Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16534 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-06-30
• Rating: Universal, suitable for all
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Animated, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Arabic
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 81 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Digimon the TV series has spawned a full-length theatrical film, in a similar vain to the Pokémon craze. The two phenomena are similar: kids collect monsters and go on adventures. While Pokémon has a sense of odyssey and a wisp of a moral, Digimon is flat-out rough-and-tumble adventure. Can an adult figure out the digi-details of the digi-world? Here's a digi-shot: the world is full of evolving monsters that live and fight in their own way. The digi-world and real world can intermix, and one of the portals is the Internet. Children sit at their laptops and fight with their digi-monsters in an abstract environment that looks like something from Tron but with none of the cool. The first 50 minutes is a flashback story that took place eight years earlier. So everyone has now grown up (as the time frame leaps over all the original Digimon TV shows), and Digimon and humans interact on Earth. A bad digi-virus is bent on revenge, and it will take more than a laptop to defend the planet. That said, if the end of the world ever looms, a golden digi-egg will be a good thing to have. (Ages 6 to 12) --Doug Thomas, Amazon.com

Special Features
16:9 Wide Screen
English
Region 2

Synopsis
Digital monsters--Digimon--that befriend humans are the subject of this three-segment animated film. In the first segment, a cute creature is hatched from a large egg that emerges from a computer and surprises its young owners by morphing into a spectacular creature. Segment two finds the owners, or the Digidestined, in a race to save the world when an evil Digimon morphs and takes over the Internet and telephone lines, eats the data pertinent to major cities, and even infiltrates the United States' nuclear weapons system. The Digidestined and their respective Digimon--who can change shape and morph into fantastic creatures capable of great speed and destruction--must determine the best way to defeat this killer virus. Part three finds the Digidestined working together again to defeat a virus that has turned a Digimon to the dark side. Ultimately, DIGIMON: THE MOVIE, which is based on the popular Anime television show, promotes teamwork and reminds children that they can make a difference in the world. The contemporary soundtrack is an added bonus, featuring Barenaked Ladies, Smashmouth, Fatboy Slim, Len, and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones.

Customer Reviews

I could not disagree with Doug Thomas
Firstly before Istart my review i'd like to point out that Digimon is not similar to Pokemon and you should really do more research before making such a claim. Kids do not collect monsters in Digimon and they never try to go out adventuring in the same way as Pokemon, in Digimonthey are doing it to save the world.

I'd also like to correct you on your Digi-short and explain it in a much more informed way:

Digimon are creatures made from computer data that inhabit a world parrallel to our own, the Digital World. Special children are chosen (about twelve in total) to have their own Digimon so they can fight evil and save the world.

In the film (the main "middle film") someone has tried to create a Digimon on their PC but it was infected by a virus and let lose on the internet. The children you see with their Digimon on the internet (their are four of them) are Digi-Destined, chosen children whom are some of few that get tgeir own Digimon. In the film they are "uploaded" to the internet from the "Digital World" so they could fight this evil creature eating the internet. The "abstract enviroment" is actually the artists impression of being "inside" the internet.

All in all this film does entertain you, is humoures and has a good soundtrack throughout. I would recommend this to any Digimon or Anime fan, anyone against "mon's" should stay away.

Loud, Colourful, Digital Fun!
This movie certainly won't be to everyones taste, and it helps to have a bit of knowledge about the Digimon background (From the T.V series 1 and 2)if you're to understand any of it. But, for a hard core fan, and certainly anyone new who's into colourful anmie fun - with a cool soundtrack - this is a must see.

The movie does try to act as a stand alone film in its own right, with a feeble, if not graphic and exciting explanation of what Digimon are at the beginning. The story then progresses 4 years into the realms of series 1 and the beginnings of a plot. It seems simple at first, but get into the movie and watch it again and the little twists and hints will surprise you.

So, a evil Digimon is bred on the internet, and begins a nonstop data meal with the whole world wide web as a buffet. Its up to Tai and Izzy to save the day with their digimon pals Agumon and Tentomon to save the day...digievolution and fighting ensues of course. With the help of the other digidestined the internet evil is overcome just in time to save the world from ultimate disaster - phew - or is it.

A terrible legacy is left for the present digidestined team to clean up,with the help of a new friend! Will they finally defeat the evil virus, and restore digi-peace? Loud, powerful and new characters appear, and the ultimate digibattle ensues. Looks like the digidestined are done for without the power of the golden digieggs!

Kids, and big kids (like me) will love it. The music is addictive. The plot a little thin. Peppered with little spots of satire and dry humour, and lashings of morals, this is a film with wide appeal.

Parents with a anti-voilence or anti 'MON disposition steer clear. This is one for the young, and the young at heart.

a good film that kept my interest all the way though
this film is ok.it has all the same people in it as in the tv series.it has a good story to it which is easy enough to follow(seen as i am only eight years old).and i enjoyed it a lot and so did my brother(aged five).