Digimon: The Movie | Son of Kaiju Review

0:00 hello and welcome to another edition of son of kind your view i'm protomex i am tank and he's a liar you're right i'm not proto-met i'm tem author yes explain the joke that makes it even funnier yeah uh today we will be taking a look at digimon the movie clowns uh glo clowns not guaranteed for free hats for uh for those of you who are not aware digimon was an anime series

0:48 is an anime series and we're probably going on and will probably always be an anime series but with like breaks in between but specifically this movie is uh tied into the first two seasons of the english dub of the series and it's actually a compilation of three separate digimon movies because if we just did one of each there'd be two short that's probably what they were going for with the release of this movie which again is just three movies combined into one and that's prob they probably needed to be a certain length in order to even get it into theaters yeah because like literally each little

1:34 we've watched these like um separately separately and they're probably the length of a digimon episode roughly except for the third one but that one that's a good partner yeah that one's uh that's weird yeah but we'll we'll get to that when we get to that but uh this this compilation of the movies though came out in the u.s during the second season's run and uh as a result it features some jumbling of things and yes a lot of uh cute added in humor that just wasn't present in the original version no but i have to say though i didn't mind the music choices they

2:21 oh yes for the america well i will definitely say that i much prefer the japanese versions of the movies uh this movie's general soundtrack is pretty darn good like not so much the background music which is mostly taken from just the english dub of digimon and in general but the actual songs that randomly come in play of like rambunctious scenes of silliness yeah i'll uh talk about those towards the end so remind me to do so cause uh he's putting a lot of pressure on me folks but uh i suppose we should start with

3:06 the first of the three movies simply titled digimon adventure which acts as a prequel to the first season of the series and focuses on young versions of tai and kari from well the main series the show does actually tie back into this at a later point which uh kind of flew over american audiences heads since we didn't have access to that to this movie at the time but um it's uh a pretty simple movie directed by mamuro hosoda who would go on to also direct the second of the three movies in this compilation

3:52 and uh the basic plot is a couple kids uh encounter an egg that comes out of a computer it hatches into a black blob which then i don't know what the name of the little the baby it's a bottom one okay at least you know vote them on to and then it changes into like a pink head with ear with antenna called a coromon which is what all the characters in the in at least the japanese version keep referring to the creature as he could even when it changes forms later but yeah gabouman doesn't get no love yeah argument plenty grandma sure the

4:38 goblin he's not even in this one [Laughter] that's what we call a fuck-up kid [Laughter] stay in school if you want don't stay in school [Laughter] but yeah as the creature gets a bit bigger and bigger it it eventually breaks out at night and uh we get an adventure with it just kind of wandering around are you just riding a dinosaur a short tight t-rex looking thing called an agumon yeah agumon and so

5:26 it blew up a bus no way in a car you let the bus go and then another big egg just starts coming from the sky and then hatches into a parrot monster parrotman yeah ferretman then uh agumon turns into a grandma and fights it and uh stabs it in its beak which is cut out of the u.s version of the film yeah he uses horns for something for once yeah and then they kind of just get sucked back up into the sky yeah pretty much well also uh kari would blow her whistle and uh well she was like having some type of attackers like

6:12 i wouldn't be surprised this is the uh pneumonia incident that's referenced in the show oh that would probably make more sense than yeah so ty just grabs the whistle and just blows to wake up the grey mountain so that it doesn't get killed by the parrot mod during the fight yep and like you know fire happens and then they get like you said they get sucked back up to the digital world yeah this is an incredibly simple plot but considering that this movie is only 20 minutes it's fine yeah honestly it's a good little 20 minute little short oh yeah a good way to introduce care introduce audiences we do get sorry to

6:58 interrupt we do get introduced to some of the others but they don't get their names said but you recognize them from the show and you know what's right yeah this is like before they even met at summer camp right and this this is basically just a brief introduction for audiences as to the general concept of digimon without going into all the minutia that's present in the tv series also fun fact uh tai from the tv series is actually based on a character with the same name from the comic book series that had been uh being printed at the same time okay they are drastically different characters in terms of personality but i visually they look identical okay so like every other male character in

7:45 the other series that end up stealing his hairstyle and his goggles except this time it's intentional [Laughter] yeah no go read uh digimon v tamer01 it's pretty good monger anger longer it's a fishmonger it's better than a warmonger yeah but like i said incredibly simplistic movie but it's fine for what it is and it's thoroughly enjoyable and has some good kaiju action in it which is honestly the most casual action we'll get out of pretty much any of the digimon movies yes there are this is

8:30 this is like the only one that technically my opinion out of the three that we're going to be talking about today that has the giant creature actually action the rest are more than kind of but they're not really well there's no city destruction so okay but i i said this before but i definitely prefer the japanese version of the film because it uses a musical piece called bolero which is incredibly well done throughout the film it's it's a piece of music that as it goes on and more instruments get added in to make a more it starts off

9:15 simplistic and ends up incredibly grand and a bit busy but it makes sense within the context of this movie and apparently it was actually uh originally going to be in the legend of zelda as its opening theme oh but it hadn't yet lapsed into the public domain in japan yet so they had to come up with uh the classic legend of zelda tune in like a week or something i'm just looking at your gundams right now and seeing if anything's missing i don't know why anyone anyone would be missing i mean certainly not like i started a new channel where i'm showing off my gundam models i don't know what you're i don't know what you're thinking

10:02 but with that it's time we move on to the second of the digimon movies digimon adventure our war game or children's war game as the text on screen in the actual uh film has it this one it's it's good in its own right i think it's probably in terms of actual narrative the best of the three movies in this compilation it is this one is set after the first season so kind of bridge the gap and i feel i should mention that in the jet in the us version of this film uh basically they had been inserting

10:48 this one character from the third movie into some capacity in the other two films to try and tie them all together narratively speaking and that uh there's more than the ones in japan that are busy distant i mean i guess i can't i get that but they make it they make it seem like it's all tied together within japan no not really but uh this movie is actually uh again by mamuru josode who soda sorry and apparently he liked the i this the this movie so much that he actually remade it into a but took out all the digimon references and just released it as summer wars which i've got to get around to watching

11:33 that was pretty popular in uh came out in 2009 no i'm not saying that that is a direct copy of this movie i haven't seen that but uh even the wikipedia says that it was a major influence but like i said it takes place after the second season so by this point all the digidestined characters are well established characters and it's their digimon are safely back in the digital world after having saved it and the real world but now uh a computer virus did you run or yeah got a computer virus yeah it's

12:19 yeah digi egg hatches or did you get infected by a computer virus yes and it starts just wreaking havoc on the internet yes meanwhile tai from the previous movie and izzy from the show are working together to try and stop it while at the same time trying to get in touch with any of the other six kids six kids that make up their eight kid group to try and help stop this monster oh and they have such a hard time they get no they don't even get all of them do they no let's see there's matt

13:06 matt and tk who are at their grandparents place that they are in in the sticks yes they're like yeah like there is no internet connection no computer anywhere there's the funniest scene when ty is trying to get a hold of matt and tk and their grandma hangs up on him he's like boys this boy you're selling ties with this [Laughter] and you know he's trying to also get a hold of um let's see his sister who's at a birthday party and can't tear herself away despite you know so you could leave a birthday party whenever you want uh there's joe who's uh trying exams

13:53 i think he's doing uh like pre-high school tests and stuff uh mimi who's on vacation in america hawaii apparently and sora who doesn't want to talk to thai because of a thing oh my god something about a hair clip i think it's the same in both versions it's yeah okay to the ones i've been in relationships tai was doing everything wrong that just made the girl more upset with them so just just walk away but yes they're having apologize people they're having a hard time getting the band back

14:40 together to stop this threat literally and the digimon which keeps evolving into different forms really quickly isn't helping the situation when it starts messing with the phone lines which means that when they do finally get in touch with uh matt and tk it's like they each have to leave a message for the other to come to listen to and respond to yeah meanwhile like kids all over the world are watching this yes situation email email email email like izzy and and ty's digimon's agamon and tendamon go in and try and stop the monster and it kicks their asses it uh ends up uh digivolving to the

15:28 champion form first you know like how the stages go actually i think it transforms into an ultimate form at that point it skips champion go straight to ultimate uh for those of you who aren't aware here's the uh basic uh level up system for digimon uh there's the baby stage called in training or baby second stage is also called in training like training level two uh the third stage is rookie and that's what most digimon are at like that you've seen on this show like if you've seen the digimon and it's more cute form that's probably a rookie form then there's a champion forum where they look tougher

16:16 then there's ultimate which is stronger than champion and then above that is mega then there's fuse and we just don't talk about that right now good thing you said right now because we gotta talk about that but now uh informant kicks their ass yes yep and then goes away yep he just like finds exit and just crawls right into it there yeah they're okay they're on the internet i disagree there's not enough porn but it is a series of tubes that's true [Laughter] but eventually they get matin tk to a computer to help out

17:03 so they joined the fight and at some point izzy okay so in the us version uh apparently ty's mom has been trying out a variety of new milkshake recipes or something like that and izzy is incredibly willing to try that whereas in the japanese version he's just really into oolong tea yep either way either way he winds up having to rush to the bathroom desperately and then ty accidentally bops the computer screen and it freezes yes [Laughter] we have to reboot it so when they finally get back online oh it's like it's another mess like literally um wargreymon oh by the way

17:49 they digivolved to their megaforms so they could take on this megapod we don't say the p it is for both in here pokemon pokemon pokemon for me okay burn me at the stage okay their games are better though they are can't deny that okay but that's just like your opinion man yeah okay so they they did evolve to their mega forms to take on this mega digimon what yeah inframon had now evolved into its ultimate form

18:36 diaboromon which [ __ ] kicks ass yeah i like that look it's so lanky and spiky but oh yeah it still looks menacing as like they finally reboot get their computer rebooted like literally uh metal guru roman and wargreymon look unfunctional and it doesn't help that dioboramon has hacked into the pentagon and launched a missile so they're so they got a rush to stop the abortion and the missile and there's my ac that's okay it's gonna get hot today

19:26 but uh situation is not looking good nope and then d and then ty and matt somehow fused with their computers and entered the internet themselves okay i have to say like they fi matt and tk finally find a computer at a barber shop and this is just a bunch of older people like you know getting haircuts and stuff like that all these kids know a lot of things about these computer things i can't even change the time on my vcr and by the way you can't i can't you can't it's freaking impossible is it probably wrong people no one has no one in the history of ever has ever programmed their vcrs prove me wrong i will especially now that vcrs don't

20:13 even exist anymore pretty wrong on that oh he got you he got you bad people he got you back yeah all right now back to the movie but then uh matt and ty somehow go into the computer and this uh revitalizes their digimon and allows them to fuse into a single digimon omnimon omnimon or omegamon if you're living in japan actually that name actually sounds cooler like it looks like a big white knight with like with an arm that's based on war greymon and an other arm that's based on metal guru room on one contains a cannon one contains a sword and it's got a big flowing cape that's

20:58 red on one side and silver on the other so he's captain america but he doesn't have a mighty shield except on his shoulder damn it now by this point diaboromon has decided to uh just clone itself repeatedly yep like ad nauseum so there's like millions of so as he just takes out all of pretty much his bunch of his shadow cones they then get uh reduced down to one but it's moving too quickly for them to catch up and it's not helping the for the matter that kids from all over the world are basically sending the digidestined emails of either encouragement or

21:45 whatever and then okay before they even fuse together there's a kid that's just a jerk jeez more gray man's a weak then ty just punch try almost punches izzy but he's just reading what the kids are saying now well turns out all these emails that have been coming in have been slowing up omnimon down uh yes odd mind yes but then izzy has a bright idea to just transfer all the emails to the bad did you mine which slows them down enough for them to take like literally he stops he like freezes and then sword to the head which stops the countdown at the last paw patrol possible minute and the the

22:32 missile just lands harmlessly in the bay yeah and i like the stars just sitting in a room and it just literally just lands in the pond or lake uh bay bay tokyo bay oh tokyo bay well i guess well yeah i guess they're in tokyo i guess they never thought about tokyo yeah just no explosion nothing just boom then she finally reads tai's message and ty apologizes i guess the best way he can well the thing is the movie opens with him trying to write an apology letter and kari just sending it before he's ready like he he was like trying he was finished typing it and he didn't he didn't know what to put but he interrupt she kari shows up right

23:19 when the word love was on the like [Laughter] so yeah yeah that's the second movie and it was great i liked it like i can definitely see why people love diaboromon's design i mean he's got a great design it was one of the single most dangerous digimon to ever not be in the show he was kind of he was messing stuff up in in the like well the internet that was i was basically dot hacking this [ __ ] up it was having effects on the real world oh yeah

24:04 like it was messing up the like grocery store counters that'll be one million two hundred dollars what that's what it says messing with everybody's tech emails blocking phones going to america county nuke okay it wasn't a nuke just a missile it could have caused damage where it landed but still like the wikipedia article where this does specify which miss which type of missile it is um and i'm not going to look into it too much

24:51 and that is the end of that one yep and yes i'm working on it that brings us to the third of the digimon movies which doesn't even have its own article on wikipedia oh no it was that bad and this movie is the longest of the two of the three yes because the first two let's see [ __ ] lucas is lost

25:38 i'll figure stuff out okay so pretty much it starts off with audio from kari and you know pretty much okay so the the second movie was 40 minutes so that's why it has more substantial plot meanwhile the third movie is 65 minutes long and it feels longer the third movie is digimon adventures zero two digimon hurricane touchdown and digimon adventure zero two transcendent evolution the golden digimental which for the record is what they called the digi eggs that oh that really that had the armored forms

26:25 from the second season okay okay just like oh what's a digi mental i freaking figured you either you or the audience would be confused so i figured i'd explain yeah and this movie is drawn out yeah it is um like i said it starts off with kari doing like a voiceover portion talking about davis and freaking basically introducing all the new characters from the second season and all the changes that have happened between seasons okay there there is a line that makes me uh kind of chuckle in the beginning where kari is talking about she bring brings up matt and

27:11 he's uh he's the artist formerly known or artist formerly like digidestined did you test informally known as matt a reference to prince when he decided to change his name to a symbol yeah yeah um and he decided that was done and changed it back ty is still addicted to soccer um yeah okay uh yeah this is this is the character that got kind of shoehorned into the other movies came from or at least in the us version he's at no point mentioned in the other two

27:56 films no uh the during the first movie they established that this new kid willis or wallace depending on which version you're watching apparently wonka apparently he got a digi egg at some point which gave him two digimon partners yeah so i guess you can hash twins in the digital digimon but then at some point during but then at some point prior to the second movie he tried to make a digimon which got infected with a computer virus and basically this kid in the u.s version of the movie is a source of almost all the problems in the in all three i mean technically it didn't have anything to do with what was going on in

28:41 this first one but according to the us he definitely caused the second one yeah i feel i should remind you that in the japanese version diaboromon was just a computer virus digimon that went rogue what make sense like it just went rogue on its own i was able to get to every stage though all right so now now we're caught up to this movie and it's new characters davis yoli and cody we don't mention the other new kid in this because he doesn't show up in this movie because presumably this movie takes place while he was a bad guy i think i think of his name ken

29:27 yeah he he has the the warm mind that turns into kamen rider yeah pretty much it's a calvin writer like all like it's literally a animated version of kamen rider coming under black rather specifically or at least that's what it closely looks like which is appropriate since both shows are made by toei so but we're only mentioning it to mention that he's that neither him nor his partner are in this movie yeah at all it would probably make it a little bit better if ken was where whereas the first two movies were pretty clear on where they took place in continuity yeah in fact uh the second

30:13 movie is actually a huge part of continuity and actually ties into that bad guy who's who's not in this movie sir not appearing in this film or at least according to the games that introduce his backstory which is a whole thing that i should probably do a toku facts video on because that that is a whole mess that wasn't even uh so you're saying it's a big kettle of fish it's a huge kettle of fish and worms and you can't shoot either of them in a barrel nope but it's a whole kerfuffle that was even more confusing for the us who didn't have access to them

30:59 but that's a whole other thing so okay now let me just say this i'm not a fan of this movie but it's slow very slow yeah so pretty much i'm guessing that digimon evolved into that form because basically okay so the move this movie in the u.s version starts off with the tk and kari in america investigating something for some reason and then then they have an encounter with an one

31:45 day an indigo mon who that's what it's called indigo man andy gomon wendigoman depending on where you're living okay i think it's indigo money in the u.s version because apparently dummies don't exist i know of when to go but what's an indigo that is a color no that's indigo idiot said it but they also have some encounter with willis and his terriermon partner who terramon has a more prominent role in the third season yes and i freaking love that season the third oh i have to agree third the third season i think okay how

32:32 i would rate them it would be the first season the third season then like the second season just that's just my opinion i haven't seen all the digimons yet so but then after tk and khari encounter the endigoman they get in touch with the other three back in japan then somehow managed to make their way to the us and meet willis by a train yogi has connections in the us version he does oh my god she does it's just like i got an uncle this i got an uncle that i got admittedly that's probably the us version trying to pave over a huge bottle that's present in the japanese

33:18 version because how the [ __ ] does it do three kids from japan just casually make it to america they order a pizza that's after they're already in america that's right yes but then they encounter willis who bait who tries to explain the situation and how the endigoman used to be a cocomon but then it got infected with a virus in the us version and then it went crazy and it keeps telling him to go back it keeps telling him to go back and they keep fighting it the the thing is he doesn't

34:04 understand aging i'll get to that it's it's tell the endigomon is telling willis to go back for some reason at some point davis and willis get separated from the others and so jolie and cody go on ahead while davis and willis kind of have to just hang around have to try and hopefully they're on foot babe i think in america yeah at least they're in america the the country that's way bigger than japan

34:53 [Laughter] no i realized what i was saying i'm just like i'm [ __ ] up uh but it's really really long and drawn out and incredibly boring and i'm surprised i didn't fall asleep during this one like i did the last podcast podcast subject yeah um see well you did like look up was that twitter and stuff for a good while and sure i wasn't really paying too much attention that's because i already knew this was a boring ass film and the pacing is incredibly slow

35:38 willis is just not that engaging of a character no granted neither are really the season two characters in general outside of the context of the show yeah um there is a funny thing though where uh like davis and willis are talk like talking and brings up davis has a huge crush on kari that is a recurring element from the show yes but and willis is poking fun at him over it yeah okay you better leave curry alone she's mine i don't know i don't know

36:24 you like to give her a big smooch hey what like literally like somewhat jealous boyfriend situation but he's not even he just likes her he doesn't want anyone else a one-sided relationship exactly and then they walk they walk and then they encounter and go on and somehow get caught back up with uh the others and then uh tk and curry show up with their digimon which evolve into their mega forms somehow i don't know i i i really no no seriously there is no there is no

37:09 explanation for how they're able to do this um i would prefer um if they would have been able to uh build that up yeah but no uh just like tk's potamon evolves into evolves into a sarafaman well well kari's got him on evolves into a magnadormon and there's no explanation as to why it's not even something they could do in the show it would have helped them out in the show like at most they could get them up to their ultimate levels and imagine iran isn't even ah but they do that thing and then they fight the ending obon which is now evolved into uh

37:58 some uh uh something else i'm trying i'm trying to remember what it was called it looked like a giant for kermit the frog uh cherubimon ruby that that is its ultimate form or mega form i'm trying to remember what it's in tiruma and diremond it was like a rabbit with your yeah that it has more relevance during the third season which because i believe one of the yeah but also because yeah but also because it's like part of like a whole group that are based on the on the chinese zodia zodiac so it makes sense in this one it just shows up and causes

38:44 mayhem and then the cherubiman is all evil and purple yep but like a dark purple not the good light purple or pink it should be because it's evil because of a computer virus and uh then i guess um tk and kari give willis and davis uh two golden digi eggs from out that they pulled out of their asses so that the two could evolve their digimons into magnamon and rapidman and they do that and then they get eaten and then they then shoot the virus out of him at some point the kids get turned or the kids get turned into even younger kids yeah then see that doesn't make sense either it doesn't make sense

39:30 in the u.s version no in the japanese version it makes a bit more sense because it's tied to the plot that's cut out of the us version in which indigo mon had been kidnapping the other digidestined and regressing them in age to try and find his lost partner so the entire crux of this movie is that the villainous digimon got lost got separated from willis when it was still a kid and has spent the intervening years trying to reconnect with willis searching all over the country for him and when he does eventually find willis he doesn't recognize well it's because he is aged because he's grown up he's changed and so the whole idea is that wendy goes

40:16 wanting to go back to the well as he knows but that he can't do that without age regression and even then they still retain their memories yeah it's a whole kettle of fish that makes more sense in the japanese version because they have that subplot of of the bad digimon kidnapping they chill kidnapping the other digidestined and having been infected with a computer virus or something during its time being separated from its partner it's an it's an incredibly tragic tale yeah that guy kind of gets lost in the mess that is this really long and drawn out movie but anyway they managed to defeat that

41:01 defeat to ruben and uh i guess they find cor kokomon's digi egg at some point yeah and it is long and drawn out and did not need to be 65 minutes no the second one could have we would have been more entertained so that was all three parts of digimon the movie yeah um i like the first one like the second one third one let's just just cut that one off no we need that to make a feature film so that we can actually show it in

41:47 theaters they should have waited and just gotten a diaboromon strikes back the fourth movie that was entertaining enough that's it oh yeah we did did we watch that one yet no we haven't yet interesting so that might be one we could cover in the future but for now we have covered all three of the movies that comprise digimon the movie now i get to talk about the angela anaconda [ __ ] i'm giving him the floor so for those of you who aren't aware angela anaconda was a a cartoon series that was basically made in the style similar to south park except with more photo realistic character designs

42:33 which just look a bit off-putting to some people and it basically fall is a series that follows this school girl angel anaconda and the various misadventures she has with her friends for some reason fox decided to make a whole short dedicated to promoting this movie and i think it was even in the theatrical run of the film it's certainly on the vhs version of the film i don't remember the specifics of the short other than that it exists for some reason and angela anaconda dresses up as tai for some reason there you go

43:19 i don't even know i have no words there are no words there are no words to properly convey how dumb this pit is completely superfluous um [Music] if i can like we said before there is one saving grace about the us version of the film and that's its goddamn fantastic soundtrack which consists a lot of alternative rock pup pop punk hip hop and ska punk uh bits you got a a rap version of the of the show's main

44:06 theme you've got uh you've got the rockefeller skank from fat boy slim kids in america from llenn uh one week by barenaked ladies that impression that i get from mighty mighty boss stones all my best friends are metal heads from less than jake run around from jason radford i'm at this point basically just listing off all the tracks but probably the most surprising is the shrek favorite all-star by smash mouth yeah that was on there but this is a fantastic lineup of a soundtrack and it helped introduce me as a kid to these great songs that i would

44:52 not have heard otherwise protoman is kind of an introvert very much so he is like he's got to hear something from like a show or a movie to get into certain other things and then i hear it everywhere because everybody's already been aware of it for years he's like hey have you heard this man that's not a date [Laughter] sorry i'm stuck in my ways oh um [ __ ] um yeah in general i would say watch the first

45:38 two japanese movies uh listen to the soundtrack for the us version and just forget that the third movie ever exists what he said so this has been son of kai drew review i am tank i'm proud of it see ya bye you