Digimon Adventure: Our War Game!
Sweet Jesus this escalated quickly.
The beginning of the film is Tai being in a small argument with his friends Sora over a birthday gift of all things.
(I must be close to an industrial Warehouse cuz I can hear an awful lot of shipping right now.)
And that somehow that turns into a catastrophe involving the Y2K* and a nuclear Armageddon.
It's a surprisingly subtle adventure given everything that's about to happen.
Most of the movie revolves around Taichi and Izzy sitting around a computer.
They have little to no actual interaction with their Digimon (until the end) and there's only really two major scenes of fighting.
Otherwise most of the film is just Tai trying to get in contact with the rest of the digidestined.
Oddly enough it reminds me of ''A Hundred and one Dalmatians''. Another movie that spends a needless amount of time dealing with communication.
Only if I'm to be fair, I think the Digimon film pulls it off a bit better.
As the barking dogs got a little monotonous overtime.
I think it helps having a literal destructive scenario behind it and characters we actually give a damn about.
The whole movie is a scenario of escalation. As this weird little Digimon pops into existence, starts eating copious amounts of data and grows into an even more powerful monster which threatens to completely destroy all forms of digital\electronic communication and possibly blow the major city with the use of intercontinental ballistic missiles.
It kind of got my heart racing. I don't know what it i,s but there's something about Atomic Bombs that absolutely petrified me.
It doesn't matter if it's 'Dr. Strangelove', 'Spies Like Us' or 'War Games'. (There's our inspiration)
It always tends to bother me.
Some of that is just inherent rationalization as we all understand atomic bombs to be the worst possible outcome.
Another aspect of this might be my now out-of-date education. When both schools and the media tried to install a sense of fear within my little child mind to be ever vigilant of atomic devastation.
Then there's the Y2K aspect.
It's comedic now but at the time it was a concern.
My grandparents were gathering copious amounts of groceries and gasoline. All stored in their basement for the inevitable day the clock struck zero.
And I remember actually thinking ''would it really happen''.
Obviously it's ridiculous in hindsight**
Anyways I got super off track.
I have to admit that I really liked this part of the movie too.
I wasn't expecting it to be anywhere as near as good as the first part but this was really captivating.
I love that Izzy was a prime character, the animation style was really bright and fun to watch. Not quite as well detailed as the last one, but still relatively enjoyable.
And it just does what Digimon is known for best.
It presents this giant over the top miraculous story involving battling monsters and technological mishaps. But ultimately boils down to a bunch of simple yet captivating dramas between all the different kids.
Also there's a little tiny Yolei in the movie too. She pops up for only a second. Still a nice little touch all the same.
I could probably write an essay on all the tiny little things I love in this film. Izzy's ridiculous over-the-top pushing of the enter button towards the end or just Tai trying to type but having to do it really slowly as he's not good at it.
Nice to know I have something in common with him.
*It's actually a digimon called Kuramon but let's face it it's a metaphor for Y2K.
It causes all the same computer problems everybody assumed would have happened from that crisis. It even escalates to an idea of launching atomic bombs. Which was this extremely unlikely scenario that some people thought could happen.
**Although it did in some ways technically happen. There were a few minute cases of people's computer data actually being wormped by a mini Y2K problem.
It amounted to a couple library books being overcharged and one guys Blockbuster bill being exaggerated several thousand dollars.
But that was more or less it.
All easy fixies.
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