 Alright here we go. Digimon review. Take one. Hey guys, Jeremy here. I have a friend, Emilio here. Hey. Emilio and I worked together a long time ago. Way back. Way, way back. And I don't even remember when this conversation started, but probably a year ago. I was like, I want to make a video or you, I think you approached me. You're like, we should make a video together. Yeah, because you were just started doing your, uh, what was it called? Discover Anime. Discover Anime series, which by the way, you guys should definitely check out. I'm going to give links to Emilio's stuff in this video in the description at the end too. He was talking about that and I think you even said like, what's your favorite movie? I was like, well, I didn't really like it. I've never been a fan too much of anime, but I guess my anime movie would be Digimon the movie. It counts. And then we just got on this really, this little chat. This is nostalgic going down memory lane. So finally, a year later, we finally watched it. Our schedules matched up. The last time I saw this movie was about five years ago. And you said about two years ago. I think it was like two years ago, something like that. I remember watching this movie in theaters with my brother and my dad back in 2000. And I give my dad credit because this movie must have been just absolutely bizarre for any adult who took their kid to this. Yeah. There's talking about like going to see a kid movie that literally is for kids. This, this was it. This was, and this wasn't even for kids. This was only for people who knew the show intimately. Oh, absolutely. You couldn't just have watched a few episodes. You had to know. You had to know season one and two through and through. It's split up into three different stories. The first is basically a recreation of the nightmare sort of thing from the first episode. And then the second one, the second story is the kind of the one that was really heavily publicized, the battle for the internet. And then the third one is one that includes some of the characters from the second season and this weird Kokomon grunge bunny virus thing. And he's back. He's back to get Willis. Yes. Things that I have heard is that the transition from this movie from the original Japan release over to the American release, this movie was heavily edited. And if anything, if I had my VHS right now, I'd show you that the VHS actually has a synopsis about someone being kidnapped or captured on it. That never happens. And I think it was you telling me that had me watching this movie differently than I had before. I mean, the last time I checked it out, I was just kind of like watching it completely with nostalgia goggles, which is great because it is a fun time and they drop a bunch of 90s hits that really brings you back and just the most cringiest of jokes. Oh, yeah. Nonstop. There's a lot of jokes that are in this that like got that. The best one. I think the best one is the operator. Oh, yeah. All lines are still busy. Did you hear me? What? The lines are still busy. That's actually a funny joke. It definitely hit for sure. The animation when it's not absolute garbage is actually pretty good. But the thing is it is so sporadic and it goes from good to me to shit. You can tell where they were saving their money and which shots they were doing. Yeah, this thing definitely. Well, it was even worked on by a pretty renowned animator at the time. I don't remember his name. Definitely a few shots in there that were fucking amazing. Like as we were watching like the internet, the internet climax when Ty and them come into the internet somehow, Ty and Matt don't have outlines, which is nuts. And they change styles a few different times in the movie. Not at any given point, but they kind of switched it up the entire way through almost. Which gives it kind of an interesting feeling. Especially when they're in the internet, everything has a orange outline. Yeah. Which was kind of strange. That's something you don't usually see. It's like, I admit the internet one is obviously the much more entertaining story. Yeah. I like the Kokomon story and concept. It's a goddamn mess. Because even the ending is like, you can tell it's been just chop edited to shit. Just the mystery with it. It's like, there's something here that was probably really Japanese. Yeah. But it'd be kind of cool. Maybe if we knew what the hell was going on, but four kids and Fox kids, they censored the shit out of this movie. Oh, absolutely. And that's not uncommon for most anime of the time, given like Dragon Ball Z. Dragon Ball Z got edited heavily, especially with blood and swearing and that kind of stuff. Which I mean, it makes sense because it resonated with a much younger audience in North America. The Yu-Gi-Oh! Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon, these were all like heavily edited, either because of different tropes from Japan that we just simply wouldn't understand in North America, just culturally. Or there's some like maybe one or maybe a few actual concerns here and there. Otherwise, literally just the dumbest shit to censor. Yeah. I remember the ending of the second one. There's a line about, I'm going to eat all your pizza. And that was the choice. And Clancy Brown voiced him too. Clancy Brown fricking the bad guy from Highlander. Oh, really? He was the voice of Vampire Mon. Oh my god. As for the movie, I still enjoy it in terms of a nostalgia ride. I would not recommend anyone watching this though, unless you had seen the show. Yeah, it's definitely more of a nostalgic romp back in time. Some people will say movies like The Goonies or what's other like The Little Rascals are kind of like those are nostalgic trips. You see, those movies are competent movies. They could stand alone for sure. Yeah, they have a formula. This movie does not. Remember Ark of Night? They did that anime where it was seven different stories and one Blu-ray, one anime DVD, seven different animators and whatnot. This is almost the same kind of thing. It's three different stories put together. They have no connection. Yeah, no. They're trying to shoehorn this Willis kid in here. Yeah, it's the only through line through all three of the stories. Yeah, that's right. I think it was an interesting concept to kind of attack it like that, which you know the editors just like, oh, they're like, how is this going to flow? This doesn't work at all. And there was definitely some cool stuff animation wise, like we said already. And like it did have a stylistic feel through the entire thing. It was better than the, well the animation was an upgrade sometimes from the television show. Like the television show was very stock. Yeah, however, plot wise it was a little rough. Yeah, it's really, really rough. So if you were to rate this out of seven, what would you give it? Well, I'm a little torn between a four and a five on this, honestly. Oh, really? Yeah. It's not, I mean, I think that's what's going on. Yeah, that's admittedly it's a hard thing for me. Yeah, so I'd have to honestly give it like a light four. A light four. Yeah. I couldn't understand that. For me, as if I was an actual, like reviewing this on the film's basis, it's like a two. Yeah. It's a two. But me personally, I still enjoy this movie, even though I shouldn't. I'd give it a three right now, because I really like the internet part. When I was a kid, I would even skip the beginning and I wouldn't stop after the end of the internet story. I wouldn't bother to watch the Willis part. Oh, yeah. That's and yeah. So I watch a third of the film. So give it a three. Plus those are the characters you like, you know, and like, of course, everyone grew up with season one. Yeah, that was a problem too. It's like, they were using Davis. It was a terrible character. The three of them. The characters after the first season are just forgettable and almost indistinguishable, if it was written on paper. I cannot describe those three. Yeah. Like, possibly with the one kid who had the Armadillo thing, like he was a possible future sociopath. Yeah, it might be. He just had no emotion. He was just, he was, I don't know, token stock character number three. Could have been a poor anime. But yeah, no. I wonder what the inside of Armadillo Man looks like. Anyways, that was really fun. It was really cool to watch this again. And again, if you guys want to watch some pretty fun streaming stuff, definitely check out Emilio's stuff. I'm hoping to try and get on with, we were going to try it today, but there was a bit of technical issues. But he just did a recent run through with the first Lord of the Rings game. It was this fucking terrible game. But it's a really funny video series. You should check it out. And again, check out his, his Twitch senescence. Yeah, my Senescence on Twitch and Senescence plays on YouTube. We do lots of gaming stuff, but we also try and mix it up here and do different stuff with it. So. And again, hopefully I'll get to be on for two towers when we can get that to work. Yeah, man. Absolutely. Yeah. If you guys want to check it out, we did do a live stream of us watching the movie. We couldn't put it in the background. Otherwise, Emilio would get kicked off Twitch. Yeah. But the reaction video is up on my channel. Yeah. And it'll, it'll have interspersed little clips of it. Yeah, he's gonna put it together. But within legal limits of fair use. Yeah, that's the problem. Which is always fun to do on YouTube. Oh yeah. Yeah. That's never fun. Anyways, guys, thank you for watching this video. Hope you enjoyed it. And again, Emilio, thank you for being involved. This is great. And hopefully we get to do, wait, actually, I don't know. Hopefully. I don't really know any other animus. Oh, that's, that's the point of discovery anime. I don't know any of that. Do you ever seen Batman Ninja? Batman Ninja? No, but I'm intrigued. Oh, well, maybe that's it. That's it. That's a plug. I'm excited. We'll see you guys later. All right. Bye.