Production Companies Fox Family Films, Fox Kids Europe Properties, Fox Kids International Programming, Fox Kids Network, Saban Entertainment, Toei Company
Studio 20th Century Fox Kids, Saban Entertainment, Toei Animation
Digimon the TV series has spawned a full-length theatrical film, in a similar vain to the Pokémon craze. The two phenomena are similar: kids collect monsters and go on adventures. While Pokémon has a sense of odyssey and a wisp of a moral, Digimon is flat-out rough-and-tumble adventure. Can an adult figure out the digi-details of the digi-world? Here's a digi-shot: the world is full of evolving monsters that live and fight in their own way. The digi-world and real world can intermix, and one of the portals is the Internet. Children sit at their laptops and fight with their digi-monsters in an abstract environment that looks like something from Tron but with none of the cool. The first 50 minutes is a flashback story that took place eight years earlier. So everyone has now grown up (as the time frame leaps over all the original Digimon TV shows), and Digimon and humans interact on Earth. A bad digi-virus is bent on revenge, and it will take more than a laptop to defend the planet. That said, if the end of the world ever looms, a golden digi-egg will be a good thing to have. (Ages 6 to 12) --Doug Thomas, Amazon.com
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