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While some children spend their summer vacation playing ball or going to the beach, seven kids use their free time to help save the world in this feature-length animated adventure adapted from the pop... read more read more...ular television series. While attending summer camp, a group of kids playing with computers are transported into a digital universe, where they make friends with the Digital Monsters, or Digimon, creatures of the electronic world who can transform themselves into more advanced beings at will. However, while the children have been befriended by good Digimon, there are also evil Digimon, and a ruthless Internet Digimon is ravenously swallowing up communications data from around the world. The Internet Digimon has the potential to take over worldwide communications -- including military weapons-launch technology -- if the good Digimon and their human friends cannot stop its schemes. Digimon: The Movie was adapted from two shorter Japanese films using the Digimon characters, and was prepared for U.S. release by the same team who Americanized the original Japanese anime series Dejimon Adobencha. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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PG, 1 hr. 22 min.

Directed by: Mamoru Hosada, Shigeyasu Yamauchi, Bob Buchholz

Release Date: October 6, 2000

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DVD Release Date: February 6, 2001

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  • November 13, 2010
    For those who grew up in the 90's you were either all about the Pokemon or Digimon. Digimon, the more complicated and highly evolved form of digital monsters kept many entertained, and this darker movie adaptation was not only greatly anticipated and loved, but just a plain win. ... read moreGood to watch if you want to stroll down memory lane.
  • September 27, 2010
    though most adults on this whole website may not fully appreciate the movie its crazy plot off the wall violence and wierd creatures but remember it is a movie based on an anime kids show which i grew up with may i add, This show was the best show of the 90s and 2000s for all kid... read mores alongside pokemon but now the show has just gone down the crapper with the 5th series data squad. But the first second and third seasons were great. Digimon adventure is basically the start of the digimon franchise with all the main characters being introduced, the second series digimon adventure 02 takes place right after the first series so think of it as a sequel to the first series because it has all the same characters plus a few new ones in it all grown up. So as you could have imagined the show was a huge hit so it spawned a movie and when the movie came out it was one of the most anticipated anime films to come out at the time second next to pokemon the first movie mewtwo vs mew, but instead of a double feature you got a triple feature with this movie (quadruple feature if you count the short film). It starts out with a short angela anaconda short film to prove that fox still had life back then and then it starts out but its kind of like a prequel to the first series of digimon since it starts out with Tai and Kari when they are very little and they meet koromon who starts out as botamon. It basically follows the format where the children find a monster or something and they try to keep it a secret kind of like the iron giant and E.T. But then It gets bigger and turns into a monster escapes goes on a rampage then a digi-egg appears in the sky and out comes parrotmon where agumon digivolves into greymon and f*cking annihilates parrotmon with his nova flame but then he disappears. How could you get more epic than a film like that starting out. But then it goes into an even more epic story about Tai and Izzy finding a digimon nesting into a computer as a virus it gets stronger and stronger so they decide to send in agumon and tentomon to stop the data stealing digimon by digivolving into their champion forms, but they are no match because it skips digivolution from champion to ultimate. It basically destroys them in battle not physically but almost. If you want to see the whole thing i dont want to ruin the plot but its definetly a wonderful and awe inspiring action anime film if your a fan of the series or not your going to love it
  • October 18, 2006
    pretty good..
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    September 14, 2011
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    It is better than Pokemon. Slightly better.
  • November 30, 2007
    It's a pretty great movie. I love the original version of the clips in this movie. I suggest you watch the Japanese version. You will see no corny catch phrases added and names and terms altered in the American version.
  • March 17, 2011
    A big let down, season 1 was better. I can not stand the fact that they changed the originial childern.
  • March 15, 2010
    (2.4/5) A hodgepodge edit of three Digimon OVAs. The Americanized soundtrack and Angela Anaconda intro are horrible additions. I like several of the Digimon, but the focus here is much more on the children. The stories are rubbish. The slightly angular art style gives a more matu... read morere feel but has a stark lack of detail. The action scenes never reach any memorable highs, and are often bloated with cheesy visual filters. This film is barely entertaining, except for the welcome crotch shot of Veemon when he does the V-headbutt. Instead of subjecting yourself to this, track down subbed versions of the Japanese OVAs, or better yet, just watch the television series instead.
  • June 26, 2009
    Similar to Poke'mon - though somehow slightly more fun.
    Although I liked the very first season the best, this was still nice to see.
    It had Gatomon so I liked it :P
  • May 16, 2009
    yesss...i don't care if you hate it. i don't care if it's not the greatest movie. i'll sit down and watch this whole stupid thing.
  • January 26, 2009
    Watched it in Castellano (spanish from spain) and knew it by memory!
    I probably still do! Somewhere deep inside my head... I have so much useless knowledge in there.. lol

Critic Reviews


Peter Stack
January 1, 2000
Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle

The film has an unrelenting staccato quality. Some would say a jackhammer quality. Full Review

Nancy Churnin
January 1, 2000
Nancy Churnin, Dallas Morning News

The animation itself isn't anything special -- not that the target audience cares much about that. But the message is sweet and empowering. Full Review

Malcolm Ritter
January 1, 2000
Malcolm Ritter, Associated Press

[Parents] may be peering at their watches and sympathizing with the Digimon who wails, 'What do we have to do to stop this fighting?' Full Review

Stephen Hunter
January 1, 2000
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post

I'm not nuts about shooting hyperactive boys up with Ritalin, but Digimon: The Movie could use about 2,000 cc's of the stuff, injected straight into the projector. Full Review

Susan Stark
January 1, 2000
Susan Stark, Detroit News

As noisy, chaotic, cheesy and crassly commercial a product as has ever been put on the big screen. Full Review

Cody Clark
January 1, 2000
Cody Clark, Mr. Showbiz

Not that I'm encouraging you to see the movie, you understand -- especially not when you could, for example, alternatively spend the evening tweezing your eyebrows with chopsticks.

Bruce Westbrook
January 1, 2000
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle

Can be surprisingly smart and lively in its early going, thanks to some cheeky, well-written humor, a genuine sense of excitement and topical ties to the Internet. Full Review

Loren King
January 1, 2000
Loren King, Boston Globe

What is particularly unappealing and troublesome about the feature is that it is a video game barely disguised as a movie.

John Monaghan
January 1, 2000
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press

Still just another excuse to sell trading cards and video games to your unsuspecting offspring.

Lawrence Van Gelder
January 1, 2000
Lawrence Van Gelder, New York Times

If there is any taste left in the world, the buck may very well stop here. Full Review

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Facts


  • The Lopmon and Terriermon featured on the cover and poster art were drawn incredibly incorrectly. Some errors include wrong colorings, swapped markings, a wrong number of horns and incorrect shading.
  • New Monsters. New Battles. Now on the Big Screen.

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