Digimon: The Movie
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| Directed by | Mamoru Hosoda Minoru Hosoda Shigeyasu Yamauchi |
| Produced by | Seki Hiromi Yasushi Mitsui Terri-Lei O'Malley Makoto Shibazaki Tan Takaiwa Teruo Tamamura Tsutomu Tomari Makoto Toriyama Makoto Yamashina |
| Written by | Reiko Yoshida Jeff Nimoy Bob Buchholz |
| Starring | Lara Jill Miller Joshua Seth Bob Glouberman Brian Donovan |
| Music by | Udi Harpaz Amotz Plessner |
| Cinematography | Shigeru Ando |
| Editing by | Gary Friedman Douglas Purgason |
| Distributed by | Toei Company (Japan) Toei Animation (Japan) 20th Century Fox (United States) Fox Kids (United States) |
| Release date(s) |  October 6, 2000 |
| Running time | 82 Min. (USA) |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese English |
| Budget | $5,000,000 US (est.) |
| Followed by | Diaboromon Strikes Back |
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Digimon: The Movie, released in the U.S. and Canada by Fox Kids in October 2000, consists of the union of the first three Japanese Digimon movies (which were released separately in Japan). The first two parts are from Digimon Adventure and the 3rd part from Digimon Adventure 02. Those stories are based in the universe introduced in the first two seasons of the TV series. The movie in the U.S. is distributed by 20th Century Fox. The unified version released in North America had a high degree of editing, with more than 40 minutes of scenes from the individual Japanese versions cut out in order to save time, along with several plot changes (possibly to help make more sense of the movie in the absence of the deleted scenes).
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[edit] Plot
[edit] Digimon Adventure
The first story focused on Tai Kamiya and Kari Kamiya four years before their adventure in the Digital World. It shows their first encounter with Digimon and what happened to them (as well as the other children) when they participated in their first digimon battle after raising a quickly growing Botamon. In the story, that Digimon hatches from a Digi-egg and eventually evolved into Greymon to fight a Parrotmon who appeared in the city. The movie was used in episodes of Digimon Adventure to explain why Tai and the others became the DigiDestined in the first place.
Tai and Kari wake to find a Digi-Egg that came out of their computer the night before and the egg soon hatches, revealing a Botamon. The Digimon then evolves into Koromon and then Agumon (not the same one that became friends with Tai in the series- and yet, somehow, both Koromon and Kari remember each other), who then goes out and unintentionally destroys a good part of the neighborhood with Kari riding on his back. A second Digi-Egg appears in the sky to reveal an evil digimon, Parrotmon (they don't say his name in the movie). Agumon then Digivolves to Greymon but isn't strong enough to beat Parrotmon and is knocked out. Tai grabs Kari's whistle and wakes up Greymon, who defeats Parrotmon and disappears with him.
[edit] Our War Game
Izzy Izumi discovers a virus on the internet infecting a Digi-Egg. At the same time, Tai is trying to apologize to Sora Takenouchi for getting her a hairclip for her birthday in an e-mail. Izzy arrives at Tai's house out of breath, telling Tai about the newly-hatched Digimon. Tai and Izzy use Tai's dad's computer and monitor the Digimon until Gennai appears in a transmission from the Digital World. He sends Agumon and Tentomon to help stop the corrupted Digimon. They put up a good fight until Keramon Digivolves to Infermon and defeats them. Tai tries furiously to contact and alert the rest of the Digidestined and ends up getting only Matt Ishida and his brother T.K. Takaishi. They find a computer in a barber shop and upload Gabumon and Patamon onto the net. Infermon Digivolves to Diaboromon after Agumon and Gabumon Warp Digivolve to WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon but then they slow down because of the massive amount of e-mails being sent to Tai and Izzy. Tai slaps the computer and freezes it leaving WarGreymon frozen and defeated. Diaboromon then starts multiplying and sets up a timer for 10 minutes as he forces the Pentagon to launch two nuclear missiles: one headed for Colorado, the other for the neighbourhood in Odaiba, Tokyo, where Tai currently lives. WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon wake up and race to defeat Diaboromon, only to find over a million copies of him. Every single copy fires and blast them until they lie defeated. Tai and Matt mysteriously enter their computers and talk to their Digimon. WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon DNA Digivolve to Omnimon who easily defeats all but one Diaboromon. At one minute to go, Diaboromon is still too fast for them to hit, but then Izzy forwards him the e-mails, slowing him like it did to the other Digimon. At the very last second, Diaboromon is destroyed, disabling the missiles. But the virus tracks down Willis and infects Kokomon.
[edit] Hurricane Touchdown
This part features the characters in the second season. It starts out with T.K. and Kari (visiting Mimi in New York) taking a picture, but having trouble, and then Kari senses something. They end up briefly meeting Willis and Terriermon, who are engaged in a battle with Endigomon (not knowing Endigomon's actual name), who keeps telling Willis to "go back", and then vanishes. Willis and Terriermon travel to Colorado while Kari, on a train with T.K., e-mails Davis Motomiya to inform him of Willis and Endigomon.
After taking planes and taxis, Davis, Yolei Inoue, and Cody Hida end up meeting Willis in a truck while Kari and T.K. literally get derailed by Endigomon. Willis tries to get Davis, Yolei, and Cody a lift to his house (in the form of a pizza truck). The ride leaves without Willis and Davis, who encounter Endigomon which leads to a battle between Davis, Flamedramon, and Gargomon, Terriermon's Champion form. Before anyone is defeated, Endigomon vanishes again, repeating his cryptic message, "go back". Davis and Willis meet up with Yolei and Cody who told Davis that T.K. and Kari (to Davis's disappointment) aren't there yet. Willis doubts that they'll come at all if Endigomon interfered. After the kids question his knowledge about Endigomon, Willis reveals that he created him but regrets saying so and storms off, while being followed by Davis. Willis reveals the story about Endigomon, how he became infected, and reveals that he was the one who basically created Diaboromon. Davis tells Willis how they're part of a team, and that he doesn't have to face Endigomon alone. Terriermon overhears the conversation (blaming it on his "really big ears") and says that he's "not Willis's pet, but his friend", and wants to be beside him every step of the way. Willis refuses his help out of concern for his safety, but Terriermon talks him into letting him battle. At Willis's home, Endigomon reappears, as expected, but digivolves to Antylamon. He swiftly evades the attacks of Gargomon, Flamedramon, Halsemon and Digmon and throws all the Digimon around like rag dolls. Antylamon sinks into the lake (and changes the scenery), and rises again, but as Cherubimon.
However, they still try to fight, but don't prevail, as Cherubimon grabs them and is about to eat them when Angemon and Angewomon cut off his arms and T.K. and Kari show up. Cherubimon de-digivolves the Digimon then de-ages the Digidestined, revealing that he wanted Willis to "go back" in time to when the virus first attacked him. Angewomon and Angemon digivolve to their Mega forms, Magnadramon and Seraphimon, to release two Golden Digi-Eggs for Willis and Davis. Veemon and Terriermon Golden Armor Digivolve to Magnamon and Rapidmon who go into Cherubimon. Inside they see Endigomon who tells them to destroy the virus. Doing so purifies Kerpymon, who soon dies. After saying goodbye to his new friends, Willis and Terriermon walk back home, and notice the Digi-Egg that will hatch into Conomon, Kokomon's Fresh form.
[edit] Rating
In America, this film was rated PG by the MPAA for action violence.
[edit] Soundtrack
Track Listing
- 1. DigiRap - MC Pea Pod f/ Paul Gordon
- 2. All Star - Smash Mouth
- 3. The Rockafeller Skank - Fatboy Slim
- 4. Kids in America - Len
- 5. Hey Digimon - Paul Gordon
- 6. One Week - Barenaked Ladies
- 7. The Impression That I Get - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
- 8. All My Best Friends Are Metalheads - Less Than Jake
- 9. Run Around - Jasan Radford
- 10. Nowhere Near - Summercamp
- 11. Spill - Showoff
- 12. Here We Go - Jason Gochin
Bonus Tracks:
- 13. Digimon Theme - Paul Gordon
- 14. Change Into Power - Paul Gordon
- 15. Let's Kick It Up - Paul Gordon
- 16. Going Digital - Jasan Radford
- 17. Strange - Jasan Radford
[edit] Cast
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Earliest archive of now-defunct movie website dated March 9, 2001, courtesy of Internet Archive
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