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

Gross USA:

$9,631,153

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$16,643,191

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

The references to Willis were not in the original Japanese version, because "Our war game" was in continuity and "Hurricane Touchdown" was out of continuity, therefore in "Our War Game" Willis/Wallace did not exist.

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Goofs

The Lopmon and Terriermon featured on the cover and poster art were drawn incorrectly. Some errors include wrong colorings, swapped markings, an incorrect number of horns, and incorrect shading.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Kari: [narrating] Who says there's no such things as monsters?

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Crazy Credits

In the Japanese version of segment 2: An hour glass mouse pointer is seen. Then a Windows computer screen with a window open on the right side appears. As the credits go by on the left side of the screen, images flash by in the open window. They are: TK and the old couple, Matt getting a hair cut, Joe after his test, Mimi and her family surrounded by bags, Kari and the group of friends at the birthday party, TK and Matt's grandma, random tinted yellow flashes of everyone who sent e-mails (including Yolei and Ryo), Tai's mother sitting at the kitchen table looking at the cake she baked, Izzy leaving Tai's appartment, All the digimon happy with Gennai, and Sora e-mails Tai back. The e-mail reads "Taichi, I'm so sorry. Let's forget it happened. Thanks... Sora." Sora smiles and The mouse pointer closes the open window then shuts down the computer. The screen goes black.

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Alternate Versions

This movie is actually the second and third Japanese Digimon movies edited together as one. Japanese anime movies can often be under 60 minutes long, which is of course not marketable to American theaters. With these two movies on a similar theme, Fox Kids put them together.

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Connections

Referenced in The Benchwarmers (2006)

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Soundtracks

Change into Power
Performed and produced by Paul Gordon
Written by Paul Gordon, Shuki Levy, and Haim Saban (as Kussa Mahchi)
Used by permission of Eifoata Music and Kukunia Music

User Reviews

Funny, enjoyable, and is really just three episodes

It took me forever to figure it out, but after enough searching, I found out why.

I found that the movie was a lot like the show, so close that it seemed like they had just thrown three episodes together. The only reason I put up with this, these three 'episodes' were effectively on their own and were referred to briefely in the series (well, 2 of them were).

It ends up that I was half right. after searching, I found out that it isn't three episodes strung together, but currently there are some 6 digimon 'movies' released in Japan, and three of them are in this single movie that we saw in the western world. It seems that the Japanese form of a movie is 30 minutes long (how this works is beyond me).

Outside that, it was enjoyable. I had fun watching it, taping it and watching it again, and catching all the jokes they had. It's what makes the series enjoyable, and it sure saved the movie.