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• Actors: Lara Jill Miller, Joshua Seth, Bob Papenbrook, Doug Erholtz, David Lodge
• Directors: Mamoru Hosoda, Minoru Hosoda, Shigeyasu Yamauchi
• Writers: Jeff Nimoy, Bob Buchholz, Akiyoshi Hongo, Reiko Yoshida
• Producers: Makoto Shibazaki
• Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: February 6, 2001
• Run Time: 82 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (127 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000056BS8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,470 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Digimon - The Movie" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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Like the similar Pokémon craze, the animated Digimon TV series has spawned a full-length theatrical film. The two phenomena are similar: kids collect monsters and go on adventures. While Pokémon has a sense of odyssey and a wisp of a moral, Digimon is flat-out rough-and-tumble adventure. Can an adult figure out the digi-details of the digi-world? Here's a digi-shot. That world is full of evolving monsters that live and fight in their own ways. The digi-world and real world can intermix, and one of the portals is the Internet. So kids sit at their laptops and fight with their digi-monsters in an abstract environment that looks like something from Tron but with none of the cool. The first 50 of 83 minutes is backstory that takes place eight years earlier. So everyone is grown up (as the time frame leaps over all the original Digimon TV shows), and Digimon and humans interact on Earth. A bad digi-virus is bent on revenge, and it will take more than a laptop to defend the planet. That said, if the end of the world ever looms, a golden digi-egg will be a good thing to have. (Ages 6 to 12) --Doug Thomas

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DIGIMON:MOVIE - DVD Movie

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Movie!, December 9, 2000

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Rene (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Digimon - The Movie [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Three great short films from Japan based on the popular series come together in edited form to make 90 minutes of entertainment. And having Kari, one of the characters, narate the story gives the appearance of one story, which adds to the strength of this movie

The first movie is approximately 10-15 minutes long and details what happened four years before the first season of the show. Tai and his sister Kari see a digi egg exit from their computer screen and a small Digimon is born. Kari becomes attached to this creature. Eventually, the Digimon digivolves to Greymon and protects the city from Parrotmon.

The first movie has it's moment. Young Kari is adorable and even in young Tai we already begin to see Tai the leader of the Digidestined that we see in the first season of Digimon. The friendship between Kari and Agumon also adds a touching element to the story. It's almost heartbreaking when, after the Digimon disappears, Kari yells out, "Don't you wanna play with me anymore?"

We fast forward four years later. The second movie takes place after the first season of the show. It's unclear exactly when. Izzy, one of the Digidestined, joins with Tai to try and defeat this strange Digimon who is invading the internet. With the help of their Digimon, Agumon and Tentomon, they try to battle this strange Digimon. But this Digimon keeps digivolving at an accelerated rate. So Izzy contacts the other Digidestined and manages to get Matt and TK to help along with their Digimon...Patamon and Gabumon. Agumon and Gabumon are able to digivolve to their Mega level...and eventually join together and defeat this evil Digimon....or so they think...

The second movie has a lot of action...but every few minutes, the action goes down a bit so we can have some humor. The main subplot of the second movie involves a silly argument between Tai and Sora. Tai tried to give Sora a hair clip for her birthday and Sora thinks this is Tai's way of criticizing her hairstyle. :) Women! They always have to analyze everything. Anyway...the battles are intense and the music just great. Many songs from the tv show are played during the battle and you can't help but sing along...if you like the music, of course.

The third movie takes place four years later...Sometime during the second season. (Actually, the second season still hasn't reached the point at which this part of this movie is set. This is clearly seen because in the show, Patamon and Gatomon don't have the ability to warp digivolve yet, an ability they clearly have in this movie.) Anyway...in this part of the movie, we learn that the evil Digimon four years ago was created by Willis and is actually a computer virus. And it wasn't really defeated. It somehow escaped into the real world and has infected one of Willis' digimon. Willis is also a Digidestined and has twin digimon. Anyway...for the past four years, one of Willis's Digimon was infected with the virus and making Willis' life miserable. But with the help of Davis and the other Digidestined, they manage to defeat the virus again and free Cocomon from the virus' control.

The third movie, while not as charming as the first two, has some moments. Humor is one of it's strenght. The plot is a bit vague...but it doesn't hurt the movie in general.

So, if you are a fan of the show, you will not be dissappointed by this movie.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Omega!, January 28, 2001

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Digimon - The Movie [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Digimon: The Movie is a segment of three movies, all relased seperately in Japan. In movie 1, before season one (the original airings on telivision), Tai (Taichi) and Kari (Hikari), two special characters, meet Koromon at ages 7 and 4. Tai is 7, Kari is 4. They meet a special Digimon who turns out to be Tai's partner in season 1. This movie was short and to me, pretty un-interesting, but I loved it anyhow!

Movie 2, aka Part 2, takes place after season 1. Izzy (Koushiro) discovers a DigiEgg on the computer. It hatches in to a baby digimon, and begins to eat up data on the internet. Soon, people from all over the world are watching the battle between Diaboromon (strongest level of digimon) on their computers. Even Yolei (Miyako) from season 2 at a young age appears, sending e-mails along with other kids to Tai, Izzy, Matt (Yamato), and T.K. (Takeru). Eventually, they beat Diaboromon.

Movie 3 takes place during season 2. Davis (Daisuke), Yolei, Cody (Iori), T.K. and Kari are hanging out at a beach. Davis, Yolei, and Cody are all new Digidestined, mind you. They meet Willis and his Digimon Terriermon. He had twin Digimon, Terriermon and Lopmon, but Lopmon ran away and grew up confused and evil. Now Lopmon, aka "Endigomon", tells Willis to "go back", as Willis comes from Colorado. WIllis created Diaboromon when he wanted three Digimon instead of two. But, when he made Diaboromon, a virus infected him and so started movie 2. But, they cut out HALF OF THIS MOVIE in the American version. Endigomon originally captures the old Digidestined in order to find Willis. THEY CUT THIS OUT! HALF OF THE MOVIE! But, it was so cool, my grandparents even liked it! "Kids in America" by Len is playing during the credits. PRODIGIOUS MOVIE! I also have a movie clip of the cut scenes in Japanese. PRODIGIOUS MOVIE!

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Digimon the Movie is #1, January 30, 2001

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"tsmmitjk" (Sierra Vista, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Digimon - The Movie [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Digimon the Movie was soooooooo cool. Also it is actually 3 movies in 1 Movie. It starts out with the 1st segment when the Season 1 Digidestined are little kids. Although it only lasts about 15 minutes, they pack a bunch of action in it.

And in the second segment, it is after all the Season 1 Digidestined Kids adventures in the Digiworld are over, or so they think. Izzi discovered a Digi-Egg when he was using his computer. Then he rushes over to Tai's house and then, Jinia, Augumon, Biyomon, Gabumon, Palmon, Tentomon, Patamon, Gomamon, and Gatomon contact Tai and Izzi to tell them that Augumon and Tentomon are going to go to the Internet to help Tai & Izzi destroy Diaboromon. And then Tai contacts Matt & T.K. and Matt & T.K.they send Gabumon & Patamon to the Internet too. Then when Gabumon & Augumon get together they Warp Digivolve into Metalgarurumon & Wargreymon. And then the amazing happens, Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon Digivolve into Omnimon and defeat Diaporamon.

The third section is 4 years after the 2nd segment. Kari & T.K. go to New York to visit Mimi, but while they are sight seeing they see a boy named Willis and his Digimon Terriermon fighting his other Digimon Cocomon. And later Davis, Demiveemon, Yolie, Poromon, Cody, and Upamon are in America thanks to Yolie's family. and they meet Willis and get a Pizza guy to help them go to Colorado. But Davis, Veemon, Willis, & Terriermon get left behind. So Veemon armor Digivolves into Raidramon and gets them caught up with Yolie and Cody. And soon after that Kari, Angewomon, T.K., and Angemon meet up with them. And all the kids become babies again and Angemon & Angewomon Warp Digivolve to their Mega levels and then Golden Digi-Eggs are released and Veemon & Terriermon Golden Armor Digivolve and Destroy the virus in Cocomon and Cocomon and then everything goes back to normal.