Digimon: The Movie

Digimon: The Movie is an American edited dubbed film that combines the two short films; デジモンアドベンチャー, デジモンアドベンチャー ぼくらのウォーゲーム!, as well as デジモンアドベンチャー02 デジモンハリケーン上陸！！／超絶進化！！黄金のデジメンタル. It was produced by Saban Entertainment and Fox Kids and distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The film had cut more than 40 minutes of scenes from the individual Japanese films to save time and introduced several changes in tone, dialogue, and plot. Owing to the number of changes made, it is considered an original work by the press. Upon release, the film received generally negative reviews from critics. Despite this, the film was a box office success, grossing over $16 million worldwide against a production budget of $5 million.

Dubbing History
After the first two Pokémon films, Fox wanted to replicate its success by producing a theatrical feature for Digimon. Unfortunately, Toei Animation had no feature-length films for Digimon, but instead had animation fairs every spring and summer with featurettes showcasing their current animated titles. The only films produced for Digimon by that time were Digimon Adventure, Digimon Adventure: Our War Game!, and Digimon Adventure 02: Digimon Hurricane Landing!! / Transcendental Evolution!! Golden Digimental, with the first two directed by and the final by.

As the three films were twenty, forty, and sixty minutes long, respectively, their footage was condensed to under eighty five minutes. The third film, Digimon Adventure 02: Hurricane Landing!!, was heavily cut because Saban Entertainment lacked funding to produce a full two-hour movie. Furthermore, "culturally awkward" Japanese elements are removed, and many North American jokes were written into the script.

Jeff Nimoy noted that the first cut of the movie consisted of just the first two films and had plans to release the third film separately as a television movie or direct-to-video, but the idea was overruled. In order to connect the stories of the different movies together, the adapting screenwriters rewrote Digimon Adventure: Our War Game! to include Willis being involved in Diaboromon's creation. Additionally, the subplot of the older DigiDestined being captured by Endigomon was cut out altogether. Originally, Nimoy had Tai narrate the movie, but as Tai did not make an appearance in the third part of the movie, he changed it to Kari instead. The budget of the film production was estimated to be five million dollars.

Uncut Re-Dubs
On July 29 2023, Discotek Media announced on Twitter that they'll re-release Digimon: The Movie in high-definition, with the three original films having uncut English re-dubs, with most of the original voice actors reprising their roles.

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International versions
Note: Although the dubs listed below are of the three original films, they are all based on the Americanized edited version.


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