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Digimon: The Movie

2000, Movie, PG, 74 mins

Digimon: The Movie: Review

DIGIMON: THE MOVIE
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Like the pokemon, the Japanese digimon (digital monsters) are adorable critters that evolve into battle-ready beasts that are controlled by little children. It's a shame that the digimon are generally perceived as pokemon knockoffs, because the "digidestined" — youngsters fated to enter a parallel digital world and bond with the digimon to save the world from destruction — have fairly well-developed personalities and relationships with each other and their digi-friends. But this picture is such a hyperactive hodgepodge that it's hard to tell, mostly because it's cobbled together from three short Japanese movies. Digimon Adventure (which preceded the popular TV series that airs on Fox Family) provides a prologue describing the first encounter between two of the digidestined, Tai and his baby sister, Kari, and their digimon. Our War Game forms the bulk of the plot: An older Tai and Kari, along with computer-whiz friend Izzy and brothers Matt and TK, must stop Diabormon, a digimon/computer-virus hybrid, from destroying the Internet. And The Golden Digimentals adds an intersecting story involving Wallace, a kid from Colorado who's got twin digimon, one of which gets infected by the Diabormon virus and mutates into a scary gargoyle. Some of the movie's animation is quite attractive, and it can be clever — witness the blobby, mutant Inframon gobbling data like a ravenous pac-man ("How can we stop him from eating the internet out of house and homepage?" wails Izzy). Inframon evolves into the self-replicating Diabormon, whom Izzy bombards with e-mail ("You've got mail!" the computer screen chirps in triumph) that slows his operating system long enough for the good digimon to kick his hybrid ass. Kids who follow the series will probably have no trouble dealing with the time-hopping continuity and hastily established character relationships; parents will almost certainly be baffled and come away feeling a little headachey. The movie is preceded by an Angela Anaconda short (another Fox Family show) in which Angela and her friends go to see the digimon movie. leave a comment --Maitland McDonagh
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