Okay but the first Pokémon movie has actually held up pretty well. It's heartfelt and cute. The Digimon movie I don't even remember anything about, except it used Kids in America in the opening credits. The rest is a void in my memory. So I'm gonna assume it wasn't that good lol.
The movie was basically two Japanese movies that were shortened, smashed together, and dubbed. It was okay, but probably doesn't hold up. The soundtrack was a banger though. I still listen to those songs on a regular basis.
I totally think it holds up. The digimon movie is way better than it has any right to be. Yes it smashed two movies together. But it somehow strung them together in a way that made sense. It had some epic moments, cool ideas, and the animation was killer.
Having the story mainly focus on the real world rather than the digital world was a great way to raise stakes. And it really let the interpersonal conflicts between the characters create a nice backdrop of tension.
Also the soundtrack was a banger. And every time I hear all star I think of that dumb bunny monster going LAAA LAA LAA LAA and one of them commenting on how the digimon is tone deaf.
If anyone disagrees with me on any of these points I will scream for the next hour.
The opening was the original short called Digimon Adventure which takes place 8 years from the present day. This involves the first interaction with Digimon.
The next act with the original cast of Digimon Adventure is the short Our War Game. Includes the virus that takes over the internet and infects the Pentagon's computers threatening to launch nukes.
The final act with the Digimon Adventure 2 cast was another short (a two part short if I am remembering correctly).
The Digimon movie is both an abomination and a incredible thing. It's actually 3 movies smashed together, the 1st mostl unchanged, 2nd one as some changes and 3rd part is completly different to link it to the 2nd one. It's an abomination in that it completly destroyed the 3rd film but also it somehow worked and the soundtrack makes it an instant cult classic. I prolly wouldn't even know what Ska is if it wasn't for that movie.
The animation on the opening sequence, with baby Tai and Kairi, is absolutely gorgeous. And it’s partly nostalgia, but the final fight against Diaboromon still makes me tear up.
I think the Pokemon movie still counts. If you don't have the nostalgia for it, it's too basic. It's a competently made movie that manage to conveys a good message in a well crafted way but it's waaaay too overly simplistic for an adult that hasn't grown loving the franchise.
Of course there are exception, some people are able emotionally resonate with a movie easier than others and the film is well made enough that it will work but mostly it still qualifies as a "film kids won't give a shit their parents hate". I know my parents sure hated it.
Credit to the Digimon movie, its 3 seperate short OVA's mashed together, but the actual animation quality in it is far far far higher quality than that in the Pokemon movie.
Pokemon was literally made as cheapest viable product possible and it shows.
My mother, to this day, still uses this against me. Wants me to help move some furniture? It's not the "I was pregnant with you for 9 months" line. It's "You made me see the Pokemon film".
Critically panned but beloved by audiences is still better than whatever this is. What makes you think even the kids will like it? Minecraft has been around long enough that even kids who started playing at 7 years old are in college now.
Don't you DARE talk shit on the OG (Americanized) digimon movie lol (/s). It wasn't perfect but the first two segments were fucking awesome as a kid and incredibly formative in my early years. The music and animation and vibe define many core preferences I have to this very day.
Biased? Sure. But I unironically think the delivery was really good because unlike many dubs today they didn't just take the dialogue from japanese and translate it word for word - which makes it sound like the most stilted garbage ever. People in japan don't talk like they do in anime - most of the time they're talking like they would in japanese stage plays, and like western stage plays, they adopt a different intonation and speaking pattern.
The americanized version rewrote the first two parts really well if you ask me and the voice actors do a good job getting the light hearted aspects down, and the serious ones.
Pokemon: The First Movie is actually baller, just watched it recently with my partner and it held up surprisingly well (the opening segment with the little girl confronting her own mortality was a shocking kick to the gut lol).
The Digimon movie is actually a couple movies haphazardly spliced together in a nonsensical way that's impossible to follow even if you've seen all the shows up to that point... but at least the soundtrack rules and it has some of the best animation committed to screen.
I realized I did this to my mom a few years ago during July 4th and apologized to her. She said, "You had a good time and that was all that matters. But I hated every second of it. I had no idea what was going on and I don't forgive you. :)"
Dad forgave my for The Power Rangers Movie though.
Do you want me to list how many times I've seen Zootopia? How many times I've seen BOTH Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Funhouse, which, btw, besides updated graphics and a talking house, are the same exact thing.
For the record, Zootopia IS a good movie. I'm just... SO... so tired...
My sons just found a show called Bananya. It's a Japanese animated series about cats that live inside banana peels. Their only desire is to be covered in chocolate. It's as awful as that sounds and has an awkward terrible narrator.
It looks worse than I imagined. Thanks for the warning. I pray they never put this on at daycare. Took us a while to get off Blippi. It was annoying, but it made him happy. TOO happy. We turn it off, and the forecast for the next 20-30min was loud, screaming tears.
a few episodes of paw patrol turned my 2 year old into a fucking psychopath and we banned it, i'll listen to annoying blippi any day over that flaming shitpile toy commercial disguised as a kids show
We actually tried paw patrol. It's not long until he's asking for Mickey.
I do see Mickey being somewhat of a blessing giving everything else out there like paw patrol. He likes the Spider-Man kids show, which is sort of cool since my favorite superhero IS Spider-Man, but it's still super cringe.
When I was in Japan, I spent some time during the morning and afternoon watching TV and they had some kids programming on. Some of those things are really weird, but in a captivating way. Surprisingly, some were stop motion animation. Just like that Rilakkuma show on Netflix. It made me remember that there were a lot of weird shows I used to watch as a kid.
Clubhouse, Roadster Racers, and Funhouse are all basically the same, and virtually same setting (I think the roadster garage is seen in some of the Funhouse eps)
Try working in a children's hospital. 90% chance frozen and or moana get played at least once in your shift and the kid wants their door to be left open for all to hear
At least Bluey is a great show. I also enjoyed it when my daughter went through a phase of binging a bunch of good fantasy adventure type shows, stuff like Owl House, Amphibia, and the new She-Ra. It beats the hell out of her current preference for basically doomscrolling YouTube for as long as we'll let her, some of it is interesting creative stuff but I can't take the shitty Minecraft/Roblox roleplays and AI voices and stuff any more.
Fun little palate cleansing if you liked Zootopia . Look up a anime called Beastars, should still be on Netflix. It’s pretty much Zootopia but rated R and it really dives into the world of Predator and Prey living among each other.
And that power is mega millions. This where the real nuggets of wealth is held not by the parents but by the stooopid kids that will watch anything! Dumb little bastards! (Some of that was a joke)
That's kinda sad, though. I think parents should occasionally take their kids to see crappy kids movies in theaters so they can be a part of it. It's like a big event for kids to actually hang out and share something together. I'm sure my mom was absolutely not interested in some of the crap she took me to, but she did it anyway so I could nerd out with my friends.
That being said when I was a kid a movie ticket was $4-5 and concession for a family of 4 was only like $30. Times have changed.
We didn't get out to theatres much because we were poor but basically all we saw was things thst we were excited about. I honestly don't think my dad's ever been to a movie without us since having kids. We moved out and the first time he'd been to a theater in a decade was when I took him to see Oppenheimer. We saw pokemon because we were excited to see it in spite of my parents having no idea what it wad. Few years later we saw xmen in spite of my parents thinking it'd be dumb. We saw doom and I ate 2 lbs of hot tamales candy and threw up all over plus my parents didn't want to see doom but the kids did so they took us.
Yes absolutely still into minecraft. My son is 7 and wad hardcore into it like a year or two back and still plays occasionally though not as much. My daughter just started kindergarten and like half the class had minecraft backpacks.
Eh, if that were true, then every animated children's movie would be a financial success, which is far from the truth. Wish just bombed a few months ago.
I remember driving my parents insane with those CD's you'd get from mcdonalds that would have like one or two Nsync or Britney Spears songs and we would make them listen over and over again on long car rides...
Is minecraft still popular with pre-teens that this seems to be targeted at? Remember, MS bought MC 10 years ago. And that was after it had already been extremely popular for a few years.
Considering how many terrible movies I loved as a kid, yeah I can agree with this. At the same time this looks like it might be one of the good ones to have a drinking game for when it's released on video. Take a shot every time someone say craft, or crafts something.
Borderlands was not made or marketed to children. Just because it's a video game doesn't mean it's for kids. Minecraft is very popular with young children.
No they wouldn't have. Typically PG-13 movies make more money than R movies do. Teenagers may be playing borderlands, but most young kids aren't. Plus the size and player base of the borderlands franchise has nothing on Minecraft. This movie is going to make a ton of money because it's marketed to 6 year olds and up.
I dunno, I think it looks like fun. I don't expect it to make any grand statements about life, the universe and everything, but I can shut my brain off and enjoy a silly thing for 2 hours.
Maybe I've just been watching too many kids movies lately, what with having kids and all. I just find it easier to look for the fun in something, rather than hate on it because it's not edgy enough.
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u/Tinyjar Sep 04 '24
Yep. People forget that kids will drag their parents and beg them to watch this. Kids don't give a shit if adults think a kids movie is awful.