Digimon: Digital Monsters
Metascore
20 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 17 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 17
  3. Negative: 15 out of 17
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  1. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Russell Smith
    50
    Shoddy, brainless, pre-sold kids' entertainment.
  2. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    40
    A hyperactive hodgepodge.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    38
    After the monster is subdued, then there's a much less humorous, and more mindlessly violent second half.
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  4. Charlotte Observer
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Toppman
    38
    A frenzied, cacophonic cartoon.
  5. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Cody Clark
    35
    None of the movie's abundant humor is better than faintly amusing.
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  6. TNT RoughCut
    Reviewed by: Darrius Pelissier
    35
    If you give it half a chance, it will entertain you.
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  7. Variety
    Reviewed by: Robert Koehler
    30
    Voice work is weirdly awful and funny at the same time.
  8. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Peter Stack
    25
    Has an unrelenting staccato quality. Some would say a jackhammer quality.
  9. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Loren King
    25
    A video game barely disguised as a movie. Violent, and the monsters are scary for younger children.
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  10. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
    25
    Stay away from this movie. Brainless cartoonish violence.
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  11. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Bruce Fretts
    25
    Aa shockingly chintzy spin-off of Fox's post ''Pokémon'' cartoon hit.
  12. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: John Anderson
    20
    It's an awfully confusing journey, unless you're of pro-Digi-ous intelligence. Or a digimaniac. Or just 6.
  13. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Van Gelder
    20
    Comes off as noisy and ill conceived, long on morphing monsters, short on storytelling talent and uneven in its efforts at animation.
  14. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Nicole Campos
    10
    Crude animation, shrill voicework.
  15. Film.com
    Reviewed by: John Hartl
    10
    The audience for Digimon is small children.
  16. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Sean Means
    10
    An assault on brain cells.
  17. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Stephen Hunter
    10
    So twitchy, fidgety, skittery and wiggly that the drug it made me yearn for was Dramamine, followed by a chaser of bourbon, 12 years old.

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User Score
7.5 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 63 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 32
  3. Negative: 7 out of 32
  1. JoshW.
    10
    How can this movie be rated by ADULTS? this is a kids movie and it should be rated by kids. When I was a kid, I loved this movie to death. and the nostalgia keeps me loving it. Seriously, if adults are rating kids movies, then what's the point?… Full Review »
  2. TK
    10
    The movie is pretty lame; but I'm voting for the series really. It's amazing. Can't choose between it and Pokémon. The critics that voted are idiots. Bet they top rate all that pixar nonsense as well. Lame a**s American animation films should go die.… Full Review »
  3. LoganS
    10
    Yeah, the first and last third of the movie were not very good, but the part on the internet was so epic and awesome, that even now, at 17, I still get goosebumps whenever I see it.… Full Review »
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