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Digimon: The Movie

2000 · 89 min

A fast, patchwork cartoon adventure that races through monster battles and internet chaos with earnest kid-hero energy.

Directed by: Shigeyasu Yamauchi, Mamoru Hosoda
Genres: Fantasy, Animation, Science fiction
Starring: Lara Jill Miller, Joshua Seth, Bob Papenbrook

Tagline: New monsters. New battles. Now on the big screen.
Overview: When a powerful new Internet Digimon hatches and begins to consume data at an alarming rate, the Digidestined - kids chosen to save the digital world - must put an end to the destruction before the damage becomes irreversible and worldwide communication halts forever. As computer-based missiles are launched, and a wayward Digimon kidnaps the Digidestined, only the combined efforts of a worldwide network of kids and a new group of "Digidestined" can rescue the others and stop global disaster.

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Directed by: Shigeyasu Yamauchi, Mamoru Hosoda
Genres: Fantasy, Animation, Science fiction
Starring: Lara Jill Miller, Joshua Seth, Bob Papenbrook

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Tone: earneststrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: friendship
technology
survival
found family
coming-of-age
Places: big city
small town
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: family
Form: animated
ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none

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Action	7
Horror	2
Humour	4
Realism	2
Romance	1
Tension	6
Darkness	3
Complexity	3
Emotional weight	4

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Genres: fantasy, animation, science fiction, family
Directed by: Shigeyasu Yamauchi, Mamoru Hosoda
Written by: Bob Buchholz, Jeff Nimoy
Starring: Lara Jill Miller, Joshua Seth, Bob Papenbrook, David Lodge, Dorothy Elias-Fahn, Michael Sorich, Peggy O'Neal, Colleen O'Shaughnessey
Music: Amotz Plessner, Udi Harpaz
Cinematography: Shigeru Ando
Runtime: 89 min
Country: Japan, United States of America
Languages: English

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