I was looking forward to this movie, I thought the trailers were just deceiving the viewers when they introduced some of those dumb, blatantly retconning plot-points. But no, the movie is exactly about what the trailers tell you is about.
Without spoiling too much, the overall message of this movie is: People grow up, they can't be clinging to old memories forever, they have responsibilities and they must let go of their childhoods in order to become fully functional adults. Okay, so basically, this whole movie is the producers' way of telling older fans to go away, they are not allowed to enjoy Digimon anymore because they've hit the age limit.
If only that was where the movie's problems ended. There is a gigantic disregard to a certain plot point introduced in Tri that isn't ever addressed or acknowledged, one character from this movie feels recycled straight out of Tri, every single character other than Taichi and Yamato are Demoted to Extra, Sora does nothing the entire movie, and that is without even discussing the way it ends on a cliffhanger to the blatant retconning of the Adventure continuity in order to shoehorn their Broken Aesop.
As a standalone movie, it's pretty mediocre, nothing exciting or new. As a sequel to Digimon Adventure and as the supposed love letter to the older audience they intended it to be, it's an insult.
So far, the reboot is turning out great. Hopefully, it will stay that way, because this series desperately needs a good entry again.
Anime A Middle Finger to Older Fans
I was looking forward to this movie, I thought the trailers were just deceiving the viewers when they introduced some of those dumb, blatantly retconning plot-points. But no, the movie is exactly about what the trailers tell you is about.
Without spoiling too much, the overall message of this movie is: People grow up, they can't be clinging to old memories forever, they have responsibilities and they must let go of their childhoods in order to become fully functional adults. Okay, so basically, this whole movie is the producers' way of telling older fans to go away, they are not allowed to enjoy Digimon anymore because they've hit the age limit.
If only that was where the movie's problems ended. There is a gigantic disregard to a certain plot point introduced in Tri that isn't ever addressed or acknowledged, one character from this movie feels recycled straight out of Tri, every single character other than Taichi and Yamato are Demoted to Extra, Sora does nothing the entire movie, and that is without even discussing the way it ends on a cliffhanger to the blatant retconning of the Adventure continuity in order to shoehorn their Broken Aesop.
As a standalone movie, it's pretty mediocre, nothing exciting or new. As a sequel to Digimon Adventure and as the supposed love letter to the older audience they intended it to be, it's an insult.
So far, the reboot is turning out great. Hopefully, it will stay that way, because this series desperately needs a good entry again.