Digimon: The Movie (2000)

Three different stories involving digital creatures collide together.

Directors:

Mamoru Hosoda, Shigeyasu Yamauchi

Writers:

Akiyoshi Hongo (original concept by), Jeff Nimoy (adaptation)

Stars:

Lara Jill Miller, Joshua Seth, Bob Papenbrook

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Lara Jill Miller	...	Kari / Young Kari (voice)
Joshua Seth	...	Young Tai / Tai (voice)
Bob Papenbrook	...	Red Greymon (voice)
David Lodge	...	Parrotmon (voice)
Dorothy Elias-Fahn	...	Tal's Mom (voice)
Michael Sorich	...	Miko / Big Agumon / Gargomon (voice)
Peggy O'Neal	...	Botamon (voice)
Colleen O'Shaughnessey	...	Sora / Male Student (voice)
Brianne Brozey	...	Koromon / Kuramon (voice)
Jeff Nimoy	...	Truck Driver 1 / Tentomon / Phone Voice 1 / Kabuterimon / MegaKabuterimon / Floyd the Barber / Barney / Cabbie / Kid 3 (voice)
Bob Buchholz	...	Truck Driver 2 / Male Customer / Phone Voice 2 / Voice Mail Operator / Uncle Al / Andy / Squad Leader (voice)
Philece Sampler	...	Mimi / Cody / Matt's Grandma (voice)
Mona Marshall	...	Izzy / Terriermon (voice)
Michael Lindsay	...	Joe / Greymon (voice)
Michael Reisz	...	Matt (voice)

Storyline

The film is an edited version of three different Japanese short films, which have been combined together. There is narration by a continuing character, Kari. The first segment of the film revolves around the first encounter with a digimon and a fight that occurs between their digimon and another. The two kids, Kari and Tai, raise a fast-growing digimon from an egg to a large, dinosaur-like digimon, which escapes from their house and then has an encounter and a battle with a parrot-like digimon. The second segment mainly involves Tai and another digiDestined friend of his, Izzy. A computer virus sweeps across the internet, effecting a digiEgg, and thus creating an infected digimon. This infected digimon begins to start eating computer information and data, and the two protagonists attempt to stop the digimon, but fail. After the infected digimon manages to get into the American information system and launch two nukes, one at japan and one at Colorado, Tai and Izzy get help from ...

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Plot Keywords:

digimon | computer | internet | compilation | teenage boy | 

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Taglines:

New Monsters. New Battles. Now on the Big Screen.

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Genres:

Animation | Action | Adventure | Family | Sci-Fi

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for action violence

Details

Country:

USA Japan

Language:

English

Release Date:

6 October 2000 (USA)

Also Known As:

Digimon: The Movie

Box Office

Budget:

$5,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$4,233,304, 8 October 2000, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$9,628,751, 5 January 2001

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$16,643,191, 31 December 2001

Company Credits

Production Co:

Saban Entertainment, Toei Company, Fox Family Films

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

When the Digi-Egg emerges from the computer in the first part, the text in the background is from Psalm 109.

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Goofs

When the train passes by, the front of the locomotive reads "Amtrak", yet the top reads "Amtrack".

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Quotes

Patamon: [Patamon and Gabumon are going through the Internet with Agumon and Tentomon]
Patamon: Is TK on this ride?
Gabumon: He's not tall enough.

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Crazy Credits

In the Japanese version of segment 3: During the credits a scene appears with a reddish tint and it slowly fades to a picture of Wallace with his two digimon flying around him.

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Alternate Versions

The ABC Family broadcast premiere removed the 4-minute intro with Angela Anaconda before the 20th Century Fox logo sequence, and replaced the Fox Kids logo between the 20th logo sequence and the opening credit sequence with the Saban International logo. 20th Century Fox is owned by the News Corporation in which it and Haim Saban, in 2001, sold what Fox Family became ABC Family, including what Saban Entertainment became BVS Entertainment and what the Fox Kids International channels became Jetix in 2005, to the Walt Disney Company.

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Connections

References L'amour fou (1969)

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Soundtracks

Here We Go
Performed by Jason Gochin
Produced by Jeremy Sweet
Written by Jeremy Sweet Shuki Levy and Haim Saban (as Kussa Mahchi)
Used by permission of Eifoata Music

User Reviews

It could have been much better, but still very much enjoyable as movie.

I've been a fan of Digimon Adventure and Zero Two for about four years now, and when I heard they were coming out with a movie in America for it I got excited.

So when I finally saw it, it was somewhat of a letdown. Sure, the movie has its funny parts, but it was too changed from the original Japanese versions that it just can't really compare. For one, the three "parts" don't really have anything to do with each other. They're three separate movies in Japan (and there was a fourth one later that never made it's way to the US), and they should have stayed that way. Plus, chunks were left out of the movie to cut down on time, parts that were rather important to understanding the plot as a whole. Some of the jokes were funny, but some were quite stupid, and of course a lot of them portrayed Daisuke (Davis) as being more stupid than he was shown in the Japanese version.

However, I understand that many people cannot understand raw Japanese, and as of yet there is no official subtitled version legally released, so if you enjoy Digimon and are looking for a good laugh, I would still recommend this movie. Though I admit I enjoyed the four Japanese movies better than this one, it's still a movie I found good enough to go out and buy and watch from time to time. It's cute, it's fun, and how can you not enjoy a movie about a bunch of kids and their pet digital monsters trying to save not just one, but the best of two worlds?