I literally watched this so movie so many times growing up that I can recite the script on command. ...I am not ashamed.

There's one exchange in the movie I will always love; Izzy: Do you know what a semi-conductor is? Tai: Uh, a guy who works part time at a train station? Izzy: Sigh, never mind.

Digimon anime > Pokemon anime Digimon games < Pokemon games Digimon = Pokémon

oh shit look its my childhood

DIGIHEAR DIGISEE DIGIKNOW WHAT'S COMING?

Our War Game (the middle part) is still the best part. Though if you wanna see it done better Summer Wars. Go watch Summer Wars.

Fucking HAAAAAAAAAAAAATE Angela Anaconda.

"It might say 5 minutes but it feels like 5 years " That's called time dilation. It happens when you get close to a black hole.

"I was surfing the net and I wiped out" Wow all these years of watching this movie and I just now got that joke

GOD, it's weird coming back to this and hearing Lara Jill Miller's voice after watching Beastars.

I'm kinda surprised he didn't mention that while the plots of the 3 films were altered in the "Digimon movie", the plot of the last film, originally Hurricane Touchdown, is near completely changed.

15:55 uh Bennett not to be THAT guy, but that's not Cocomon, Cocomon is it's baby form's name, THAT is the Champion form known as Wendigomon. Yes I am that much of a digimon nerd....I regret nothing.

10:01 You can take classes at a university or college while still going to school. Willis is still in elementary, but he's taking "classes" at Colorado state; which could mean he's either got college courses on the weekend or he goes to the college during the summer for courses. You don't "have" to be at college to take college courses. I know, "don't explain the joke", but this isn't a confusing concept.

I enjoyed this review waaaaaay more than The Nostalgia Critic's review for the chief reason of he knew the show and thus knew what was actually going on.

So wait, was Summer Wars Hosoda's way to atone for the sins of this movie? Watching the 2nd act, I'm thinking, "I'm watching Summer Wars but with Digimon characters"

My sister and I loved Digimon growing up, so naturally we convinced our parents to take us to see this when it came out. We were no longer allowed to watch the show after they sat through that.

oh my god i forgot about the fuckin digibowl

I remember when i went to see this. The cinema was slim on the morning it premiered and i got a Magnamon card

i can honestly say that i still love the digimon movie for how bad it is looking at it now and how hype i was watching it as a kid

Tamers is my favorite Digimon season!

i can never get enough of "in the mouth of madness" references. seriously love that movie.

Yohoho take a bite of these nuts . Sage 2017.

Dumpster fire is too generous. This is more like that prank that kids play where they fill a bag with dog shit, leave it on your front porch, set it on fire, ring the doorbell and run away.

I legit never liked the digimon movie rap, it was just weird. That being said, I actually enjoyed the movie even with its problems and plotholes. Would have been better as OVAs and if they were more fleshed out.

It may have been said already at this point but I say it anyway. Thank you Sage, its so irritating that no one ever mentions the idea that sometimes no matter how terrible a movie might be from a technical or critical level. Sometimes there is a reason that movies are loved and remembered by a small following regardless of scenario. "Art is not experienced in a vacuum" if more reviewers understood this I think that there would be a lot more cult followings rather then universal internet hate of so many stupid (yet lovable) campy old films, games, ect. You sir earned yourself a subscriber.

The sad thing is that the whole 'virus finding them in the real world' part is ridiculous but in the context of the show...made perfect sense. The problem is in adaptation. In some adaptations you have over-explanations where the movies try to hold your hand and walk you through everything that you should already know from the source material and then you have a movie like this which doesn't even bother. If you watched the shows, you understand, if you didn't then heaven help you. Added on top of that, i'm surprised you didn't mention the fact that the third portion takes place after a season that North America didn't even get. In the US editions we never see angemon and angewoman get their golden digi eggs, or see the evolved forms you see in that movie in the show. Because that portion never actually aired here. So even if you were an avid fan you're left going 'wait..what? When did that happen?'.

21:39 Cartman: That movie has warped my fragile little mind.

Summer Wars is like the good part of the Digimon Movie, but with CARD GAMES ON INTERWEBS!!

The Sam Neill joke is one of the best jokes you have ever made, Sage.

I actually really like The Digimon Movie unironically

I can't watch this without the TFS Abridged version popping up in my head.

21:35 - 22:17 I think that perfectly sums up how all the parents who were dragged into the theater felt. (And how I felt watching it again years later.)

The timing couldn't be better I received an alert for this video right as I finished playing digimon cyber sleuth

Prometheus and Bob!!

I rewatched Digimon in it's subbed form; you get a lot more out of the movies and show from the sub than you do the dub. Mind, yes the Digimon movie went through a nostalgia filter for me as a kid.

Shrek had the "All Star" song, and it used it better.

The worst part is that the newer releases for *Pokemon the First Movie* don't include the cute opening shorts, but all copies of *The Digimon Movie* have that Angela Anaconda skit.

Going to have to apologize to my dad for this. . .

"By the end of this you'll all realize why I am the way I am" ...*glaces at gabe**thinks back to sins of the sisters**thinks back to Apocalypse Zero* *thinks back to Mad Bull*Sweet Christ... this is gonna be good

I still have my VHS copy! Used to play it for my sister when my parent's went to work. Good memories with this one. The first season of the show is brilliant and I still watch them and the movie now and then.

This was actually the first anime "film" I ever watched, Blew me away as a kid! xD

I love how you wrapped up the ending, the Digimon movie was a big part of my childhood but I must admit the plot is lackluster.

I remember when I first found the unedited subtitled versions of the three movies that made this up. They're pretty decent went they aren't all trying to act as if there's a single nonexistent narrative between them.

I grew up on the third Digimon instead of Pokemon. All I remember was the leader always cried and at the end of the show, they evolved and mixed with their animals and were controlling them like EVAs. They were naked and you couldn't see their balls

I've waited so long for these day. Thank you my lord

I had forgotten how 90's this movie was ... and yeah, I can say that I would 've look back and not hate this movie as much as I should've .

Holy shit i forgot almost all of this Digimon crazy shit that wasn't actually just the show. Good God Fox and Saban, Your making 4kids look Dignified.

now I just need to see him review the yugioh movie, pokemon, digimon, yugioh, they were all part of my childhood

LOL, I think the ONE PIECE Rap is worse, but maybe it's because I'm a massive One Piece fan and anything involving the 4Kids Dub is just a constant kick to the balls. Thank goodness for FUNimation

Your nostalgia speech at the end of this episode really hit the nail on the head (^^) I couldn't agree more! Fantastic episode! It was a blast seeing you review Pokémon, Escaflowne and Digimon back to back!

I fricking love this movie even today just cause of the soundtrack

Dropped whatever I was doing when I saw the notification

Oh boy here we go

I was subjected to 45 minutes of this pile of pigshit by the anime club I was in 2 years ago. It was because we couldn't find Spirited Away. Yeah, this is some Shakespeare level tragedy.

Wow...I've never seen the Digimon movie but with the 90's music and animation, I'm having a nostalgia blowout over here. Lol

I loved the movie's soundtrack but my head spun as a child

The first thing I did after first seeing this "Movie" is I searched the internet for the 3 OVAs that FOX slapped together to make it and needless to say those were far more interesting.

Damn, lol. Only you could rip apart one of my favorite childhood movies and yet remind me why I loved it in the same video. Keep up the good work man, looking forward to the next review.

What Sage said about the nostalgia of this film hits home so hard for me. I was 13 when the Digimon movie came out on VHS. My dad promised me a copy for my birthday so my best friend, my sister and myself sat around watching it on a tiny TV/VCR combo on my dining room table. We ate pizza and birthday cake while chanting the theme song. To this day we look back on that weekend with fond memories. it's a dumb movie but I'll always remember that feeling of happiness getting to watch with my best friend and sister.

11:04 Goddammit, Bennett...I'm never gonna be able to listen to Kari's voice the same way again.

Nice review Bennett; it was informative and I loved the humour throughout. ^_^

*Sees notification* Time to sit back and watch Sage tear it a new data port

Oh wow, the Digi-Bowl. That was a memory that I had apparently literally blocked from my mind until now.

That NYC is a ghost town joke is fucking hilarious in 2020/2021.

Suave, this is a Kid's movie review! Get the fuck outta here! COme back when it is a PG13, R-Rated or Hentai film. But, you are still awesome.

Sage, you've been fiddling around with my childhood for the pass few reviews. Pretty sure my childhood won't be left untouched.... I realize how bad my phrasing is....

Every time I see a review of this film, I have forgotten about the Angela Anaconda short and every time I am slapped by its existence like a gigantic wet trout.

each of this short movies, individually, is really good

hey sage have you seen the three specials in their original version

the sad thing is that saban and levy used to make good theme songs songs for cartoons

I remember this movie from when I was REALLY young and was to little for the original anime but my brother showed this movie to me...long story short THANK CHRIST FOR DIGIMON TRI

So much nostalgia with the reference to the Digi-Bowl I still remember my frustration over the fact that it was a Digimon marathon playing /at the same time/ as a Pokemon marathon on Kids WB. That was the most stressful day of my childhood, having to decide between the two

I was like 7 when this came out, and watching it made me cringe even back then. (which was hella disappointing considering how big of a fan I was of the series) Go watch the movie Summer Wars. It basically did what the Digimon movie tried to do, but a million times better.

I know the thing as a whole is a dumpster fire, but what about the individual segments/thirds of this "film"? From what I remember and what I hear most often, the middle segment, "Our War Game" is often considered an incredible piece of animation for the Digimon franchise as a whole.

Man I remember having this thing on vhs as a kid. I honestly didn’t even know Angela anaconda was a real thing, missed out on the whole fox kids thing. And does anyone else finding it slightly odd that they scream out their attack names?

I love the soundtrack. Pure gold even now !

And come on, Bennett, DNA Digivolution and Golden Armor Energize were awesome.

Please watch Summer Wars... If you want to see Hosoda do the "Our War game movie" right.

I really don't get why people dislike this movie. I love the snarky dialogue and the music and I actually think they improved the plot with the changes. Some examples of what I think was improved: 1. They gave Diaboromon an actual motive for his actions, adding a tragic dimension to his character, and giving a reason for him dialing all those phones, not to mention giving him more lines, and, by extension, an actual personality, along with a reason for him existing in the first place. 2. They provided an actual reason for why Willis/Wallace's digimon got transformed. 3. They cut out the sub-plot of Wendigomon kidnapping and de-aging the season 1 kids. It's especially good considering that they never showed what happened to them afterwards in the original. 4. They improved Cherubimon's death scene with him thanking Willis/Wallace. 5. They improved the scene before Omnimon's creation with this line. Tai to Wargreymon: "I don't have a whistle to wake you." Tying together both shorts and adding more weight to the situation for Tai, perhaps the scene reminded of him what happened with Greymon and Parrotmon. 6. They improved Tai and Izzy's character interaction. Like in the scene where Tai attacks Izzy. In the original, it was just Izzy reading some rather lightly annoying emails, here it was one long and fairly nasty email without Izzy indicating they were someone else's words. They also gave Izzy a reason for needing to use the restroom, with the whole gag of Tai's mom's recipes instead of him just having too much tea. 7. This bit: "I'm Greymon now." "You can be whoever you want...big guy..." Cue roar and epic beatdown 8. This line: Izzy: YOU'VE!!! GOT!!! MAIL!!! followed by Diaboromon: "Connection...terminated..." 9. A lot of the music really helps give the movie more energy, for example: "One Week" because the music really fits the fast montage of daily life events and mirrors Tai and Sora's situation. "Here We Go" adds tension and importance to the situation along with Matt and TK's dialogue, really getting the audience to feel how everyone's hopes are pinned on the heroes and their determination to prevail despite the odds against them. "Let's kick it up." Especially the way the "Yeah!"s in the song synch up with Omnimon's blasting. "Hey Digimon" with the happy childlike feel to it, especially with the random children chasing them. It really adds a nostalgic joy of childhood feel to the scene. The English digivolution theme, during the fight between Parrotmon and Greymon. It sounds triumphant and it especially goes well with the fight, like it's saying "This is who we are and what we do." 10. Kairi's voiceover. While it could state the obvious, especially in the first segment, it mostly provides either humorous commentary on the events, or gives the audience information they wouldn't have had otherwise (e.g. what's with the phone dialing?). Also, I have a crush on Lara Jill Miller's voice... Don't judge me xD Now, I don't think the movie was perfect. They whole "pulling out Golden Digi-eggs from nowhere after suddenly being able to mega-digivolve" thing really makes no sense. I also thought Sora came off as being rather bratty and unfair, not coming to help Tai or even hear what was going on. But I don't think those ruin the movie. If anyone disagrees with me, I respect their opinion, but I think this movie gets an unfairly bad rap from it's critics.

11:05 You know, it's sad that I've been a fan of this series since I was a little kid, but only know that fact dawned on me...

here come the fan boys.

Honestly? The final product could of been much worse than it turned out and the sound track still makes it an easy watch.

One of the best things about the internet is that you can find an HD reconstruction of this movie. Yes, Digimon: The Movie does exist in 1080p...sort of.

I was hoping you'd mention at some point that the first half of this film was the prototype for what would become "Summer Wars," as the design of the digital world, the way the characters and set pieces are painted, and even the general plot of the corrupted digimon/avatar growing ever larger and taking over all technology.

watching the Japanese versions of the three... I want to call them "short films", individually tho... that's a much better time. you'll find that they edited out a crap tonne of content and changed a lot of context.

this is why people need to go watch the tamers movie that isnt terrible

"Yes, Parotmon." But it's clearly a budgerigar!

The soundtrack of this movie is awesome.

Angela anaconda was one my fav shows as a kid, so this was ok. Not anymore

A $5,000,000 budget? Well let's see, purchesing the rights to the shorts, voice acting, advertising, licensing for the music, and hiering that one dude for the commerical.... that leave what, $20 to pay some dork to sit down for an afternoon and edit this mess together? Sure as hell seems that way. Abridging has shown us it's possible to take from several sources and edit them together and get something that's genuinely watchable.

I swear to God, halfway through this video, there was an ad for an official Pokémon app. How quaint.

I too loved this movie when I was kid just as much as I loved the tv-show. But yeah it hasn't aged well.

Sage, have you seen Steel Angel Kurumi?

Angela...Anaconda. Never heard of it/seen that before, and now I regret that I have, even briefly.

This has and forever will be my guilty pleasure.

4:48 Can you tell that this was released in the early oughts? When almost everything tried to have a hip-hop/rap spin to it? Like NARC, Def Jam, True Crime, 25 to Life, and more?

It hasn't even been a fucking week since his Escaflowne review! How the fuck did this happen?! It usually takes a while for his reviews to come out!

Digimon Adventure and Our War Game are much better in Japanese. Hosoda worked on those first two parts and he did a really good job on them. The part of the movie where they go to America is still terrible in the original Japanese.

Have exactly the same feeling. My best friend and I got a copy of this, and watched it on his dad's projector. It is a woeful film, but the childhood memories are not.

That Sam Neil In The Mouth of Madness reference was PERFECT. lmfao