physical package once you slide the slip cover off you get the same cover art same back art same spine popping it open you have the disc it is all on one disc these movies are not long enough for that to be a problem and you can see we have the three uh Japanese posters the textless versions in the back of uh of the back sheet which is pretty nice and then we have the disc now I wasn't exactly sure whose eye this is I tried checking it I think it's omegamon omnimon let me know in the comments but you can see movie collection one movies 1 to three so now is the moment of truth let's get this thing into the Blu-Ray

7:42 player let's point the camera at the TV and let's talk about each individual movie their new dubs the bonus features the visual the audio all that good stuff let's get to it all right so the menu for the disc plays a montage of clips from the movies you got Digimon the movies you got original uncut B American movie and Extras so let's just start from the basics if you click original uncut you'll have the option of playing all and selecting the three movies you come down here you can switch from your new English dub or your original Japanese audio let's start with the Japanese and take a look at a couple things and we'll select movie one so the subtitles are presented the same way they are on the individual series sets and of course they do have the original Japanese names on the Japanese audio because it's going to match what is being said signs in the movie are

8:28 represented by on screen text and it is colored and styled similar to the sign that is presented and I think that's really really cool this also appears when you select the English audio which is really nice throughout the set songs are subtitled where it's got the Japanese romanji translation in purple and then in blue you have the English transliteration of it which is pretty cool so that way you get kind of a singalong feature as well as getting the song lyrics themselves now switching over to Movie 2 when you have the Japanese audio version selected the onscreen text will keep uh taichi's original surname Yagami as opposed to Kya which is what they used for the English dub and it will be intact on the Japanese version now if you switch to the English dub the screen subtitles change to go to Kamia and that is

9:15 because the English dub will still use the familiar dub terms from the original series to kind of flow it together while the dubs themselves we'll talk about in a minute it is nice that the onscreen text does change depending on which version you're looking looking at that is insane levels of detail here one of my favorite instances of subtitling can fix everything um the Yagami that was on the family sign for their apartment um in the subtitles is scratched out and it says the Kamya family this is hilarious it's like they moved in recently and the the sign was wrong so they scratched it out uh of course in the Japanese version this subtitle part does not appear um but in the English dub it does have this like nice scratch out the Kamya family bit which I think is hilarious it even

10:02 extends to the uh farther away shot which is this is incredible I've never seen subtitle work uh done like this this is just Next Level stuff it's honestly hilarious but also really dedicated to making sure everything's consistent I don't really have anything to say about the Japanese version of the third movie but it is nice to finally see this full version there's an entire subplot in this movie about the original six disy Destin getting kidnapped and that's just got completely cut out of the American edit of the movie but let's talk about the American edit of the movie before we get to the new dubs so for the combined version Digimon the movie you want to click combined American movie you'll have play as an option you can also switch between English 5.1 and 2.0 and you can turn captions on and off which is fantastic

10:48 but let's take a look at this you guys remember when 20th Century Fox was a thing yeah all the logos are fully intact this is the same version that we have seen before but now everything's been updated to HD now that being said not everything is going to look consistent on this version so things like the fox Kids logo as well as the preceding credit sequence which is stuff that was made for Digimon the movie specifically it definitely still looks good but it looks a little crunchier than the rest of the movie's footage and the reason for this is because this had to come off a film print whereas the most of the footage from the movie could come from the Japanese Blu-ray master so for a lot of the movie it's going to look pretty stellar because it is using that same video master from the Japanese version but it does have the English

11:34 audio fully intact the dub is the same all the licensed music is here it is fully the version that we saw in the theaters in 2000 and on the DVD but now in full HD and in the proper aspect ratio now where the video quality does get a little funky is when there was onscreen changes for example Von spelled out veon is the way it appears in the English dub whereas in the Japanese version It's v-m n so because of that there is some shots that look a little like I think worse for wear because they're not from the Japanese Blu-ray and I'm not exactly sure how much work had to go into uh changing the text or Uprising it from a different copy because definitely this shot of flame germon uh is looking a little crispy in some areas it's not bad it's really quick it's super minor but this is a

12:21 case of you know it says flame drummon in the background instead of f Dramon which is in the Japanese version so it doesn't look as nice as it does on the Japanese copy of it I'm not exactly sure how much working into this but I appreciate that they kept it they could have just used the Japanese footage and said well too bad the text's different but they wanted to recreate the original version of the movie as perfectly as possible and also as you can see all the onscreen text changes still intact on this version of the movie which is great okay now it's time to get into the new English dubs so we going to go here we're g to switch over to English and let's talk about each movie's dub independently and I'll give you my overall thoughts on it so before we get into the dubs themselves I appreciate that there's a separate English credits for the set it plays after the third

13:07 movie and it has all of the production staff and the voice cast and all of that in a nice uh reel to put together all of the credits needed for these movies all right so here is the production credit staff for Digimon Adventure which is the first movie and I got to say this dub really works uh it was a really nice kind of throwback a lot of the voices are retained we'll talk about the voice cast in a moment but it just captures the energy of the Japanese version of the movie and in general what they did which I think was kind of smart is that they took some of the things that people really liked about the original dub and then worked it into the new dub so for example there's a scene where auman almost gets hit by a truck and there's the two truck drivers have this dialogue

13:54 exchange of did you see that no I was sleeping but you're driving it's one of the funniest gags of the original dub they kept that in the new dub and I'm glad that it's there they didn't keep all the gags and they kind of streamlined it and made it fit the tone of the Japanese version more with a few jokes to punch it up which is kind of similar to how some of the more recent Digimon dubs have done for the English versions so I think it kind of keeps it consistent while it's still being faithful to the Japanese version it's not completely rewriting it as if you are watching the English dub the original English dub of the show you can watch this version of the movie and not feel it's completely out of place a way that a straight dub would be so I think it was a good adaptation and a good way to work things together all right we're going to go through the cast here and talk about who was new and who came back

14:41 and just kind of General things so there was only two new cast members from the original cast uh red greymond was voiced This Time by Bryce papen Brook his father Bob papenbrook voiced uh red greymond in the original movie dub and unfortunately Bob pen Brook has passed away so it's really cool as Sun got to play that part um there was some Voice work done in post to make sure he get to the lower range that his father had Bryce has a much higher range voice than than Bob did and so it was just really cool that they were able to do that and allow him to play the role that his father played and kind of have that Legacy uh connection I think that was super cool the other new cast member is Doug air Holtz as Tai's father because Tai's father was cut out of the original

15:27 English dub because this is the only time we see a glimpse of his father and he is drunk in the original version of the film and he is in the new English dub but they couldn't have that in the original English dub so he was completely cut but Doug a Holtz does a great job in that part other than that Joshua Seth Returns His tie Laurel Miller returns as Ki Peggy O'Neal is bodmon Brienne sadal is coromon Michael sorich is Big aguman Dorothy Fawn is Tai's mom Michael s's greatest role ever moo the cat David Lodge's parm and Jeff nemoy and Bob Boltz both play the two truck drivers and there's some other smaller cast rolles down here to fill in extra voices all right for the second movie our war game once again it's very similar to the way that Digimon Adventure was dubbed where it's played more straight but they do add some of the iconic jokes in there some of the

16:14 iconic lines so that way it still has that familiar feel all right so with this cast it's much bigger cuz it is a longer movie and I think that it's absolutely fantastic casting wise let's go through some of the new casts so first of all LC love loock replaces Feliz sampler as Mimi and that is because unfortunately Fel sampler passed away a few years ago at least llck does a great job you can't even hardly tell that it is a different person she does such a spot-on version of Mimi in this movie as well as the next one and I'm really impressed for Joe Eli farmer is replacing Michael Lindsay Michael Lindsay sadly passed away and Eli farmer does a great job as Joe he really has the voice the Cadence the tone you can tell that I think with both Elise Lovelock and Eli Farmer they were fans

16:59 and they've got a really good versions of these voices and these characters down Bradley Gareth replaces Michael Lindsay as greymond because of course Michael Lindsay sadly passed away Bradley Gareth also does metal greymond replacing Joseph palado who also sadly passed away Jeremy Le does Boman replacing Tiffany Christian because Tiffany Christian did retire so cherem L does a great job as Boman again you can hardly tell with a lot of these uh you know actors playing these parts and that's a testament to their their skill as an actor to be able to step into somebody else's role and provide a similar performance to match to what they're trying to match to uh j i is played by Jason Monera replacing Mike Reynolds who sadly passed away Elise Lovelock also plays Grandma asida replacing Feliz sampler of course also passed away returning was Joshua Seth as

17:47 Tai Mona Marshall as Izzy Michael rise as Matt Wendy Lee as TK Colleen noesy as Sora Laura Jill Miller as Ki all do a great job on the Digimon side of things auman is still Tom Fawn does a great job I think Tom Fon hasn't lost the aaman voice whatsoever Lex Ling is war graymon fantastic Jeff Nemo is tenton kabutaron and mega kabutaron Kirk thoron as gaban guran and metal guran Lex Ling Kern Thorton sharing the omnimon part Laura summer as paman Eddie merman as gatan Anna Garduno as palman R Martin Klein as gaman Paul St Peter as caramon infon and diaab boraman Dorothy f as Tai's mom and Michael sorich as Miko the cat and you can also see some other additional voices here really great work from

18:33 everybody it just this is one of the I think these three dubs in particular I think are some of the best Digimon dubs I think ever made and I I don't say that hyperbolically I think they are really solid all right for Movie 3 this was a tricky one because a majority of this movie was cut in the original English dub so they started from scratch the whole plot is different than the way it is the third segment of Digimon the movie I'm really impressed with this dub it's actually making me enjoy this movie more than I did in the Japanese version all right we're going to focus on the new cast that wasn't in the previous two movies so first of all uh the let's talk about the new casts that are not returning Jessica Peterson replaced uh Tiffany Christian as Yoli Tiffany Christian retired she does great Yoli it's just spot-on perfect voice casting

19:19 meline Doro replaces Feliz sampler as Cody that's cuz fle sampler sadly passed away great Cody voice I think it's a really solid match to the character more so than some of the more recent dubs Wayne Grayson does a really good oamon he was replacing Dave mow who had retired Wayne Grayson also does armadillon replacing Robert Axelrod who sadly passed away Wayne Grayson's armadillomon is really good uh armadillomon has been kind of tricky he's appeared in two movies recently and both times The Voice just sounded completely off of what armadillomon had been in English Wayne Grayson does a really good armadillomon and I'm happy to hear that with anaman and saraiman it's now Bradley Gareth replacing Dave mow cuz Dave mow retired and then Jeremy Lee is added to the cast as lmon because that was a character cut from the original movie in terms of returning

20:05 cast Brian Donovan hasn't missed a step with Davis just fantastic stuff Bob globerman as Willis also doesn't feel like he's missed a step K of course Laura Jill Miller still got it Doug a Holtz is TK still great Derek Steven Prince as Demi vmon and vmon still has that voice Steve Bloom as flameon reron and magnamon Mona Marshall does a great job as terryon still Michael as gargomon lexl as rapidmon Neil Kaplan as hawkmon and hamon Tom Fawn as digmon Eddie merman as gotaman Andre Wan and Magna Geron Laura summer as paman Wendy Lee as cocoman Paul St Peter as woan and cherubimon and then everybody from the original six Digi Destin from the previous movie all still great in this it's really nice to see a complete dub

20:50 of this movie so for extros we have Japanese trailers which is a collection of Japanese trailers a special interview a movie to making of Digimon the movie recap special and 2024 English dub bloopers so first of all the special interview is about Digimon Adventure and our war game has director mamaru hosoda and producer haromi ski talking about the two movies which is really really awesome movie 2 making of is a five minute feature that was broadcast on toy channel in February 2000 and is about the making of Digimon Adventure R war game the Digimon the movie recap special is a six-minute piece that was produced for the English language dub kind of recapping the Digimon shows up to that point to get you ready for the movie I vaguely remember seeing this somewhere but I can't remember exactly where it first came out and then we have a

21:36 blooper reel of bloopers and outakes from the recording of the new English dubs these get very unhinged but they're kind of fun and it's also kind of fun with how many of the bloopers are voice cracks where the where the voice just couldn't keep up in that range it's really fun they had a lot of fun making these and the last comment in this blooper reel from terryon is probably one of the most unhinged things I've ever heard and that makes for a good blooper reel other bonus features we have two galleries so production art is going to be well a production art gallery and just like most discotech releases you can just forward through with the arrows and you get some nice images of the production art and behind the scenes things for the movies and then there's a movie posters gallery and this movie posters Gallery is of course a gallery of different posters like there's the textless version of Digimon

22:22 Adventure there's the version with the text that sort of thing which is really cool overall stacked with bonus features includes the combined American movie The Original uncut with a new dub this is pretty much everything you could ever ask for out of these three movies and discotech has delivered so the question becomes if you have the original DVD should you keep it yeah probably uh it is a nice novelty piece but there is two things on this DVD that did not make it to this Blu-ray the first thing is the infamous Angela Anaconda pre short Fox kids was pushing the Angela Anaconda show and they produced a new short where the kids go see the Digimon movie and that plays on the top of this DVD it did not make it to this Blu-ray because of Licensing that is not something a lot of people like people don't like the Angela

23:09 Anaconda short so I don't think that's a knock against the Blu-ray set but if you want it it is on this DVD the other thing which is a loss for culture the uh Kids In America music video by Len just kidding not really it's not that great it's just a music video I'm sure you can find it online um that is was there just because that song was used in the movie it was promoted with it it it's not on here but that's fine because at least the song is still in the movie where it was for preservation sake the other thing I want to point out is that this wasn't a pan and scan aspect ratio so it was 4x3 and then they would pan and scan the shots depending on what they should be because they originally were in 16x9 which of course as we just saw beautiful 16x9 for all intents and purposes this

23:55 is absolutely the 100% th% % better release than the original DVD but for those of you that have to have everything the original DVD does have that angel Anaconda short and that music video otherwise this is 100% an upgrade and we have lost nothing and only gained so much more so that does it for this review I cannot recommend this enough if you're a digimon fan absolutely worth the pickup and because of the price I'd say even if you're not collecting the shows it's definitely worth picking up for the movies because it is a heck of a good value the new dubs are great the the presentation is wonderful having both all three versions I should say in one set is amazing the bonus features are just a cherry on top absolutely one of the best disc releases of the year in my personal opinion and it's not just

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