In the first half of the movie, which sketches this background and introduces various characters, the children team up with some good Digimon to thwart an evil Digimon that invades the Internet, thus threatening, as one little boy puts it, to ''wipe out all technology as we know it.'' In fact, the world inhabited by the children of ''Digimon'' is strangely devoid of adults, leaving battling monsters to devastate swaths of some city with Japanese street signs without intervention by the police, military forces or, for that matter, anyone who seems not to be possessed by a passivity attributable to too much time in front of a television set or a computer screen.įor those whose good fortune is to be exposed to the ''Digimon'' movie solely by reading this review, the two tales it tells revolve around some supposedly terrestrial children known as the DigiDestined and the Digimon, their companions from the fantastic Digiworld. And the few adults, particularly a mother whose culinary repertory is inclined toward taste treats like liver sticks, are strictly buffoons. On the other hand or claw or Godzilla-like foot, it should be noted that the little girls in ''Digimon: The Movie'' are represented mainly as vacuous party animals or budding sex objects.
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