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Digimon: The Movie
20th Century Fox

Digimon: The Movie reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 20 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
7.6 out of 10
based on 17 reviews
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MPAA RATING: PG for action violence

Starring Joshua Seth, and Mona Marshall

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)


GENRE(S): Animation  
WRITTEN BY: Jeff Nimoy (adaptation)
Bob Buchholz (adaptation)
 
DIRECTED BY: Mamoru Hosoda
Minoru Hosoda
Shigeyasu Yamauchi
 
RELEASE DATE: DVD: February 6, 2001 
Video: February 6, 2001 
Theatrical: October 6, 2000 
RUNNING TIME: 82 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: Japan / USA 

What The Critics Said

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50
Austin Chronicle Russell Smith
Shoddy, brainless, pre-sold kids' entertainment.
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40
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
A hyperactive hodgepodge.
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38
New York Post Lou Lumenick
After the monster is subdued, then there's a much less humorous, and more mindlessly violent second half.
38
Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
A frenzied, cacophonic cartoon.
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35
Mr. Showbiz Cody Clark
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 Robert Koehler
Voice work is weirdly awful and funny at the same time.
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25
Entertainment Weekly Bruce Fretts
Aa shockingly chintzy spin-off of Fox's post ''Pokémon'' cartoon hit.
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25
San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack
Has an unrelenting staccato quality. Some would say a jackhammer quality.
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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 Lawrence Van Gelder
Comes off as noisy and ill conceived, long on morphing monsters, short on storytelling talent and uneven in its efforts at animation.
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20
Los Angeles Times John Anderson
It's an awfully confusing journey, unless you're of pro-Digi-ous intelligence. Or a digimaniac. Or just 6.
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10
Film.com Sean Means
An assault on brain cells.
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10
LA Weekly Nicole Campos
Crude animation, shrill voicework.
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10
Film.com John Hartl
The audience for Digimon is small children.
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10
Washington Post Stephen Hunter
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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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 7.6 (out of 10) based on 38 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Emanuel D. gave it an8:
I think "digimon the movie" is one of the bests movies i have never saw, because there are cool digimons like: diaboromon and rapidmon (gold version) but the other digimon are cool too. Congratulations to japanish people, they know do very well the animes. Bye bye.

Tyler G. gave it a10:
This movie is the best movie i never seen for kids movie and it look so cool i wish i was in it so i could be in the action.

Eddy F. gave it a10:
Oustanding. But you will only understand it if you watch digimon. I can certainly see why the mivie would be terrible if you hadn't seen digmon before; it merges the first season of episodes to the second.

matthew B. gave it a10:
It's amazing! I have never seen a digimon movie so incredible as that.

Sam gave it a2:
Awful film. I want to die. it sucks badly. Lame characters were the only thing that were holding back Pokemon movies (except for Brock) from being great, there's a lot more holding this one back. Lame characters, lame visuals, lame plot, and lame "action". Die.

catherine a. gave it a10:
It was Awsome!!!! I'll give it a 1000.

Ryan T. gave it a9:
As per before, only fans of the series can get it. The original Japanese movies actually befitted the series well - but, this is a case where blending the first three movies together proved unsuccesful. Had each movie been released individually as a TV special or such, it might have been better recieved.

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