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Digimon Adventure (Movie)

Ah Digimon, a childhood favourite for many. But as we all know how we perceive shows now and how we perceive shows as a child are completely different. So how is this childhood classic seen from a supposedly more critical individual?

As you first start the movie you are immediately hit with the nostalgic Digimon theme song: “Digimon, Digital monsters, Digimon are the champions!”, a dangerously catchy tune that will have you humming it for ages afterwards. For a twenty-minute movie not much else can be said about sound except if you watch the English dub, they surprise the viewer by using some well known upbeat American songs.

This is supposed to be a prequel to the anime series. Being such a short film you can’t expect to know who all the characters are or what the main bulk of the story is unless you are familiar with the show. Having said that it does deliver the premise quite well at the beginning of this film with the simple sentences: “Did you know that there are two worlds? Our world and the digital world.” From that you immediately thrown into the Digimon world and all its glory. This particular story only follows two of our ‘Digidestined’; Hikari and her elder brother Tai, just normal children in an otherwise normal city. This is where the series actually starts as they encounter their first Digimon and all the things that come with it.

For viewers who are familiar with the Digimon franchise this is a fulfilling re-watch, which questionably enough comes to be heart-warming. For viewers who are yet to discover the Digiworld this is a good introduction to the real show -- Digimon: Digital monsters, which is set four years after the events of this film. Digimon Adventure has genuinely been an enjoyable movie; childhood favourite or not - as it delivers reasonable voice acting without sounding childishly lame; sophisticated execution for a show primarily aimed for children and decent animation for an anime from 1999. If you have 20 minutes to spare check it out -- either to remember the Digimon days or to embark on Digimon days to come.

As they say in the theme song: “Digimon, Digital monsters, Digimon are the champions!”

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Digimon Adventure is a short 20-minute movie that kicks off the Digimon saga. It is about Taichi and Hikari's first encounter with a digimon, when they were small children. A Botamon egg appears from their PC, hatches, eventually evolving into a Greymon and protects the children from an attacking Parrotmon.

Story
The story is good enough, though nothing really special. It gets the job done - introduces us to the digimon and the main characters, pus the idea of digivolution. There really isn't much room for story in a small movie like this, but I still think they could have expanded on this more.

Art
The art is good enough, for it's day, though looking at it now, it's not all that impressive. Still, it looks cute, and that works well in this situation.

Sound
There is pretty much only one background song through the whole movie, and it's not even a very nice one. I got sick of it pretty quickly, and they used it in all the wrong places. The scene where Parrotmon appears needed more dramatic music, not that cheesy rubbish. On the upside, I really liked the ending theme. :3

Character
This movie establishes the basic character outlines for Taichi and Hikari - Tai as the overprotective brother and Kari as the cute little sister. Like the story, there really is no chance for expansion here much, but Ithink they could've put in some more effort.

Enjoyment/Overall
This serves as a decent introduction the the Digimon series, but doesn't do very well as a stand-alone movie. Fans of the series will like this for the cute interaction between Koromon and Hikari, but other than that, there really isn't much going for it. Still, I think it is worth checking out. ^_^ read more