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Digimon - The Movie (1999)

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Average Rating: 3.9/10
Reviews Counted: 40
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 30

Digimon is better than Pokemon, but it's still a predictable movie with mediocre animation.

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Average Rating: 3.6/10
Critic Reviews: 16
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 13

Digimon is better than Pokemon, but it's still a predictable movie with mediocre animation.

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Average Rating: 3.2/5
User Ratings: 19,324

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Movie Info

While some children spend their summer vacation playing ball or going to the beach, seven kids use their free time to help save the world in this feature-length animated adventure adapted from the popular television series. While attending summer camp, a group of kids playing with computers are transported into a digital universe, where they make friends with the Digital Monsters, or Digimon, creatures of the electronic world who can transform themselves into more advanced beings at will.

Feb 6, 2001

$9.0M

20th Century Fox

All Critics (53) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (30) | DVD (5)

The film has an unrelenting staccato quality. Some would say a jackhammer quality.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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If there is any taste left in the world, the buck may very well stop here.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
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The animation itself isn't anything special -- not that the target audience cares much about that. But the message is sweet and empowering.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | Comment
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Parents, if you don't want to compete with popular culture to raise your child ... this is where you draw the line in the sand.

January 1, 2000 Comment
Film.com
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With its migraine-inducing laser showdowns and puerile gags ... Digimon almost makes you nostalgic for the relative sophistication of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comment
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Not that I'm encouraging you to see the movie, you understand -- especially not when you could, for example, alternatively spend the evening tweezing your eyebrows with chopsticks.

January 1, 2000 Comment
Mr. Showbiz
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If you love Digimon, here's more. No surprises.

January 2, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

The film's animation is second rate with dull colors and fuzzy drawing. Neither this, nor the lackluster music, can compensate for the story's confusion.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Internet Reviews | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Digimon - The Movie

For those who grew up in the 90's you were either all about the Pokemon or Digimon. Digimon, the more complicated and highly evolved form of digital monsters kept many entertained, and this darker movie adaptation was not only greatly anticipated and loved, but just a plain win. Good to watch if you want to stroll down

October 20, 2010
FrizzDrop

Super Reviewer

though most adults on this whole website may not fully appreciate the movie its crazy plot off the wall violence and wierd creatures but remember it is a movie based on an anime kids show which i grew up with may i add, This show was the best show of the 90s and 2000s for all kids alongside pokemon but now the show has

September 27, 2010
michael e.
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