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To be found only in the children's
section, there is the anime that is Digimon, Digital Monsters. Then
there is the film. Or as it should be said 'Three films cut, edited
and squashed uncomfortably together'. The Japanese version consisted
of three separate films, but of course, because its a children's program,
a third of each movie had to be deemed unsuitable. And so we have
Digimon: The Movie.
As soon as the movie begins all the
familiar traits appear, appalling animation, pop soundtrack, little
plot twists that are needed to keep the movie whole, but that will
leave the intended audience confused and frustrated.
But this really doesn't affect why we watch the movie. There is a
plot, a simple, but highly effective one, after the first forgettable
movie, familiar characters appear, and the story quickly
takes off about an evil Internet Digimon threatening to destroy the web.
However ludicrous it sounds, it somehow works, and well. The third
movie is obviously the most rushed and the most cut movie, supplying
the Digimon and Digivolutions that
the kids watch the series for.
This film isn't brilliant, but it isn't aimed at hard-core anime fans.
It's aimed at kids, but that doesn't stop it from being a funny, fast
paced, and an often clever - for -it's- genre anime.
7/10 I love this film, and viewers need to understand what this anime
should be, not what paranoid censors have twisted it into.
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