Metacritic Film

Digimon: The Movie

Starring Joshua Seth, and Mona Marshall

MPAA RATING: PG for action violence

20th Century Fox
Animation
82 minutes | Color
Japan / USA
Released In Theaters October 6, 2000

The Internet becomes a battlefield for the DigiDestined and their Digimon companions, as they embark on their greatest adventure yet in Digimon: The Movie. (Twentieth Century Fox)

WRITTEN BY
Jeff Nimoy (adaptation)
Bob Buchholz (adaptation)

DIRECTED BY
Mamoru Hosoda
Minoru Hosoda
Shigeyasu Yamauchi

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

20 / 100

Critic Reviews

50 Austin Chronicle
Shoddy, brainless, pre-sold kids' entertainment.
40 TV Guide
A hyperactive hodgepodge.
38 New York Post
After the monster is subdued, then there's a much less humorous, and more mindlessly violent second half.
38 Charlotte Observer
A frenzied, cacophonic cartoon.
35 Mr. Showbiz
None of the movie's abundant humor is better than faintly amusing.
35 TNT RoughCut Darrius Pelissier
If you give it half a chance, it will entertain you.
30 Variety
Voice work is weirdly awful and funny at the same time.
25 Entertainment Weekly
Aa shockingly chintzy spin-off of Fox's post ''Pokémon'' cartoon hit.
25 San Francisco Chronicle
Has an unrelenting staccato quality. Some would say a jackhammer quality.
25 Boston Globe Loren King
A video game barely disguised as a movie. Violent, and the monsters are scary for younger children.
25 Baltimore Sun Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
Stay away from this movie. Brainless cartoonish violence.
20 The New York Times
Comes off as noisy and ill conceived, long on morphing monsters, short on storytelling talent and uneven in its efforts at animation.
20 Los Angeles Times
It's an awfully confusing journey, unless you're of pro-Digi-ous intelligence. Or a digimaniac. Or just 6.
10 Film.com
An assault on brain cells.
10 LA Weekly Nicole Campos
Crude animation, shrill voicework.
10 Film.com
The audience for Digimon is small children.
10 Washington Post
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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