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QUICK PLOT SUMMARY:
Animation - A powerful Digimon named Diabormon grows into a giant monster with a plot to destroy the world and only the Digimon hero Omnimon can stop him.
WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: PG
- The MPAA rated this film PG for action violence.
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FAST FACTS:
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| Release Date | .... October 6, 2000 |
| Running Time | .... Aprox. 108 Minutes |
| Genre | .... Animation |
| Adaptation By: | .... Jeff Nimoy |
| Writer | .... Bob Buchholz |
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WHO SHOULD SEE THIS MOVIE:
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- AS A DATE MOVIE
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- Poor Bet -Not exactly a film for daters and even smooching in the backrow would be considered faux pas with all those little kids around!
- CHICK FLICK
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- Poor Bet -The gals probably won't find Digimon: The Movie anything but an annoying marketing ploy.
- GUYS MOVIE
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- Poor Bet -Not a film for the guys unless they are between six and ten years of age.
- CHILDREN
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- Good Bet -Will kids want to see Digimon: The Movie? Absolutely! Should kids see Digimon: The Movie? That depends on Mom and Dad's feelings about solving violence with violence, and contributing to the commercialism of an international franchise that is seeking to influence what kids want for Christmas... ooh heavy, huh?
- TEENAGERS
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- Maybe -Teens are too old to appreciate this movie and are likely to make fun of other kids that enjoy Digimon: The Movie, claiming it is a show on television for little kids. However the characters in the story seem to be teenagers, so young teens who really get into the Internet will probably enjoy this one.
- GENERATION X
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- Poor Bet - Gen Xers know the difference between good anime and lousy imitations. Unless the Gen Xer has a young one they want to see it with, Digimon: The Movie is a painful 90 minutes to endure.
- BABY BOOMERS
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- Poor Bet -Boomers recognize what this film means in terms of dollars and cents at the toy store this coming Christmas. For the Boomers who are stuck catching this film with a little one, don't miss the animated short Angela Anaconda that kicks off the film. It is much more creative and gets the biggest laughs from the kids. Boomers who enjoy watching the teleevision show with their kids might enjoy the movie, but otherwise...go see something else!
- MATURE AUDIENCES
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- Poor Bet -Grandma might find this type of a cartoon to be unacceptable as a family film. The older set would not enjoy this movie without the aid of a young person, that's for sure!
- INTELLECTUALS
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- Poor Bet -Intellectuals who love good anime films won't be missing much by avoiding Digimon: The Movie.
WHAT PARENTS SHOULD CONSIDER BEFORE THEIR CHILDREN SEE THIS MOVIE:
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MOVIE DETAILS:
- VIOLENT ACTS
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- Some -A few of the really big Digimon are loud and scary like dinosaurs. The story is made up of one digi-battle after another; the digimon punch, push and shove, or shoot electricity or firballs. Though the digimon supposedly can not be killed, they have no trouble destroying major chunks of town, with buildings being blown up, structures crunched, cars, soft drink machines, phone booths, etc. The digimon do hit each other, which seems to determine who wins or loses, but no one ever shows injury or dies. A ton of "digimon copies" are "deleted" and the uber-evil digimon is hit by arrows and splits into a million pieces as if finally "destroyed" which is not graphic. One digimon has machine gun-like arms and shoots at another digimon who can heal automatically. A nuclear missile comes crashing to the ground, but never explodes.
- SEX/NUDITY
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- None -Parents can be thankful there's no sex-mon or nudity-mon. One boy makes it known that he is the only one allowed to kiss his "girlfriend".
- PROFANITY
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- Little -The children exchange some fairly harmless insults as the battles get tense, especially when emails cause the battling digimon to lose power.
- TENSE SCENES
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- Little -During the digi-battles, there is quite a bit of loud music, that is more energetic that ominous (think: Power Rangers). There is a point when there are only seconds left before a nuclear missile will hit that might make little ones nervous...but only for a moment.
- IMMORAL/ILLEGAL BEHAVIORS
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- Some -Attempting to destroy the world; random property damage/vandalism.
- QUESTIONABLE SCENES
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- Little -Nothing really questionable here, except the little digimons as babies poo on the carpet (complete with sound effects) and the crazy refreshments one child's mother is constantly offering his friends results in one child to vomit.
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OVERALL RATINGS:
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- Entertainment Rating
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Ok, all you digi-moms and dads... here is the breakdown:
Digimon: The Movie is based on the TV show Digimon: Digital Monsters, as you all probably are very familiar with if you have ever bought a Happy Meal or spent hours in line last Christmas staring at shelves and shelves of Digi-Everything. The basic idea is they come from an alternate world where everything is Digi-something. In the movie, the kids find a way inside the digital world and unite with the Digimon to fight evil, in this case a Digi-virus that has infected the Internet and sent a nuclear missile skyrocketing towards Colorado.
Digimon: The Movie is a little easier to follow than the Pokemon films. Digimons come from the digital world, so the story is set around the computer. The Internet is shown to be capable of being our big downfall eventually. Not exactly an unsupported theory, but certainly one that's kinda heavy to be considered light viewing material for the kiddies.
Let me just apologise in advance to all of you grown-ups who have had to sit through this drivel-mon. Do the producers of Digimon think the insults will just fly over our heads as we sit there smiling along with our children? At one point the bad Digimon is headed for a New York subway, which a main character states "will slow him down for sure!". The children in the story are all super-whizzes on the computer, all the while the adults are clueless. One mother is portrayed as a crazy-granola type, who juices just about anything she can get a hold of and actually makes one child sick with her concoctions like beef jerky shakes, potato juice and spinach cookies.
The little digi-critters of various shapes and sizes are cute at first, even when they leave huge droppings and make disgusting noises that make little people giggle. It is not until they begin to "digi-evolve" that we learn they are capable of making quite a racket. I stopped being entertained about the time this cute fluffy rabbit-type digimon evolved into this thing with machine guns on both hands. Especially since my eleven year old son seemed to get very excited by the armed fluffy-mon. The very idea that all of those impressionable minds are getting another dose of gun violence makes me downright steamed. Yes, the guns can't kill digimon, which supposedly makes Digimon okay for kids. If you ask me, it creates just enough of a dangerous illusion that can lead a child to believe a real gun won't kill a little brother or sister in a "play" situation.
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- Children's Value Rating
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Kids are the only ones who will get this movie!!! Young children might be scared by the loud sounds and flashes of the digi-battles. Some parents might not approve of this cartoon-style violence, even though no one really gets hurt or dies in the story. Except the digimon that use (or become, rather) actual weapons, this one is probably ok for most audiences. The children seemed to enjoy the film short opener of Angela Anaconda even more than Digimon. Ultimately, the film doesn't do anything new except shove the whole "save the world in the nick of time" premise down the audience's throat! Kids that love the series will think this film is THE BOMB, regardless of it's overused plot.
Reviewed by C.A. Batchelor
What do YOU think? -- October 6, 2000
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