The Digimon Adventure & 02 Movies - Retrospective Vol. 1 | Billiam

0:00 the digimon movie a cautionary tale for why a bridge series are evil the american digimon movie was a frankenstein designed by committee film which fox rushed out in october of 2000 to compete with another much more popular mon movie the only problem is at that point digimon didn't have any feature films what it did have was a collection of shorts and ovas both canon and non-canon originally the english producers of digimon wanted the movie to only be the first two shorts cut together but the executives at fox wanted to include the ova because it featured the new cast of characters from the then current version of digimon it's a bit of a mess i stated in my digimon the movie review that the original versions of these films are better but i

0:45 really didn't elaborate on why the fact of the matter is the original versions are just different products entirely with different tones and even story lines so i wanted to take an opportunity to check out all of the digimon films this series is currently planned to be split into three parts the first will be me covering the adventure in zero two films the second digimon tamers and frontier films and the third will be everything else number one digimon adventure released in 1999. this film was released as a part of a toei film festival which aimed to preview upcoming toei projects it was directed by momoro hasoda who would later go on to direct some highly critically acclaimed films including the girl who leapt through time and the boy and the beast although the film serves as a preview for digimon adventure within the series itself it

1:31 actually ends up playing a pretty important role in the plot also sidenote i am going to be using the english names just because i think it's what my audience will be most familiar with one day kari and her older brother tai receive a special egg through a computer screen it hatches the fun and energetic coral mon who as the movie progresses grows into larger forms at one point coramon escapes with kari and tai has to chase after them eventually a much larger egg comes from the sky and hatches a giant parrot digimon koromon grows one last time to defeat it before disappearing in the digimon movie i always loved this segment but while watching the original version it's clear a lot of the tone and style is lost it's mysterious it's slow building and when the final battle hits it's exciting and

2:16 terrifying i mean this shot wasn't in the english dub i love giant monster films and although digimon always features giant monsters it never truly feels kaiju but in this the low angles property destruction and human perspective really makes it feel like a proper godzilla mon film even the final fire blast from greymon feels like godzilla's atomic breath i also love how much like small small children kari and ty are although they are kids in the anime it's definitely an anime protagonist kind of kid they're small but they're just as intelligent as a young adult but here they're little kids totally helpless it's fun and exciting and definitely worth that 20 minute run time number two children's war game or r war game as the

3:04 posters and most wiki articles call it this film was also directed by mamuro hasoda it has a 40 minute run time and was released on march 4th 2000 as a part of the same festival which showcased digimon adventure march 4th is also when the film takes place what a neat and fun fact this film wow i truthfully think our war game may be the crown jewel of all the digimon films and maybe even of digimon itself well not as a standalone work but as a part of the digimon adventure series taking place over spring break the year after the kids get back from the digital world a digimon has invaded the internet and begins tampering with computer systems around the globe izzy is the first of the original digi destin to take notice and heads over to tai's house to warn him of the danger it can impose after

3:50 nearly a year izzy and ty are able to get back in contact with the digimon but this time over the internet unfortunately for a multitude of reasons they're unable to get a hold of the other children to help tackle the threat together eventually matt and tk are contacted and they try to take down the digimon before it can detonate a nuclear warhead in tokyo bay our war game is tense it's heartwarming and it's entertaining as heck what makes it interesting is the logistical challenge between accessing the internet in the early 2000s and a fight against a strong enemy if it were just one of these things it'd be fine but it's the combination of two which makes it cool i really like it in action scenes when there's multiple things to worry about it's not just a fight but there's something else going on as well when ty and izzy are having trouble contacting

4:36 people have their internet connection go out or when matt and tk can't find a computer connected to the internet it helps make the action relatable because everyone with an internet connection has run into similar issues when trying to do a much more mundane task like sending an important email or submitting an assignment even the solutions the characters find to these problems feel real like the satellite cell phone the voicemail tag etc also because we feel for the characters already when war greymon and metal gurumon have their butt kicked it's pretty hard to take if this were a standalone film i don't think that would be the case but that's the benefit of working with established characters you can do mostly plot-driven stuff because the audience is already sold on the characters and the world i mean matt is barely in the movie but

5:22 we're still sad for him when his digimon is hurt when wargreymon and metal gurumon combine at the end of form omnimon it's awesome and that final stab to diaboromon's head is wicked cool in fact hasoda liked this film so much that he ended up taking a lot of the concepts and remaking it from the ground up without digimon in a film called summer wars both summer wars and our war game are definitely worth a watch number three digimon hurricane touchdown transcendent evolution the golden digimentals that's a long title because it's actually two titles this film premiered during the summer toei film festival only a few months after our war game it aired in two parts with another short airing between the two and it was

6:08 later released on dvd before i made this video this was actually the only digimon movie i hadn't seen in its original form and because of that it totally surprised me it's pretty good while visiting mimi in america tk and kari come across a boy named willis who's tracking down an evil digimon mimi along with the other original digidestined are captured the rest of the zero 2 gang davis yoli and cody get word of this and travel to america to help tk and kari rescue the original digidestined once there the gang meet up with willis and his digimon terriermon as they head to summer memory a spot where willis terriermon and his twin kokomon the original form of the evil wendingomon originally met at some point pokemon was struck with a type of virus in turned evil it meets up with

6:53 willis years later but is unable to recognize him so he starts kidnapping all the other characters with the same digivice and turning them younger in hopes he'll recognize them as willis the other kids help willis track down wendigomon who gets progressively more and more removed from its original form in hopes that they can save the other kids while these shorts are by no mean excellent they are pretty good in the digimon movie they received the worst treatment with nearly 30 minutes being cut from the original hour run time what resulted were these frantic nonsensical action pieces cut together with awkwardly paced dialogue scenes the original piece is the exact opposite it's slow it's filled with these little funny quiet moments and the action is anything but exciting in fact it's a bit

7:40 depressing wendigomon is willis's digimon and because it has become a danger to others willis has to come to the conclusion to kill it and that storyline is never lost within the tone of the film what should be exciting action scenes are undermined by this slow creepy music and the characters getting genuinely stressed when they see their digimon get hurt [Music] you really feel that this is a hard decision for willis to come to when windigomon is finally defeated there's not a big triumphant attack it just ends almost anti-climatically i mean of course there's a cool new digivolution and angelwoman shows up which isn't related to anything but i

8:25 still enjoyed it this wasn't what i was expecting it to be it's a little bit of a bummer and a low note but if you like digimon i definitely recommend watching it it's interesting to see these characters in a cleaner constructed plot than zero two zero two is such a mess that it's really easy to nitpick and the characters are more likely to get on my nerves but in this context i think they work for example because of the more subdued tone davis's frantic personality works a lot better it balances out also if you look at it it appears many of these plot points were repeated in digimon try just with the cast swapped i mean the original kids go missing and due to an infection a new member of the group has to come to the conclusion to kill their digimon the only difference here is the zero two kids care about

9:11 finding the original digi destin and in try they quickly forget about it huh i guess the difference between the zero two cast and the original cast or the fact that the zero two cast are actually good human beings apparently number four the digimon movie okay so i know i talked about this one in a whole 20 minute video but i wanted to have another go at it because i made it seem a lot worse than it actually is since going back and watching a lot of digimon i've realized i really do appreciate the digimon movie for what it is it's silly it's funny at times and its soundtrack is truly awesome it introduced me to a lot of music that i grew to really appreciate as an older teenager and it definitely is a fun watch for digimon fans even if it's a total disaster from outside observers what i'm saying is it's fun and it has the one thing every

9:57 other digimon movie is missing the digi wraps number five the revenge of diaboromon while the first three uh 3.5 digimon movies never received a proper adaptation many actually did in 2001 disney bought saban and with it the rights to digimon's english dub to promote reruns over the first four seasons on disney's new programming block jedex disney brought the original english producers on to do a dubbed adaptation of the then remaining four digimon movies including the revenge of diaboromon the revenge of diaboromon is a potentially canon maybe non-canon sequel to digimon adventure 0-2 taking

10:45 place three months after the show's finale theoboromon the virus digimon from our war game is back and this time it's got a different plan it's going to escape into the physical world it sets a trap for some of the digi destin but then starts sending itself as tiny low data versions of itself through people's cell phones before it can finally come together and get big revenge of diaboromon is probably at the bottom of my list for digimon adventure movies it's not bad it's just not that interesting the idea of diaboromon sending itself as smaller bits of data is clever but in a huh kind of way not enough oh that's awesome kind of way like an our war game the final battle between omnimon and armageddomon in tokyo bay and later imperial dramon is awesome the highlight of these films are

11:32 the higher quality animation and it really shows in the choreography like omnimon blasting armageddon in its mouth that will always be cool and there's little moments too like the sound of matt's harmonica and kari's whistle coming together to be a representation of omnimon's energy that really gets back to the heart of digimon which is the kids interacting with giant monsters omnimon is defeated and so is imperial dramond but their energy combines to make a new version of imperial german paladin mode which finishes the fight it's cool and the half hour run time makes the film's lack of substance enjoyable i wish more dumb action movies were 30 minutes they'd be fun that way instead they're two and a half hours and the lack of substance becomes apparent all too quickly the digimon movies are

12:17 cool because it's an opportunity to see these characters animated well the action is cool the expressions are fun and all around they're just enjoyable stay tuned for next time where i'm going to cover the films from digimon tamers and frontier also i already have a digimon adventure try video up if you want the complete digimon adventure film series for now this video is not sponsored this week but i do have some new t-shirts available if you want to get them they're from my cafe billiam hipster trash line the merchandise shelf is right below this video it's kind of based off of t-shirts that i see from craft breweries and local coffee shops so if you want to go grab some they're in the description down below i also have social media links that are in the

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