The Digimon Movie Wasn't That Bad

0:02 the Digimon movie seems to be a fairly divisive Topic in the Digimon fandom while some adore it as a nostalgic timepiece others believe it to be an awful butchering of the source material but honestly in my opinion the Digimon movie was not as bad as people say it was and overall was definitely a product of its time and the demographic at the time as adults for example might appreciate Bolero not so much would a 10 year old English-speaking child I mean it's very fancy to have Bolero in the original version of the first part of the digital movie however not I can't imagine appreciating Bolero

0:48 as much when I was the Target demographic for the franchise so the Digimon movie instead of having classical music throughout and then uh of course in the third part which is its own movie obviously hurricane touchdown having random jazz music this is of course replaced by a fairly incredible at least in my opinion soundtrack Full of things like scar Punk and then just like pop from the era so we have things like all star we have uh Less Than Jake the Mighty Boss Stones a lot of music that and of course Fatboy Slim who could forget and this is sort throughout the entire movie making the soundtrack pretty unique of course there are worlds

1:35 so there's uh original Digimon songs like here we go and the digi rap and those were created either for the Digimon movie or had been previously used in the Digimon anime however we also had additional music that's just kind of just general Bops from from the time again it's a timepiece it has basically all the catchy songs from that era find me a decent movie from this time period that doesn't have All-Star in it because I swear it was in every second movie I watched around the time of this movie's release so the soundtrack itself is fairly out there I'm fairly certain even people who don't like the digital movie can say that the soundtrack isn't all

2:22 that bad and at least had some originality to it do love that soundtrack always love that soundtrack it lives in my CD disk drive in my car because cars still have those mine has like an eight stack of but I only have the digital movie soundtrack in it one day I'll film my dream of uh the entire stack just being the digital movie and nothing else like that that's that's my goal right there but in terms of the movie itself it has so many funny and memorable lines in the English version I can remember countless lines from the dub but not so many from the original Japanese release it's got just so many amazing one-liners throughout from like the bus driver who

3:09 or the truck driver I believe it was who didn't uh who was paying attention to the dinosaur and one was sleeping but it turns out the one that was sleeping was the driver I guess maybe you had to be there but again very memorable and I can't remember any memorable or funny lines from the Japanese version of the digital movie or any of the three movies I also tend to flip-flop on whether or not combining these three movies to make one was a good idea but honestly it mostly works at least in my opinion in general tying together the third movie with the second movie actually works better than the original in the original we had very little reason for lotmon becoming evil other than just he got lost he got a virus

3:56 being kind of like very vague and hand wavy however having the reason to be more involved with the virus that caused diaboromon makes it make a little more sense and of course ties together the three movies fairly well at least I feel like it does anyway compared with the Pokemon movie which also came out around the same time I can remember a lot about the digital movie and I find it also a lot more like I'm more likely to re-watch the digital movie than the Pokemon movie the Pokemon movie I can remember a few things like uh of course Pikachu crying the Psyduck hitting themselves and then going sigh but other than that I don't really remember much from the Pokemon movie and I haven't really re-watched it much since and I don't really want to

4:43 re-watch it much since however the new drama movie I feel like I'm re-watching every few months I just really enjoy watching the digital movie I don't know why maybe it's the soundtrack maybe it's the funny lines maybe it's the sense of comfort that this Nostalgia brings but overall I will always re-watch some digital movie maybe one day I'll rewatch the Pokemon movie but not really drawn to it as much as I love Pokemon I'm not really drawn to the idea of re-watching it but if like every so often I just have an urge to watch the digital movie and then I do and I enjoy it every single time and of course at the start of the digital movie we have the Angela Anaconda Crossover at the start now many people seem to dislike this Crossover at

5:30 the start and that was always perplexing to me when I uh ventured online and spoke to other digital mon fans because back when the movie came out Angela Anaconda was actually huge at my primary school so finding out later that some people didn't like the crossover or didn't like Angela Anaconda or didn't watch Andrew anaconda or even know what it is that was always surprising to me because it was fairly popular I was I mean I think I would even say immensely popular when I was growing up I really liked the show the characters were enjoyable it was fairly relatable I really enjoyed it so when I watched digital movie for the first time I was so excited that they

6:16 were doing a crossover with a cartoon that I also really liked the previously I thought had no connection Digimon and honestly it doesn't it's just kind of wild that it's there again the digital movie is an amazing timepiece for the time because of the soundtrack because of the random Angel Anaconda skit at the start I just find it really just charming and again I'm very surprised that seeing people online being confused about this part with bandra anaconda or just not enjoying it or even hating it like some people I've seen are not just aggressively anti-digital movie they're anti-andra Angela Anaconda as well

7:02 because it was the start of the digital movie that always surprised me and I'm still to this day not sure why people seem to just hate Angel Anaconda when as I said growing up people loved her at least at the primary school I went to people loved her and I remember my friends and I being really excited to see Angela uh also being a fan of Digimon she's just like us was kind of like the thing of that show she felt really relatable as a kid so seeing her being a fan of the dinner woman franchise was also very appealing to the kids who thought that the characters there were relatable and that's something I really appreciated about it so overall yes the Digimon movie is

7:48 really and truly a product of its time and the demographic for the franchise at the time of course now we're all grown up we're no longer the Target demographic the Digimon movies Target demographic was kids in the early 2000s and it was specifically English-speaking kids or American Kids of the early 2000s so a lot of the humor a lot of the uh the music especially and even the ads ranaconda part at the start was because it was aimed at a specific Target demographic that being what do kids in the early 2000s like typically from America I'm from Australia but I also found myself in that Target demographic

8:33 as well so it's not just exclusively American kids but English-speaking kids as well so when I see people complaining about it I'm like are you thinking about it as as you are now as an adult or are you thinking about it in the mind of a kid in the early 2000s and if you stop trying to think of this movie as a current movie and start thinking of it as it is which is it's a movie from the early 2000s aimed at American eight-year-olds and you try to think like that then you might be able to enjoy it just a little bit more I just I love the jokes I love the references and of course the music and it all reflects the early 2000s and

9:19 honestly overall the movie could be treated as a timepiece like a period piece of the early 2000s because just of how much stuff it has from that era so before you judge the digital movie trying to think of it as a timepiece as a piece of History if you will not just as a random cartoon and again I think that the movies are edited together quite well the there are a few errors like how on the on the VHS I believe it has a blurb and it actually says in this blurb uh that the chill the original chosen children have been kidnapped by Digimon which is actually edited out of the

10:04 English version this was in the original Japanese version yes but in the the English version it actually was edited away so that that's kind of funny of course you do have a this one random scene which doesn't really flow together that particularly well in that third part which is TK and Kari are taking a photo because they're in America and they're actually there to like they're actually there with Mimi at the moment they do mention they're there to visit Mimi but we don't actually see her and then when they're taking this photo the laptop randomly Falls and then the characters like saying oh we we lost connection what actually happens is that Mimi is holding the laptop and she disappears and obviously their reaction is just not

10:50 oh we lost connection it's oh my gosh our friend literally just vanished Into Thin Air so that's one of the only parts that doesn't flow together particularly well in the English version but other than that you can barely you can basically skip that whole plot line it was removed fairly well from the English version and again the whole fact that they're tying it in with all together with dioramon means that it makes a little bit more sense for why when to go mon became evil so overall those are my thoughts about the digital movie and why it should be treated as a timepiece rather than just being a terrible butchering of three movies what were your thoughts about the digital movie have I convinced anybody to give the

11:36 digital movie in english a second shot let me know Below in the comments section like this video if you have some shred of love for the digital movie subscribe if you haven't already and of course I'll see you in the next one bye [Music] foreign