But I don't think so, digimon is sometimes better without human, so we can only focus with the story and characterization of the digimon, also how they face such a thing..
The background story is about the digital world, where digimon lives in it is experiencing a serious chaos. Unlike other series, while the chaos of other digimon series (except Tamers) involves about darkness invasion or evil swarm, this series has no dark or evil related things. The chaos is about the overpopulation of digital world, which the host computer, Yggdrasil can't handle and thus it executes the X Program in order to make only some of chosen digimon will be survived in the end of execution, named Project Ark.
Maybe there will be many questions we want to know. We will perhaps ask: "What's the purpose of Project Ark?" "Why Yggdrasil dares to do such a thing? Doesn't it really care about the life of a lot of digimon out there? It's a host computer a.k.a. God of Digital World." We would expect in the first that: "Yggdrasil is so evil of doing such of things. It doesn't care about others' life.."
But who knows? We'll see it then...
Now we go to the story progress.. This movie tells a story about Dorumon, a digimon that owns X-Antibody naturally being hunted by Leomon who eventually died bcos he didn't dare to kill such an innocent Child level digimon, asking Dorumon to live for him later before he died. And then being rejected by 3 Mushmons saying that Dorumon is the one who will bring destruction just like another X-Antibody digimon because he had a red ruby on his forehead, explaining that Dorumon is the personification of the launching of the X Program. Meanwhile, Royal Knights, which are responsible for the execution of Project Ark, began to do that task. However, debate came between 2 of the Royal Knights, Dukemon and Omegamon. Dukemon, on the other hand, refuse to do the task because he seems that the Project Ark is something wrong. Even the Project Ark eventually came to the second level, to destroy everything including all digimon.
We might also ask: "Omegamon, one of Royal Knights want to kill a lot of digimon? That's crazy! Where is his proud of being guardian of digital world? What an evil motive.."
Is that so? I doubt it..
Now we go to the characterization progress and development.. Dorumon is the main protagonist of this movie. He's just an innocent Child digimon who always questioning about what's his purpose of being live. He often got into danger thanks to the execution of Project Ark. He can't bear his sadness seeing many digimon died for surviving, even some of them died for him. He later thought that his existence is just bringing chaos to other digimon, and also thinking that his existence is not needed in this world. Nevertheless, he later began matured as the story progresses. He's not the typical shounen MC who finished everything with only his own power and being the leader of the comrade, also he's not the only one that the story only focused in. The Royal Knights also had a lot of characterization as the story progresses. The knights aren't truly evil, no, they're not evil at all. They're just in dilemma, whether to obey their master or to struggle for the existence of everything, they must be facing the most difficult situation. They were later thinking about what they have done before and began to find the answer of Yggdrasil.
So, is Yggdrasil that evil? Does it really want to end the digimon life cycle? No, Yggdrasil was just in desperation. Why it really dare to do such a thing? Why was it desperate about it? The answer is really, really simple. Because Yggdrasil only wants to 'LIVE'.. So simple right? That's what I really like about this movie. They're facing a very difficult situation, but the reason of the difficult situation was really simple. That's why it became the theme of this movie. [ Subete no Inochi wa Ikiru Tame ni Aru ], meaning "Life exists for living." Even they said this sentence in the end of the movie.
The theme is really simple, but if you understand it deeper, you'll find how beautiful the sentence is. Even I think that the sentence actually wants to tell you some values of life.
Well, we usually see someone being desperate of such a thing and eventually ended up suicide. They didn't find their purpose of life so that they thought being dead was better. Dude, even in this movie, all digimon were struggling with all their might in order to live although for just a second.
We even usually see many people killed or enslaved something with life (animals) for no apparent reason and without mercy. They just want to do for their own sake without concerning others' life. That's why I think the writers concerned about those situations so they want to share their thoughts with this movie.
This is not an ordinary digimon movie, this is a movie that tells you the values of life.
I have no comment about the sound and graphic, it's just as awesome as they are.. Well, it's a 2005 film after all, so with that graphic and sound, it's more than great.
I hope this review will be useful for you all and I highly recommend it for loyal Digimon fans.
I'm a digimon fan indeed, but I won't always say that all digimon series are the best. No, I'm not a digifag.. I just found this digimon movie being different comparing to other series and it had something very special in it.
