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I know Applimon is kinda disappointing, but at least it's not hot garbage like each new Tri "movie". A 20-ish episode story chopped into 6 movies then chopped again into 20-ish minute episodes by some retard at Crunchyroll and it lacks all the pacing and structure necessary to make this project work, as expected.
Let's write a long rambly post about how the 4th installment is equally shit as the other 3.
At this point, if you haven't seen the Tri movies, and are a fan of Digimon, don't watch them. It's not worth the agony of these poorly structured, lazily executed, slowly paced, horribly directed messes ... that try to pull off a large story...separated into parts divided by months at a time.
And there's 2 more left.
I'll go by the 4 part "edit" that Crunchyroll put the 4th movie in to divide up my thoughts. I don't care about spoiling it, I'm basically saving you 2 hours of pain and suffering. If I get anything incorrect as far as the plot goes, I don't care. I'm just going off of memory.
Part 1: Recap the last scenes of the third movie, that shouldn't have been in the third movie. Completely reset the characters of the Digimon, which is fair enough, except now Yoko/Biyomon is a cunt, because it's her turn to get a mega (it's also Patomon's turn, but he got screentime in the third movie, so don't worry about it now) and that means she needs a character arc. If you're wondering how Biyomon being a cunt plays into the larger story, don't worry, there's no larger story, so there's nothing to play into. Plod around for 20 minutes, not much happens. For an episode of a TV, it's bare minimum, for the first act of a movie, it's unbearably slow.
Part 2: Recap the last scene of the first part, great editing, Crunchyroll. Pro tip, don't do this consistently, looks really professionally and definitely doesn't make the first time you do it look retarded /sarcasm. Machindramon was in the show, so when he randomly shows up here, it won't be jarring at all /sarcasm. It also brings up a plot hole...
If that one bitch wanted to reset the Digital World to get back her partner digimon (sacrificed to seal away the Dark Masters before the events of 01) why did she reset the Digital World to a point in time AFTER the Dark Masters were sealed away? Meicoomon broke Machindramon's seal and he berserked around for a bit, so that logically means her digimon is still gone.
Then Machindramon lazer borks all the digi-dorks who get saved by portals and split up, a la the part of 01 when they got split up after Devimon.
Part 3: Portal plot-convenient bullshit has our protags split up, and Sora with Biyomon conveniently find Meiko. Don't forget that Biyomon is still unreasonably, and unexplained-ly a cunt to Sora. Not much development on that front. I'm not sure if this is a plot hole, but...
Izzy shows Agumon and Gomamon pictures of all of them prior to the reset, which he should've done BEFORE Machindramon even shows up because that really fucking validates the humans' story that the digimon were their friends before. Like, it could even make Biyomon less cunt-ish, because there's this proof that they were all partners. Izzy was on his laptop the whole time too, so...what the fuuuuuuuuuck?
Meicoomon eventually shows up or something, I really couldn't care. Meiko and Meicoomon really wear down my patience. She and Meiko have a spat until Meicoomon manages to fuck more shit up when Dark Gennai shows up to reveal the underlying plot.
Dark Gennai wanted that one bitch to reset the Digital World to help him take control of it and probably the real world too, this requires Meikoomon who's some accumulation of anomalies that corrupts the data in the Digital World, originally making digimon who get infected go wild, but now seems to be the key for Dark Gennai to do evil shit. He's gotten control of Machindramon and Megaseadramon, and was the one pretending to be the Digimon Emperor. That only served to misdirect the audience, as the digi-dorks didn't seem to care that one time they saw it in the first or second movie.
Part 4: They all regroup when a portal shows Machinedramon about to blast Sora and Meiko...OH, that reminds me.
Dark Gennai licks Sora on the face for some reason. Like, sensually licks her cheek. It's weird, unnecessary, gross, and totally uncalled for. It doesn't even seem like Dark Gennai is pervy, it just seems like the writers thought this is what an "adult" antagonist would do.
Put simply, it's shitty and awkward.
Agumon and Gabumon deflect a fucking mega's attack like it ain't no shit. Not a plot hole, but pretty inconsistent. I'm honestly tired of recapping at this point, because fuck all happens. It's all pointless, and the last half of the fourth part pads everything with long digivolution animations...even though it skipped Agumon and Gabumon's warp digivolution animations. Like I said, Biyomon and Patomon get their turns at mega. Biyomon after accepting Sora as a partner, quite unrealistically and without much fanfare. And Patomon...because I guess he needs one too. I'm not kidding when I say there's no build up to it. It just happens, and pads out the whole thing with Patomon's entire digivolution line animations.
And then the motherfucker ends in the middle of goddamm scene, in a pathetic attempt at a cliffhanger.
- Conclusion -
These movies are painful, tone deaf, padded out, and insulting to anyone who genuinely enjoyed and appreciates Digimon Adventures. In a pandering attempt to appeal to adult fans of this 20 year old series, some retards took a few decent ideas and ruined it all by making movies, by not properly re-introducing these characters, and by making lazy decisions to drag this shambling plot along to the finish line of hollow promises and wasted potential.
It would be an interesting idea to see the digimon "reset" and these more mature Digi-destined deal with it. It would be cool to finally see the mega digivolutions. It would be great for more mature story beats to be tackled by a Digimon series. But unfortunately, these ideas are beaten into submission by bad direction, piss poor writing, misguided production and planning, and a fanbase that seems all too willing to eat this shit wholesale without a shred of critical thought.