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[[caption-width-right:300:[[ThemeTuneRap ''When the DigiPast and the DigiPresent collide, time to DigiSize!'']]]]

->''"Who says there's no such thing as monsters?"''
->''"I'm looking for the programmer, don't interfere!"''

''Digimon: The Movie'' is a 2000 {{compilation|Movie}} of short movies from the ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' franchise: ''[[Recap/DigimonAdventurePilot Digimon Adventure]]'' (a PilotMovie), ''[[Recap/DigimonAdventureMovieOurWarGame Digimon Adventure: Our War Game!]]'' (a ShortFilm), and ''[[Recap/DigimonAdventure02M1TranscendentEvolutionTheGoldenDigimentals Digimon Adventure 02: Digimon Hurricane Touchdown!! / Supreme Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals]]'' (another ShortFilm). It was the first time the franchise saw a movie in American cinemas (and for the longest time, the only one, until the ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'' series saw some theatrical releases).

Taking place over a span of eight years, the movie chronicles the first appearance of Digimon, TheInternet meltdown and near-nuclear holocaust caused by [[DiscOneFinalBoss Diaboromon]], and the fight between the cast of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' and a mysterious Digimon named Kokomon.

The first two chapters of the movie (''Digimon Adventure'' and ''Our War Game'') were under director Creator/MamoruHosoda, who went on to make several well-acclaimed films including ''Anime/SummerWars''.

The rest of the Digimon movies would later be dubbed as well, though unlike this movie, were all kept in their separate entries. They were only shown on Creator/ToonDisney with no DVD releases.

On July 29, 2023, [[https://twitter.com/discotekmedia/status/1685352895645188096?s=20 a full remaster and redub of all three individual movies]] was announced to be in production by Discotek Media, as well as a remaster of the original compilation movie dub itself. (No ''WesternAnimation/AngelaAnaconda'' short will be included though.)
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!!This movie provides examples of:
* AdaptationOriginConnection: In the original Japanese versions of "Our War Game" and "Hurricane Touchdown/Transcendent Evolution", the origins of the Digi-Egg that Kuramon hatched from, as well as the virus that corrupted Kokomon, are both unspecified. In this movie, the Digi-Egg was created by Kokomon's tamer, Willis, but was subsequently attacked by the Kuramon virus. Sometime after its defeat as Diaboromon, the virus is then shown to be the same one that finds Kokomon.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: After Veemon and Terriermon respectively digivolved into Magnamon and Rapidmon, they became a lot more hammy and talkative than they were in the original japanese version. In the original, they were serious, and [[TheQuietOne talked very little]], to the point that ''they never even [[TransformationNameAnnouncement announced]] their names''.
* AdaptedOut: The dub version of ''Golden Digimentals'' omitted the plot about the kidnapping of older Digidestineds, and all scenes involving them were removed.
%% ABoyAndHisX: The movie is centered around Tai, Willis, and their Digimon. %% Add more context to describe their relationship and what effect it has on them. %%
* AmericaSavesTheDay: Subverted. When Diaboromon [[spoiler: fires two American nuclear ICBM missiles at Japan and Colorado]] the American government tries to intercept them along with Japan and several other nations. [[spoiler: Their missiles, are redirected by Diaboromon to fall into the Pacific ocean due to his infiltration and infection of the U.S. Department of Defense computers at the Pentagon.]]
* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: The poster depicts the characters as much more angry and aggressive than they are in the film itself or the original series.
* AnimatedMusicVideo: {{One hit wonder}}s Len CoveredUp the song "Kids in America" for the film and also produced a music video for the song which shows the band as they appear on the cover to ''You Can't Stop the Bum Rush''.
* ArcWelding: The third section of the film, featuring the 02 cast, is reinterpreted as a sequel to the original Diablomon incident, ''Our War Game''.
* ArcWords: "Don't interfere" and then "Go back to the beginning".
* ArtisticLicense: A technological case in a ''major'' plot point during the second act of the movie. [=WarGreymon=] and [=MetalGarurumon=] wind up getting their connection speed cut by millions of people flooding Izzy's email account. Not only do emails not interfere with internet connection, but [=MetalGarurumon=] shouldn't even be affected since he's patched in through ''an entirely different internet connection.'' This is forgivable however since the plot would lose a good deal of drama without it.
* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Kari, T.K. and their Digimon go by train from New York to Colorado [[TravellingAtTheSpeedOfPlot in under a day.]]
* AutobotsRockOut: The soundtrack includes music by Music/BarenakedLadies, Music/LessThanJake, and Music/SmashMouth, among others.
* BeyondTheImpossible:
** Hikari's digivolution hijinks with Greymon in the first portion. There's no Digivices, no crests, no digi-eggs, no digivolution assists anywhere... but it goes through every single evolution stage known at the time in quick succession.
** The Mega-level when introduced in the first season was already this but in this movie we have two Mega-level Digimon [[FusionDance Digivolve together]] into the second ever Ultra-level Digimon (the first being Apocalymon from the ''Adventure'' finale). Also, since this scene takes place before Season 2, no one had any idea that Digimon could merge at all, let alone two Megas.
* {{BFG}}: [=MetalGarurumon's=] contribution to Omnimon's arsenal is the "Supreme Cannnon." [[WaveMotionGun It's powerful enough]] to [[spoiler: wipe out hundreds of Diaboromon clones with a single shot.]]
* {{BFS}}: Omnimon sports one in the arm that constitutes [=WarGreymon=] [[spoiler: and eventually drives it through Diaboromon's head, mere milliseconds before the nukes would've detonated]].
* BigBad: The Virus is responsible for all the trouble that goes on for two thirds of this movie.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: In the second segment, after Izzy's computer is disconnected, he and Tai stare at the camera in fear. (With Izzy even talking directly to the audience) In the third, Cody says Digmon "could be better animated".
* BreakoutCharacter: Terriermon ended up becoming one of the partner Digimon in the team of three in ''Anime/DigimonTamers'', and is the only later addition Digimon to get enough merch to rival the ''Adventure'' cast.
* CanonImmigrant: Ryo from the Wonderswan games makes an appearance in the second segment.
* CarCushion: After Koromon ends up digivolving into a huge Agumon, he jumps out the window of Tai and Kari's bedroom and lands on a car beneath. The dub adds a bit of funny dialogue as to its owner:
-->'''Tai:''' If Mom's worried about the lamp, wait till she sees her car!
* CatastrophicCountdown:
** ''"Who can count backwards from ten?"''
** "Which one has the clock?" in the original though the countdown was still shown.
* CombatPragmatist: Infermon attacks Greymon and Kabuterimon [[TransformationIsAFreeAction as they finish digivolving]] [[InvertedTrope into their ultimate forms, resulting in them being reduced back to their Rookie forms of Agumon and Tentomon]].
* CompilationMovie: Of the first three Digimon film shorts.
* ContinuitySnarl: The "Present-day" segment popular fanon says it would take place between episode 21 and episode 22, but Gatomon is able to Digivolve to Angewomon which we later find out she shouldn't be able to do so. There's also the fact that Angemon and Angewomon reach Mega and act like this is something they've always been able to do; they never reached Mega before in the series and don't do so again until Digimon Adventure Tri.
* TheCorruption: The Virus which infects Diaboromon [[spoiler: and Kokomon]].
* CoversAlwaysLie:
** Similar to how all the trailers and TV ads only focused on the second and third segment, the front cover of the movie poster focuses only on the characters in the third segment (with only Omnimon from the second segment far above the title), acting like the entire movie takes place during 02. The back of the VHS synopsis always describes a wayward Digimon kidnapping the Digidestined, which is true for the uncut third Japanese movie, but not for the American film.
** There are also two Terriermons in the cover for some reason. In the movie, there is only one.[[labelnote:Although...]]A popular theory is that the second one is supposed to be 'Kokomon' as a Rookie, long before Lopmon was ever seen in canon. Still no reason for it to be on the cover though.[[/labelnote]]
* DarkestHour: When they get defeated by Diaboromon the first time and Tai and Izzy get reconnected they find that [=WarGreymon=] and [=MetalGarurumon=] are in very poor shape and practically unable to fight ([=WarGreymon=] being unconscious when they find him) and when it seems it can't get any worse, [[spoiler:Izzy gets an email from someone who hacked into the Pentagon and found out a nuclear missile code named "Peace Keeper" has just been launched by Diaboromon with no determined target (in the dub, this was changed to two missiles, one launched at Colorado and the second being aimed right at Tai and Izzy); it could hit ANYWHERE in the world and they have no way of tracking it, and they only have 10 minutes to find Diaboromon and stop the clock. Easy, right? Wrong, because he starts multiplying himself when the countdown starts, and when they track him down, he's already made millions of copies of himself.]]
* DemotedToExtra: Mimi and Joe get little more than cameos throughout the movie. Neither of them appear in the third segment since the subplot about the older kids being kidnapped was cut. While all the scenes of the older kids in that segment stem from right before they're kidnapped by Endigomon in ''Hurricane Touchdown'', Joe's didn't lend itself to a pithy joke (he just gets himself a drink out of a vending machine and disappears) and Mimi actually vanishes right in front of Kari and T.K., which would have caused all sorts of questions for a plot thread no longer being pursued.
* DeusExMachina: Angemon and Angewomon just obtain the previously unmentioned Golden Digi-Eggs from nowhere. There is a bit of an explanation [[AllThereInTheManual within the card game]] in that their Mega forms are supposed to be the keepers of the Golden Digi-Eggs. Though this still doesn't explain how they were able to reach those forms in the first place, not to mention causing a [[ContinuitySnarl continuity issue]] with the main series.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: The Digidestined thought that defeating Diaboromon would solve the problem, but The Virus escaped to cause more trouble later.
* DubInducedPlotHole: The film is crawling with them, which is inevitable considering that it was rushed out after being made from three Japanese films.
** One big one would be the final act of the movie, as in the original Kokomon was kidnapping the Digidestined and de-aging them. In the dub this plot point is removed and when the final battle happens the De-aging of everybody else comes out of nowhere and is not elaborated on in the slightest (aside from a mention on Kokomon "going back in time").
** The third segment of the movie was not intended to take place in-continuity. The dub puts it into continuity, which causes a plot hole in the penultimate episode of ''02'' when Patamon and Gatomon do not digivolve into Seraphimon and Magnadramon respectively.
* DubNameChange: The dub changes the name "Diablomon" to "Diaboromon", a Nihon-Shiki romanization of his name. This is most likely a result of early [=2000s=] American kids programming shying away from overt religious references.
* DuelingHackers: Diaboromon and Izzy during the second segment.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Meta example. This is the first time Terriermon appears in the franchise before being the digimon of a protagonist in ''Anime/DigimonTamers''. This also applies to his digievolutions.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first segment (which is kind of the original pilot to the series) Greymon has a more horizontal body structure like an actual therapod dinosaur instead of the more upright one he would have in all other adaptations. Additionally, Agumon is roughly the size of a car and both have deeper more intimidating voices. Both use altered versions of their in-series moves as well, with Agumon using the much larger and more destructive "Pepper Flame" and Greymon using "Nova Flame" which is more of a flamethrower than a bigger Pepper Breath. The credits differentiate them from their main-series counterparts with the named "Big Agumon" and "Red Greymon".
* EpicMovie: Takes place over the span of eight years, involves three individual stories, and involves many, many characters. Inverted in that it's more like a BMovie in content.
* EldritchAbomination: The Virus. At first it's just a computer virus that corrupted the Digi-Egg that would eventually hatch into Diaboromon, [[spoiler: however after Diaboromon is defeated it crosses into the human world, tracks down Willis, and infects Kokomon.]]
* FourIsDeath: The movie's three parts are each separated by a span of four years and at the beginning four Digimon are born into the human world, Parrotmon, implied to have been the fourth to do so, being the evil one.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Diaboromon started out as a Kuramon that had just hatched and soon began digivolving at the fastest rate of the franchise, his influence over the internet growing with him. This is justified since the virus that infected him during the creation of his digi-egg accelerated the process.
* FusionDance: [=WarGreymon=] and [=MetalGarurumon=] combine into [[TwoBeingsOneBody Omnimon]].
* GratuitousEnglish: In the original cut of the last movie Wallace (Willis) starts off talking in full blown English when confronting Cocomon and when on the phone with his parents. However, when alone with Terriermon, he starts talking in Japanese again. Justified later when talking to the group; he mentions that he used to have a Japanese girlfriend and he learned to talk Japanese for her. However, there is some inconsistency later on when he calls his mom again and talks to her in Japanese even though he should be speaking English.
* TheGhost: Despite being the BigBad of the movie, you never see The Virus beyond [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm some abnormal wind]].
* HonorBeforeReason: Sora considers helping Tai fight Diaboromon, to the point where she comes close to knocking on his door. She refuses at the last moment, too upset over the hairclip he give her on her birthday.
* TheInternet: The battleground for the second part.
* IronicEcho: "Connection terminated." The first instance is an OhCrap moment when Tai's internet drops out. The line makes a comeback as a BondOneLiner when Diaboromon is killed by Omnimon's sword milliseconds before the nukes would've detonated.
* TheMovie: The first one for the ''Digimon'' series.
* NeverTrustATrailer: All of the advertising focused solely on the second segment, presumably because it was the most interesting and they wanted to avoid telling audience it was three different stories loosely tied together.
* NonSequiturThud: After they are defeated by Infermon, we got a couple of amusing ones from Agumon and Tentomon.
-->'''Tai''': Agumon! Say something!\\
'''Agumon''': Don't take me out, Coach.\\
'''Izzy''': Tentomon!\\
'''Tentomon''': I'm fine. Just one question: Who's Tentomon?
* OpinionFlipFlop: Willis is telling Davis a sob-story and Davis, beside himself with sorrow, chokes, "That's the saddest story I've ever heard." Willis responds, "I'm the one with the problem, not you. Get over it," and Davis, immediately in high spirits without a trace of tears, says, "Okay!" Willis even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades it right after:]]
-->'''Willis''': Hey, that was fast!
* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: Koromon calls Kari and Tai the best friends he ever had. Kari points-out that they're the only friends he ever had, since he just hatched. Cue Koromon glomp-kissing her. ''Again.''
* PersonalSpaceInvader: The first Koromon that Tai and Kari meet likes to do this. His way of thanking people is to latch onto their faces and kiss them until he pops off.
* PostCyberPunk: The ''Our War Game'' segment more so than the other sections because it takes place inside the Internet.
* ProductPlacement:
** Kari mentions she got her friend a pink Franchise/{{Power Ranger|s}} figure for her birthday.
** In the third section, Davis, Terriormon and Veemon crash into a Northwest Airlines billboard.
* ResidualEvilEntity: Diaboromon, the main villain of the ''Our War Game'' act, is destroyed by [[FusionDance Omnimon]]. However, the virus that created him lives on and corrupts the Digimon partner of an American Digidestined Willis.
* SawAWomanInHalf: Kari volunteers to have this done to her at a friend's birthday party while Tai, Izzy and their Digimon fight off Diaboromon. Tai jokes afterwards asking for the half with legs to get home ASAP.
* ShipTease:
** The dub gives a rather cute one between Joe and Mimi, wherein one of the many letters piling up in Mimi's mailbox is a heart-shaped message that says "To Mimi, From Joe". In the original, it was just Mimi's family's nameplate.
** Sora misses out on the whole war game against Diaboromon because she and Tai are too busy going through a phase of BelligerentSexualTension.
* SoundtrackDissonance: A huge chunk of the pop music used in the dub could qualify, especially when it was used in "Our War Game". The biggest offender would be during the phone jamming scene where Less Than Jake's "All My Best Friends are Metalheads" is used with no rhyme or reason for it being there. (Though it does, arguably, go pretty well with the rhythm of the sequence, especially Diaboromon crawling across the American flag.)
* StarterVillain: Parrotmon is the villain of the first segment.
* StressVomit: Izzy is left collapsed on the apartment railing gasping for air as he and Tai watch the nuke Diaboromon fired at them land harmlessly in a nearby lake: had Omnimon been a split-second later, that nuke would have wiped them out along with the rest of their neighborhood.
-->'''Izzy:''' I'm...''about''...''to'' '''''barf.'''''
-->'''Tai:''' Wait 'till you try [[LethalChef the cake...]]
* TransformationIsAFreeAction: Averted when Infermon intentionally attacks Greymon, Kabuterimon, and Patamon mid-digivolution sequence, preventing their transformation.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: During the second part, both Tentomon and Patamon completely disappear without comment after Tai and Izzy get disconnected.
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