Digimon Adventure 02 Movies

Consensus: 7/10
This was very interesting. I started this a while back and didn’t really get into it. Coming back to this I had a good time. I actually enjoyed the slower pace and the unique musical choices were very charming. Not to mention the art direction and animation were very satisfying.

***Breakdown below***

Dialogue / Script ❌:

Story / Plot ✅: This film has the most interesting narrative out of the digimon films I've seen at this point. It is a nice change of pace having such a small-scale story as well.

Score ✅: The soundtrack by Takanori Arisawa creates a mysterious atmosphere which is accurately reflected when the ... majority of the cast are baffled by the bizarre events occurring around them. This sense of dissonance continues throughout the film to its benefit in my opinion.

Characters ❌:

Art / Design / Visuals ✅: I honestly love this movie visually. There are several shots early on in the film depicting New York city as this massive sprawling area where the cast wandered around. Something else of note is the lack of people within many of the scenes. This being coupled with the soundtrack creates the feeling of being in a ghost town of sorts.

Pacing ❌:

Performances ✅:

Bonus (Art / Design / Visuals) ✅:

Bonus (Score) ✅: This soundtrack was part of the reason I stuck with this film. I give this soundtrack credit simply due to the radical shift taken with the soundtrack here. It definitely won't work for everyone but I admire it that much more for taking the risk anyways.

Wildcard ✅: Personally this is probably my favorite Digimon movie from the bunch. I was really taken aback by the lowering in energy and stakes. This movie was more of a personal struggle between a few individuals.

Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought the English re-edit of this move as part of Digimon The Movie would have made the content of this movie MORE understandable.

The art design is stellar and the animation top notch. Where this loses me completely are in the music and the story.

Throughout the movie we are treated to a bizarre mix of jazz Noir and very offbeat country music. This isn't a bad thing in concept but in execution. The music never changes to match the feeling or content of the scene. It drones on without a care. It would be a little impressive if ... it wasn't so damaging to the experience. I think the only movie specific song that works is the end credits.

As for the story, I'll just say we never actually get any idea what the root cause of the conflict is in this. In the Digimon Movie, they at least linked it into a computer virus who refused to die, but in this original version we get nothing of the sort. It's clear /something/ was the cause...

The movie plods along at a sleepy pace, and other than Wallace, none of the characters even know where they're going or what they're going to do. It's very strange an unfulfilling, contrasting with now nice it looks. Overall, this is a far cry from Our War Games.

I've watched this movie countless times when I was a child and I had good memories of it cause it was the first time Holydramon was seen in the series and angewomon is my fav digimon so I was really hyped to rewatch the movie!

Well, there are no words in this world that can describe how bored I as watching this movie. The character Wallace is the most boring and annoying guy ever and the music and sound effects are just pathetic. Why the hell would you use elevator music in the main fight scene of the movie? Angewomon finally evolves into Holydramon and gets ... a 5 second airtime before she gets one taped by the most poorly developed virus digimon ever. Can't help but laugh at this ngl xd

I'll give it a 4 just cause I got to see Holydramon :)))