I've lightened my view on this movie since I posted this video. Definitely over exaggerated how bad it is. It's still very enjoyable, despite the changes made to it. Though it's definitely odd at some points. I still want to see a new English dub of the originals, however.

Best lines in the movie: -Did you see that? -No, I was sleeping. -BUT YOU’RE DRIVING!!

The Digimon Movie dub soundtrack is the most 90s thing in existence.

Me watching this as a little kid: Izzy: he’s launched a nuclear missile! 6 year old me: haha nice! 18 year old me rewatching the movie: wait time out, this boy launched a NUKE!!?

I was born in 98 and I wouldnt trade the experience I got from watching this movie a million times as a squirt for anything.

This movie, not Shrek, is what introduced me to All Star.

As a kid born in 94, I remember watching this movie like it was one of the best things I’d ever seen haha. I loved the animation, I loved the internet aspect of it, I loved how creepy the villain was. I watched it like a hundred times.

I’m almost 28 years old and the scene where Greymon says his name and the digimon theme begins, still give me chills.

People say littlekuriboh was the first abridger but clearly it was 20th century fox

I thought Kari had some kind of 'asthma', in the tv show I remember something about her having coughing fits and getting sick. Maybe that's why she can't blow the whistle as hard?

Tai awakening Greymon is one of the most awesome moments in an anime movie I ever saw.

"Digimon don't die" Then came tamers were everything can die XD

Your view of this film is like, the opposite of my experience. The visuals and pacing had me living as a kid. It's what introduced me to digimon and to this day, nothing has topped it's depth and dare I say it.. wonder. :)

I thought this movie was great and still do to this day. The westernized soundtrack basically defined my 90's music preferences. And I love all the clever lines in the dub. Giant Agumon jumps over truck Passenger: "Woah did you see that?!" Driver: "No, I was sleeping..." Passenger: "But you were driving!" Absolute pure gold!

"The movie ends with All Star by Smash Mouth" *what*

Wow the digirap got me so unexpectedly hyped. Never underestimate the power of nostalgia

“When this one digivolved, he expanded more than my uncle Fred at thanksgiving.” Whatever you’re into Kari

16:25- Dub: Wendigomon dancing happily after being revived. Sub: Wendigomon essentially having a panic attack after being rejected...which leads into his Digivolution into Antlyamon.

You know, I know it's awful. I know it's a mess. I know it's a shameless cash grab that was geared towards young kids who didn't know any better. But I love it.

I've come to realize that with regards to Digimon, there are two camps. Those who watched Digimon later (and missed the original dub airings of the first two seasons) / those who watched non-English localizations usually have a harsh view of the dubs. The other camp loves the dubs because they remember going into the movie theater or watching at home and that nostalgic feel of the music and voice acting (digirap included) forgoes the changes that were made. Remember that to this latter camp, the dub was Digimon, they didn't know about the subs, it was just another cartoon to them that came to encapsulate the good vibes of growing up in the late 90's early 00's. Remember that before Allstar became a meme, most kids heard it first on the Digimon the Movie soundtrack. Hell, it was the first time I heard the Barenaked Ladies band. Lets also not forget the dub soundtrack had its gems "Lets Kick it Up" and "Here we go". I think it's mainly due to the fact that the Digimon anime never had as big as an audience, and after the original runs, it was neigh impossible for a kid or young adult to watch the older shows (therefore they had to find the sub versions on the internet) which leads to this split in opinion. You never hear about dub haters for Pokemon (AFAIK), for instance.

You can’t drop a digirap with out warning

"She tells you everything that happens 5 seconds before it does. Just let the audience figure it out!" YES, THANK YOU!

fox practicing their meme formats 10 years ahead of everybody else confirmed*

16:00 Fun fact that scene canonicity error with Veemon/Demiveemon in the opening is actually in the Japanese too. I'm not kidding watch that he first minute of the Japanese version he goes from Veemon to Demiveemon with no transition or reason there too.

Angela Anaconda is the bane of my existence.

You got to give the dub team credit they tried they're hardest to make this idea work, but was given nothing for it

still better than 4kids' One Piece dub That isn't an endorsement of Digimon: The Movie, it's an indictment of 4kids' One Piece dub.

"When this one Digivolved, he expanded more than my Uncle Fred on Thanksgiving." Just a few minutes beforehand: Highton View Terrace, *JAPAN* 8 Years Ago

I always wondered why the last half felt out of place.

Connection Terminated... WIllis. Man, I love that line. Always hear it in my head whenever there's an intense, usually time-limited event in a movie or game.

This is easily one of my favorite movies ever. We need to agree to disagree

I still regularly quote this movie as my all-time favorite whenever someone asks. Objectively speaking, it's awful. But, no other film has ever gotten me consistently hyped as this film does. Half of it is nostalgia, undoubtedly, but that's the beauty of opinions. P.S. we need to bring back Ska

Honestly, the first 1/2 (Movies 1 & 2) are a fucking masterpiece. I don't even care about the butchered plot, I absolutely love it. The humor is perfect, the voice acting is intense, the bgm and music choices are astounding outside of maybe "lets kick it up". The Hurricaine Touchdown part is another story.

20:49 the worst English dub of all time you say? 4kids: Hold my beer err I mean apple juice.

Did you see that? No I was sleeping. BUT YOUR DRIVING!!!

Just watch the Japanese versions. The way the original directors intended.

This movie is a guilty pleasure.

Idk if it's just me but the constant awful puns are part of why I love the digimon dub

for our war game it does have Izzy's badass "you've got mail" line so i wanna forgive everything else just for that alone

I could actually watch him sway to All Star for probably the whole length of the song. Some glorious animation happened in this/these.

Fun fact, due to the excessive cutting and editing of the film by legal standards it is a western work.

The other films through Frontier got dubbed, and NEVER GOT A HOME RELEASE IN ANY FORM. That's the real tragedy. Revenge of Diaboromon, Runaway Locomon, Island of Lost Digimon, all got dubbed, and aired on TV a few times, and never seen again. You literally can't watch them dubbed unless you torrent.

This movie and soundtrack are as hype as it gets “I RUN AROUND YOU RUN AROUND!”

This movie was the best movie in the world for me. It really gave me a sense of goodness. So many emotions i cant really explain. Me : 11/10 This dude:0/10 And i say to each their own.

IM GREYMON NOW! I don’t care I still love this American version

Not to mention they took out the part where Greymon gored out Parrotmon's beak with his horn.

12:58 I beg to differ. I saw Digimon growing up and I still love this movie. Man, Diaboromon and the flower-->rabbit-->dark digimon at near the end of the third part still gives me nightmares. I fast forward through the Angela Anaconda part

This reminds me of summer wars "The director later went to make summer wars." HA.

As a kid, I loved it's movie, unable to see the flaws, cause well... I was just a kid. How here I am, 21, playin digimon on my channel, and I still love the movie, flaws and all. There's just something about it, I think I still love it because it makes me feel like a kid again. Not to mention Paul Gordon's "Let's Kick it Up" is a fucking amazing soundtrack IMO.

I've exclusively watched all the digimon movies in Cantonese. SO I HAD NO IDEA THE ENGLISH WOULD BE THIS.. fun?

I remember being so confused by the movie bc of the time skips and not really knowing what was going on bc I hadn't seen the whole series but I remember loving the animation.

I loved the movie. It’s good to know that there is actually separate movies I can watch now

The Rap cured my Cancer

No disrespect to all those who loved the english version but I absolutely hated it. I watched the japanese versions first and I was genuinely excited to see how the US handled it. I was young and very optismistic and also never watched the english dub of the anime since my country made our own which stuck true to the original. Then cue the Digimon rap, the noticably shorter time, the removed scenes, the few plot-related inconsistencies, Koromon talking after he evolved into Agumon and Greymon, the change in music and dialogue and the made-up plotline with Wallace which was frustrating to me because I liked Wallace so much he become my fifth favorite Chosen Child for a time. But I won’t try to change the mind of anyone who loves the english film. If you liked it, good. We are all entitled to what we like and don’t like.

you didn't mention the best line from the first segment: "dude, did you see that?" "no I was sleeping" (for context this is when agumon jumped over the truck)

This movie is GOLDEN! The comedy in this movie is priceless 😂👌🏼

okay am I one of the few people that didnt mind the digirap?

Digicide sounds like a form of suicide oh it actually said digisize, i just misheard

I will fight anyone who says the first movie was bad I loved it. And still do. The soundtrack changed my music taste to punk rock early and I loved it. That being said its corny and bad but it will always have a special place in my heart

"When that one digi-volved, it expanded more than my uncle Fred at Thanksgiving"

Other than the Angela Anaconda this movie was my childhood and gets a pass lmao

someone start a kick starter to re dub the first 3 movies

I LOVED the experience of watching it as a kid, and I have a TON of nostalgia for it, especially the soundtrack....I remember watching certain parts of the movie over and over just to hear the music. I do think that the movie being made out of the first 2 portions would be the most effective. The first is 20 minutes, and the 2nd is 45 minutes. That's 65 minutes of material. Opening titles, ending credits, Tai as the narrator, and some kind of bridging montage to cover the time-gap in between the two parts....and you EASILY have a super lean, mean, 75-80 minute feature film that would have felt much more satisfying than the weird hodgepodge 3rd act that we got in the finished movie. I would love to see some sort of special cut of that original movie that sort of re-crafts it with only those original 2 pieces.

Watching the original three Japanese specials and Digimon: The Movie back to back, it seems pretty clear that the Western adaptation ended up being perfect for 90s kids. Very little was changed in the Our War Game portion, which is easily the strongest act of the movie, and what was changed makes sense for the intended audience. I really do prefer the sound design and soundtrack changes (both very, very noticeable in Our War Game), and it wouldn't be the same without the ska/punk, or that hearty Greymon voice. The overarching narration tying it all together also provided a lifeline for the less initiated.

@Billman, I HATED how Angemon and Angewomon's Mega forms were WASTED for some Dame eggs!!! Sephirimon and Magnadramon COULD HAVE WON THEMSELVES!!!!!

Honestly, I'm kinda surprised to hear anyone hate this movie. My group of friends loved it and still do. Hating Amanda Anaconda I get though.

I still have an unironic love for this film. I should really watch the originals at some point...

I dont fucking care. I love the movie and always will. Lol

I loved this movie as a kid so rewatched it a year or so ago for nostalgia's sake. It really is awful, but underneath all that there is a great movie. I would love to see it remade and done properly.

I always liked the voice acting in this movie, but yeah even as a kid something always seemed to be off.

“I was 4 when this movie comes out and I loved it” Yep, that is literally me and all I remember about the movie... well, loving it and the whistle scene

I don’t care if this movie is a mess, I love it

This is the only piece of Digimon media I've ever expereinced, had this on vhs when I was a kid. The saddest part is, I could never get the songs from the movie, even though I loved them.

Digimon movie got me into Ska Punk. I owe like 95% of my music collection to it.

I'd never seen digimon before I saw the entire movie in my KZfaq feed yesterday. It's amazing and I wouldn't change any of it.

I genuinely love this movie. I understand the Sub is better, but it was magical and fun to watch growing up. Call it nostalgia, but the Dub cast, jokes, and animation were all phenomenal. It holds up surprisingly well, even my friend who doesn't like anime commented on how it kept him engaged and did a good job of introducing some of the universe. I remember being on the edge of my seat as a kid a the intense battle with the virus and being amazed at the beauty of the intro. I'll check out the sub though thanks for the suggestion.

I like Digimon better than Pokémon

I loved digimon and got this movie when it came out when I was about 10. I loved it at the time but I knew even then something weird was going on.

Youll never convince me that this movie isn't a 10/10 mastahpiece

This movie is a DigiDisaster... Wow what an original joke

Absolutely adored the dub. Sure it has it's rough edges but the whole birth of Omnimon scene was so tear jerking that it is still my all time favorite Digimon moment ever with the Birth of Gallantmon in my 2nd.

So basically the dub wasn't the issue it was the pacing and jokes that ruined it, which isn't the voice actors fault at all really. Personally this comical style of dubbing was used a lot back in the early 2000's and 90's it was opted into with such anime as ghost stories and evangelion 2 complete fucking classics for different reasons of course.

"Not a single theater showing this film was that full" Bruh. I saw this movie opening weekend and it was packed to the gills. We almost couldn't find open seats in a theater that was showing it in three full-sized screening rooms. This movie was equally as popular and hyped as the first Pokemon movie at the time among the target demographic. They even copied Pokemon and handed out exclusive limited-run cards from the Digimon Trading Card Game to people who saw it within the first four days. The Digimon Movie is definitely a mess, but I wouldn't go nearly as far as calling it a tragedy. The humor is pretty on point for the American dub, and none of it seems out of character. That dumb bit with Davis having a meltdown and then immediately getting over it is exactly something I could see english Davis doing in the show. And I'll fully admit to this being nostalgia, but watching Greymon go full tilt against Birdramon while the english Digimon theme kicked in was the most hype shit my dumb 11 year old ass had ever experienced. Same with seeing Omnimon for the first time and watching him fight. I still get goosebumps watching them lol. And again, this is pure nostalgia talking and I won't fault you for not digging it, but the DigiRap is a fucking jam and I will die on that hill. I'd argue the first Yu-Gi-Oh movie is the worst anime film of all time. Literally just two dudes standing in place shit-talking each other over a game of holographic Go Fish for an hour or so.

Nah. The jokes are what make this so iconic. Your disdain is misguided friend. This is pure art

Agree to disagree. A movie doesn't have to be good to be enjoyable, seems like a lot of people still love this film.

The Digimon movie is just a horrendous Frankenstein of cute Japanese short films with 90's cheese on top.

The soundtrack has been burnt into my brain for the last ten years.

I'm only 3 years late finding this video; but I had a great time watching this haha. I personally loved the 2000 English version for as campy as it was, and watching it in 2020 certainly didn't do it any favors. Still, a fantastic piece of nostalgia. Enjoyed looking at it through a more critical lens from your video, great presentation!

Honestly getting a satellite uplink wouldn’t have been expensive, but everything else would nearly impossible and a pain in the ass. Assuming the protagonists have a satellite dish for their television, which is likely considering the setting, then they’ve got half the stuff they’d need as they’d have a way of connecting to a satellite, as the dish which normally functions as a downlink should work as an uplink. The other thing they’d need would be a military-grade code-breaking computer and a few hours to hack their way into the military satellite, and some way of preventing the government from kicking them off the satellite and the U.S. Navy/U.S. Army nuclear launch codes or ANOTHER military-grade code-breaker and a few hours to guess the nuclear launch codes. And it’d be a fucking pain in the ass to do as they’d need A THIRD military-grade encrypting/decrypting machine to encrypt and decrypt signals going to and from the satellite. And there’s no way the U.S. Military would let the protagonists launch a nuke that easily. So the uplink would be cheap, but everything else would be bankruptingly expensive. And almost impossible. Fun fact: if this film was set in the 60’s, the protagonists launching a nuke by accident would be more believable as the nuclear launch codes were literally seven zeros. 0000000 were the American nuclear launch codes until the 70’s. No kidding.

I honestly love this movie and don't think it's as bad as everyone says

I love the DIgirap so much It's the best horribe thing ever

The one thing that shines about Digimon: The Movie is the Digi-Rap.

I'm pretty sure that Mew Mew Power is a worse American adaptation. Sure, 4Kids is an easy target, but even for them it's just lackluster, to put it nicely. The whole Digimon movie isn't bad. The first two parts hold up nicely. It's the third that's the weak spot. Ironically, critics generally preferred the Digimon movie to the Pokemon movie. More ironic, as much crap as it gets, the movie was still a box office sucess, which is really saying something when Hey Arnold's movie couldn't even break even. I'm surprised there wasn't a "What'chu talkin' 'bout Willis" joke in here.

I'm just wondering how the FUCK she squeezed onions

I'm not going to lie I really really really really really really really love the Digimon the movie soundtrack and it has been and still is one of my favorite movies

is it weird that I can nearly quote the whole dub movie

All Star is the best Digimon

They should’ve rick rolled us.

The title of this video really upsets me It was iconic to my childhood lmao

I understand people who say they find the movie nostalgic, because nostalgia is weird in the way. But I still urge anyone who has seen it to watch all of the movies included in it with subs! Digimon movies are really beatiful and somber and should be experienced at least once in their original form, imo.