"DIGIMON: THE MOVIE"

Screenplay and Adaptation by Bob Buchholz and Jeff Nimoy

The total number of nitpicks, bloopers and things of note for each section is given in brackets after the section header.

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Angela Anaconda Short
Opening Credits
Highton View Terrace, Japan - Eight Years Ago
Four Years Later
Present Day

BUT FIRST... (8)

Before we even begin to look at the movie, the movie poster demands our attention.

Almost all the advertising for the movie focused on the second segment of it, with Diaboromon, and yet for some reason the major focus of the poster, by far, is the third segment. I would guess that it was a means to actually let audiences know that other stuff actually happened in the movie, beyond what the TV ads and trailers focused on.

Who do the giant eyes in the background belong to? It's a fairly logical assumption that they'd be Diaboromon's, but they don't look anything like his.

Angewomon has six wings instead of eight. And they have a peculiar pinkish-purple shading applied to them, but I'll let that slide on the basis of artistic... stuff.

The artists have deliberately not drawn Patamon and Gatomon with the other Digimon because Angemon and Angewomon are present. However, Veemon is drawn while Magnamon is present.

The whites of Willis's eyes are not coloured in, remaining flesh-coloured like the rest of his face.

Why in the hell does everyone look so damn pissed off? I realise the artists were going for a sort of "action" and "determination" thing, but everyone just looks like someone insulted their mothers really badly.

There are apparently two Terriermons running around at the bottom of the image. Obviously, one of them is intended to be Lopmon, but it's not clear which one. You'd think that the one running by Willis is supposed to be Terriermon, but it has three horns and a "collar" with two points, like Lopmon, instead of Terriermon's single horn and single-pointed collar, and is a much darker green than Terriermon should be. The other Terriermon-looking Digimon, next to Kari, meanwhile, is coloured with Terriermon's correct green, and has Terriermon's one horn and one-pointed collar - but has Lopmon's single fang, and an expression on his face that's nasty-looking (nastier, that is, than everyone else's). So it's not just a simple case of colouring them incorrectly - they've been drawn totally wrong, and it's really not evident which is supposed to be which. Plus, Lopmon isn't even IN the American movie, so putting him on the poster was just dumb.

Oh, and the "Terriermon" beside Kari has eyes with whites and a pupil, when, regardless of whether he's supposed to be Terriermon or Lopmon, they should be purely black.

OTHER STUFF

The trailer for it had a good number of bloopers and noteworthy things all it's own, which I'd previously considered listing, but decided against. They include almost every line of dialogue being spoken by a character either not being in the finished film, or being different in it, and an extra second or so of Izzy running out onto the Kamiya's balcony, which was cut from the finished version of the movie.

The VHS and DVD packging also contains a very glaring error, claiming that "a wayward Digimon captures the DigiDestined." This is part of the plot that was removed from the third movie, wherein Kokomon captured the season one DigiDestined. The packaging also claims that a "new group of DigiDestined" are involved in the Diaboromon battle, and while they're obviously referring to the season two kids, that's also just plain wrong.

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AND SO... TO THE MOVIE!

ANGELA ANACONDA SHORT (2)

Whenever Johnny Abatti turns his head, the image of Agumon on his hat flips itself over to face the other way. It shouldn't do this.

When Angela "Digivolves" to "MegaAngelamon," her design is obviously based on Tai. What is less obvious, however, is that Gina Lash is wearing a pink version of 01 T.K.'s hat, and Johnny Abatti isn't wearing anyone's outfit, but has Izzy's hair, in his own blue colour.

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OPENING CREDITS (1)

You'd think I'd be hard pushed to find errors in THIS, but I can. Patamon's eyes are coloured green instead of their correct blue, and Tentomon is coloured a bright red (as Bandai of America are consistently wont to do), instead of a magenta-ish red.

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HIGHTON VIEW TERRACE, JAPAN
EIGHT YEARS AGO (19)

I've heard it said that the words that flicker in the background of the computer screen that Kari is looking at are Bible verses. I can't personally figure out what they say, though, as they're infuriatingly hard to read.

Does anyone else just find it kinda odd that Mrs. Kamiya ups and leaves a seven-year-old and a four-year-old alone in an apartment for this length of time? As I understand it, though, it's not nearly as big a deal in Japan. But dammit, he's cooking eggs. That's not safe.

Tai remarks, "If anyone asks us where that weird egg came from, let's tell 'em our chicken coop is on a nuclear waste dump!" They have a chicken coop in an apartment building...?

When Tai wants to know where the Botamon will sleep, Kari shakes her head. How does this signify "Tai's bed"? Even if she was saying this in whistles (you know what I mean!), the head motion doesn't go with the statement.

When Tai answers the phone, he hears the following: "This is Sora! Mimi told me you were the one who through up in my hat! I'm really mad at you, Tai Kamiya!" Well, the problem here is that at this point in time, neither Tai nor Sora knows Mimi.

When Tai is counting Koromon's bounces, the times at which he speaks aloud the numbers don't match up with the timing of the bounces.

Miko tackles Koromon beside the bunk beds, but when Tai runs over, Koromon is suddenly on the other side of the room. The reason for this that the scene was longer in the original Japanese version and the two of them were seen moving around more of the room.

When the Koromon Digivolves into "Big Agumon," as the credits name him, his personality undergoes a complete change - instead of being a perfectly coherent creature, he's now a grunting animal who reacts like a wild creature with no regard for Kari's safety. But then when he becomes Greymon, he snaps back to being intelligent and protects Tai and Kari. Why such sudden changes? It's almost comparable to the likes of the uncontrollable SkullGreymon or Megidramon, only this was a totally natural Digivolution.

When Kari picks up cans of soda (Pop!), she says, "just one each..." - but then, as Agumon walks off, she is picking up a third can. Maybe she was getting one for Tai, too...

Emblazoned on the side of the truck that almost runs Agumon and Kari down are the words "Factry Mark" [sic] (see screenshot). There is no reason to comment on this... yet. Wait for the second part of the movie, though...

There's also the fact that, godammit, from his proximity to the truck when he disappears off the screen, Agumon would not have had the time to jump over it. It's this sort of thing that bugs me most of all.

This Big Agumon's attack is "Pepper Flame," but there's really no reason for the attack name to be different from that of a regular Agumon.

Joe speaks into his phone on two occasions, saying, "Izzy, did you see that?" and "Mimi, it's Joe, look out your window!" As with Tai, Sora and Mimi from earlier, the problem here is that Joe, Izzy and Mimi don't know each other at this point.

The credits call this Greymon, "Red Greymon." "Big Agumon," I'll accept, because he's big... but this Greymon isn't red. And again, there's no real reason for his attack name to be different.

After Greymon crashes to the ground, Parrotmon looms over him. As electricity crackles between his 'antennae,' Parrotmon's eyes are missing their pupils and irises (see screenshot). I actually imagine this was intentional, to make him look more threatening, but, y'know, still.

When Greymon hit Parrotmon with his first Nova Flame at the start of the battle, Parrotmon's entire left wing was blasted off (see screenshot). But when Greymon blasts him with his final Nova Flame, the wing appears to be perfectly intact.

In the daylight, Kari's pyjamas are a brown colour. The characters are commonly coloured in darker tones for night-time scenes, but during the night, Kari's pyjamas were pink in colour. For them to be brown in daylight is just... weird. Maybe she's just caked in filth from the rubble... draw your own conclusions from the screenshot comparison below.

As Kari the Narrator closes out this portion of the movie, she remarks that "being a DigiDestined means sometimes you have to save the world, even if you're the one who caused the trouble!" Well, far be it from me to question Little Miss Goodness and Holy Light, but if you were the one who caused the trouble, wouldn't it be your *responsibility* to do something about it? The "even if" makes it sound like it shouldn't.

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FOUR YEARS LATER (50)

When Kuramon appears and send his "Hello!" e-mail, his e-mail address can be read. It is: @@@@@@djm.factorymark.co.jp. The 'djm' is an abbreviation for "dejimon," the Romanisation of "Digimon" - but "factorymark"... remember the truck from the first part of the movie? More on this in a minute - look at the screenshot for now. Note that the address used does change when Infermon is at the phone company and sending a mail from America, but the "djm" is still in both of these. The "factorymark" seems to be his default address, because he goes back to using it later.

Tai accidentally types "love" at the end of his mail, then groans, "I meant from!" But when Kari enters, and Tai turns around, he bumps the keyboard, and we see that the word "from" is highlighted on the screen, and becomes "love." Does that seem right to you? It seems to me that the implication is that he highlighted "love" and typed "from," and then accidentally undid it when he bumped the keyboard - but he's never shown to touch the keyboard between flopping back after typing "love" and bumping it, which he would need to do to replace "love" with "from."

Doesn't that field of flowers on the screen Sora walks past (see screenshot, above right) look a lot like the one Willis, Kokomon and Gummymon will be seen frolicking in later? I presume it's just coincidence.

As Tsumemon starts munchin' that data, and cash registers chatter, we see a signpost for a grocery store (see screenshot). The name of that grocery story? Factory Mark! An analysis of this is coming...

The Kamiya's TV bears the logo "NEC," which is the name of the company that releases the Digimon CDs (why look, it's a screenshot!). Keep on the look-out - this is going to appear a lot more!

When Tai runs past his mother to get to his father's computer, once he has gone a short distance away from her, he stops moving forward, and looks like he's running on the spot.

When Keramon appears, the Internet address of the window he pops up in is: www.factrymark.co.jp/system/pos - there's that Factry/Factory Mark again! I've tried searching this term out, but I can't find anything about it. At first I thought it was perhaps a company, or a reference to a person, involved with TOEI, but the credits yielded nothing to hint at that. Within the confines of this part of the movie, it'd be fair to assume that "Factory Mark" is a grocery store chain, and Keramon is still in its computers, which is why that's the address of the window he appears in. This doesn't really explain why it should be his e-mail address though - the address does change when Infermon is at the phone company, and when he is in America, but otherwise, the factorymark address is the one that he sends mails from, and it is the address to which Izzy forwards all the e-mails later. Also, the term originated in the first movie, and I doubt they were deliberately expanding on a meaningless truck logo by turning it into a grocery store. I'm convinced there is a greater meaning to this, but I have no idea what it is. If anyone knows anything about this, please, let me know!

Here's a thing - when Gomamon says "Gomamon!" that's Robert Martin Klein's single, solitary line in the entire movie. One word!

Tai says of Joe, "He's the only kid I know who volunteers for summer school!" Well, that's all well and good, Tai, but he's not in summer school now, as this is only occurring in March.

Tai wants to know if Kari has taken her cell phone with her to the birthday party, and then calls it, but it's blatantly obvious from the animation (not least from the sheer size of the handset Kari speaks into) that he simply phones the birthday girl's house. I've said it before - eight year olds do NOT need cell phones.

In my parody of the movie, I made the point that the Kamiya's phone changed from having a cord to being cordless when Tai threw it to Izzy. However, I can admit when I'm wrong - on closer inspection of the scene, it appears that the phone actually has a second, cordless handset (feel the screenshot power). This is what Tai throws to Izzy.

Sora refuses point-blank to speak to Tai on the phone, and yet seconds later is checking her e-mail to see if he has written her. If she is so eager for communication from him, why does she not just talk to him on the phone? Maybe I just don't understand women...

Sora's palmtop, incidentally, also bears the NEC logo.

Izzy gives Agumon and Tentomon his password so they can get on the Internet - "prodigious." A ten-letter word... but the password consists of twelve letters, as proven by the twelve asterisks that appear as the password is entered.

As the camera zooms in on Keramon, he is missing... well, geez, it's hard to tell, but damn, he's missing SOMETHING. It looks like all but one of his body-tendrils (i.e.: he's pretty much just a head with hands). Judge for yourself from the screenshot.

Nova Blast and Electro Shocker are really big, deadly-lookin' blasts when they are fired at Keramon, but when Greymon and Kabuterimon shoot them at Infermon, they're much smaller, and look like, for lack of a better description, Star-Wars-esque blaster bolts, instead of the giant, crackling/flaming uneven bolts and fireballs that were fired a minute or two ago.

When Greymon and Kabuterimon Digivolve to Ultimate, Tai and Izzy's Tags and Crests are visible. But the physical Crests no longer exist, having been destroyed by Apocalymon at the end of season one, so they should not be present during the Digivolution sequences.

In the theatrical version of the movie, when Izzy says, "If we lose our phone connection, we're finished! That's the only way we have access to the Internet!" he pronounced the word "access" in an odd way, which I'll write as "oxcess." In the video version, the dialogue has apparently been re-recorded, so that "access" sounds right.

When Infermon sets phones a-ringing, the second phone we see has the NEC logo.

Kari the Narrator says of the voicemail system, "Believe me, it wasn't so easy!" How exactly would she know this? You know, what with her not being there.

As Tai leaves messages with everyone, we see two clocks side-by-side in a train station. One says it's 10:25, but the digital clock claims it's 10:28 (see screenshot). This isn't visible in the VHS version, as the '8' is just off-screen.

The Kamiya apartment number is 1306. Just thought you might like to know. :)

Mimi's brief bit of dialogue ("Hawaii is paradise," etc) is actually what's written on her postcard. The postcard also has a cute little drawing of her head on it, as well. Check out the screenshot.

Is anyone else slightly worried by the fact that Izzy just has this satellite uplink just lying around? A ten-year-old with a device that allows him to hack into military satellites? Danger, Will Robinson...

Plot convenience, I know, but why, why, WHY did T.K. and Matt bring their Digivices with them?

As Infermon scuttles across a screen filled with road signs, one reads "LANE AHCAD." Obviously, this was supposed to read "ahead." Check the 'shot.

The TV screen that Infermon appears on in Times Square is another bearer of the NEC logo. Screenshot-me-do, sir!

It's 'round about this point that I always like to point out that neither Tai and Izzy nor Matt and T.K. actually HAVE web cams.

The computer in the barber shop is yet another object to bear the NEC logo.

As noted on the site's Trivia page, the whole scene in the barber shop is dubbed as a reference to the classic American TV show, "The Andy Griffith Show." The barber is named Floyd, the man he is shaving is named Andy, and the old couple are named Barney and Aunt Bea - all named after characters from the show (only Floyd is named in dialogue, the others are named in the credits). However, Andy is supposed to be the same guy that gave Matt and T.K. a lift on his bike (proven by the fact that bike is shown clearly sitting outside the barber shop) - but this man has already been referred to in the dub movie as "Uncle Al."

Gabumon's horn is missing its circuit-like details (see screenshot)

It's a mite tricky to see because of the angle, but when WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon are Digivolving, the computer that the first group of watching kids are clustered around appears to have the NEC logo on it. However, the computer that we see just after the voice says "Warp Digivolve!" (in the scene after the girl in the hospital bed) quite clearly has the logo on it, in big fat screen-dominating letters.

After WarGreymon sets Infermon spinning with a punch, we see MetalGaurumon jump back up. The screen flashes and Infermon spins the other way, obviously having been hit again, but it's very difficult to see MetalGarurumon at normal speed. Put the video on slow-motion, and you'll see the wolfmeister for a small number of frames. You may also be surprised by his size - Infermon may be bigger than you think he is!

When T.K.'s window appears beside Patamon after he is slammed into the girder, Patamon's foreleg is coloured orangeish, rather than its correct cream colour. Is this a screenshot I see before me?

A little animation Easter egg of sorts - when WarGreymon punches Diaboromon square in the face, pause your VCR and you'll see his eyes bug out in a fun, cartoony way

WarGreymon's Terra Force attack is, like... really small (see screenshot).

While the camera pans across the room as Tai explains his argument with Sora, the white streak in the sky outside is not actually moving.

When Tai and Izzy get back online, Patamon and Tentomon have vanished and don't appear again.

Here's a nifty little thing - Diaboromon's clock isn't just being used to count ten minutes, it's actually telling the correct time as well. Check out the clock reflected in Sora's mirror a few minutes beforehand - it says just after a quarter to twelve. A few minutes later, Diaboromon's clock then reads ten to twelve.

And HERE is where we hit the Really Big Dub Plot Hole: the notion that a missile launching from America will take the same amount of time to reach Japan as its sister missile will to get to Colorado - a substantial distance difference. And Izzy says he has "no idea" what's in Colorado for the second missile to be targeting - but even if he doesn't know Willis is a DigiDestined (there's no evidence to say if he does or doesn't), you'd think that he'd at least assume Willis was the second target, given how much help he's been giving Izzy during this whole scenario.

Everyone recognises the purple-haired girl typing at a computer during the "Here We Go" sequence as a young Yolei. However, who is the girl behind her? As we'll see in season two, this girl is neither of her sisters, and certainly not her mother. A babysitter, perhaps? Study the screenshot...

And of course, everyone knows about Ryo in this sequence too. Strike a pose! Anyway, my question here is: who's the kid behind him? Not that it really matters, or anything... screenshots are fun.

A large majority of the e-mails sent to Izzy are in Japanese. However, some of them are written in English. Slap on freeze frame, and read along! All of these are spelt as they appear on screen, and they repeat over and over.

-"Hey, man, as far as I know, you are tip-top." - Oliver
-"Kosiro, what do you make of all this? I don't ever have an opinion." - Elizabeth
-"I've grasped that, Kosiro. All I am doing now is contemplating the 'ifs.'" - Alfred (who looks very feminine in his picture...)
-"Will you tell me something? Has this ever happened to you before?" - Dolly
-"Leave to you!" - T.J.
-"Hey Kosiro!" - Olivia
-"Don't be defeat!" - Susan
-"Hold out!" - David - like the others, this repeats, but one of the repeated uses has a different picture on it than the other two
-"Chin Up!" - the sender's name is off screen.

When the Diaboromon all drop down from above, the head of one near the centre of the group changes from blue to black halfway (see screenshot). This footage is then flipped and looped immediately after, so the error is repeated.

As Tai attempts to wake WarGreymon, just before he starts into his speech, he mouths a word, but no sound comes out.

In the theatrical version of the film, Omnimon said "Supreme Cannon!" twice, the second time coming when we get our second close-up of the cannon firing. In the video version, he only says it once, the first time he fires it.

Isn't it just a lovely yummy coincidence that Omnimon managed to destroy every single Diaboromon *except* the original?

Originally, I wrote:
Maybe I simply am not versed in how nuclear missiles work (and I'll readily concede that I'm not)... but why does this thing not explode? Am I to understand that Diaboromon's clock was not counting down the flight time, but was instead serving as a timer that would, upon reaching zero, trigger the warhead's detonation? Even so, I would have thought that the missile impacting would have been enough to set it off.
But...
I was right, I'm NOT versed in how nuclear missiles work. E. Dan Alwyn helps me out with this:
"Although it is standard procedure for nuclear missiles to detonate relatively far above ground (spreading the misery around and avoiding wasting that multi-million dollar warhead vaporizing, say, the water in Tokyo Bay), there is a definite flaw. No matter how the launch computers are built, in this world of espionage, the US has long since realized that it is not a wise idea to build radio controlled missiles. The only way I could see this working is if Diaboromon had made a copy of himself in the missile flight computers, that was connected to the original, and Omnimon acted like a vaccine program, returning the computers to their original inert state. The impact then would not have set off the warhead (they're built not to go off unless someone really pushes the button).
The real problem is that we're supposed to believe that an ICBM, coming in out of low orbit at Mach 24 or so, is going to hit the shallow ground under the water and just stop. Just to give you an idea, if the missile hit a giant seesaw, junior high physics shows that it would fling a ten ton truck 8500km straight up. That's a lot of energy! Yet the bystanders, who appear to be standing close enough to read the serial numbers off the fuselage, just get a little wet. I was expecting massive holes in the ground, boiling, exploding water and a fantastic explosion as any leftover fuel ignited. This should cause a lot more damage than a mere jumbo jet crash. Yet the missile hits, sticks and falls over. Ah, anti-climatic screenwriting at its best..."

Does Sora not notice that giant wave, or what? I mean, she doesn't even look up... see the screenshot.

I really love how "The Impression That I Get" fits into this scene. The first line: "Have you ever been close to tragedy?" - why, yes, they just were! Then, as the line, "...so heavy you collapse..." is sung... the missile collapses. :)

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PRESENT DAY (43)

Before I get on with this part of the movie, I want to address the new animation models used for it. In the cartoon, Yolei, Cody, Kari and T.K. each had a new model sheet created for them circa 2.15, "Big Trouble in Little Edo," of new clothes that they wore on Earth in episodes set during summer. Davis did not, and continued to wear the clothes he had been wearing on Earth in the previous episodes. In this movie, he is wearing an interpretation of this outfit, while Yolei and Cody are wearing interpretations of their "summer" clothes. T.K. and Kari, meanwhile, are wearing their "DigiWorld/Earth" outfits (the outfits they wore on Earth in the early episodes, which they then switched to wearing upon entering the DigiWorld if wearing any other outfit). But there are some differences between the cartoon and movie versions of these outfits.

-Davis's jacket is a creamy brown instead of blue, his sweatbands are white instead of orange and his goggles are also slightly more angular in many scenes.
-Yolei's shirt is white instead of green (but it has the same logo on it).
-Cody's shirt is missing a couple of extra details around the collar, and his pants are blue instead of brown.
-Kari is not wearing her gloves.
-T.K.'s shirt has short sleeves instead of long.

This is also without getting into the fact that the girls on the team have been deliberately... enhanced in the chestal area. Yeah, yeah, differing art styles... sure, right. ;)

Kari the Narrator informs us that Matt's stage name is "The DigiDestined Formerly Known as Matt." No, okay? Just, NO.

In the establishing shot of the beach (see screenshot), we can see Veemon running around. But then, in the individual introductory shots of the different kids, it's DemiVeemon at Davis's side. Then we cut to the long shot of the group again, and he's Veemon. When we return to the beach in a little while, he's DemiVeemon again, and stays that way until he Digivolves to fight Kokomon.

When Kari the Narrator tells us that she is in America, for some reason a piece of footage from the end of the movie, of all the DigiDestined kids on the bridge together, is used.

Why, pray tell, does Endigomon have an attack called KOKO Crusher? Well, obviously, it's because he's only ever referred to as "Kokomon" for the entirety of the movie, but that doesn't make it right.

When Kari and T.K. run down the street, the laptop they were using but a moment ago is nowhere to be seen. Did they just leave it lying in the middle of the street?

Kari says of Kokomon (Endigomon), "I'm not sure it is a Digimon!" Oh yeah? What else could it possibly be, then, smartarse?

All Patamon hears Willis say is that he's going back to Colorado. He never names a city or area of any kind, and yet T.K. and Kari seem to be perfectly aware of where to go to find him.

Why does Kari send Davis an e-mail on the laptop (which has reappeared now), rather than her D-Terminal?

Willis says that Kokomon makes anyone close to him disappear. Why, then, is Willis's mom still around?

The side of the plane that drops Davis, Yolei and Cody off reads "Denver Transport Inc" (see screenshot). My, Yolei's 'uncle' will certainly get in trouble for absconding with a company plane just to give his 'niece' a lift. Bah...

As the kids run up to the truck, Cody's voice can be heard saying, "Climb in, it's perfect!" The implication is that Cody is climbing into the truck - but the legs that you can see clambering inside clearly belong to WILLIS! Look at the screenshot!

This is a production question, not an in-show thing, but it really, really gets to me - for all the editing and re-writing done to this part of the movie, can someone PLEASE tell me how stowing away is better than hitch-hiking?

Terriermon is simply standing still beside Willis, but it takes DemiVeemon sniffing around him for anyone to realise that he's a Digimon. What was he supposed to be, an ornament? And aren't Davis and co. being very careless, letting their Digimon just walk and talk around in front of a stranger, given that they do not yet know that this is the kid they're looking for?

Yolei tells Willis that T.K. and Kari are coming from New York, and he immediately comes to the conclusion that they were "the kids behind the fence." That's a bit of a leap of logic.

That's a DAMN quick pizza! From the time Willis hangs up the phone to the time the truck arrives, it's less than *ten seconds.* Perhaps we are to assume that some time has passed, but there's no indication of this. Of course, it's because in the original, Willis wasn't phoning for pizza, he was phoning his mother, and this truck is just picking up the hitch-hiking kids (never mind the fact that originally, the phone scene didn't come until after the truck scene).

Do a quick freeze-frame (or look at the screenshot), and you'll see that the sign Cody is holding up when the "pizza guy" pulls up reads "Summer Memory" - that's the name of Willis's family's "vacation home."

The billboard Davis runs into is for an airline called "North West World Perks." Sounds like an interesting airline, no?

Note that after Veemon crashes into the sign, it's DemiVeemon who's lying on the ground (see screenshot), and yet in a second, he's Veemon again and Digivolves into Flamedramon (without Davis saying "Digi-Armour Energize"). This isn't actually an error (the DemiVeemon part, that is, not the Digi-Armour part...), as it was directly mentioned in dialogue in the Japanese version. There, this scene did not come until after Kokomon (Endigomon) had been sent packing, but when it did, DemiVeemon remarked that he hit the sign so hard he De-Digivolved. However, a little time does pass before he becomes Veemon again to then turn into Raidramon.

When Gargomon delivers a Bunny Pummel upside Kokomon's (Endigomon's) head, Kokomon reels, but then when the angle changes to a frontal view, Kokomon suddenly flies off his feet and crashes through a sign. To put it simply, Kokomon wasn't moving with this much momentum in the previous angle. It may sound little a very little, pissy thing to point out, but when it suddenly jumps from him buckling slightly to him sailing through the air, it just gets to me.

On a personal note (and to anyone who I've confused), I thought for the longest, longest time that Gargomon's attack was "Gargo Cannon" - I don't know why, it's just what I heard in the movie. I'd heard some say that it was "Gargo Pellet," and on listening to the dialogue to examine this, I could certainly here why people thought so - the squeaky, nasal tone employed in the role by Michael Sorich could make it go either way. I was still insistent on the "Cannon," thing, until I looked at Gargomon's D-Terminal entry for the first time not very long ago, and saw that "Gargo Pellet" was indeed listed under his attack techniques (well, "Gargo Pellets," actually, but he only says "Pellet" in the movie). How I must change my ways...

After Kokomon departs, Davis walks forward, nursing his nose, obviously after the collision with the sign. A pity, then, that he wasn't holding, or doing anything to his nose during the fight. But as I said, that's because the sign scene didn't occur in the original until after Kokomon left.

As Willis says... couldn't Veemon have Digivolved to Raidramon and carried them before? I'm especially fond of this line in the dub movie, as it's pointing out a blooper in the original version (read: doing my work for me). ;)

Willis says of Kokomon, "I created him!" To be blunt... no, you did not. Well, sort of. But only in a really round-about way. Willis created the Digi-Egg that would become Diaboromon, but he did not create the original egg that Kokomon and Terriermon came from, nor did he create the virus.

As Willis walks off, a pair of pants can be seen hanging out on the line (screenshot). How long have THOSE been there, given that no-one is actually living there right now?

Willis is hesitant to allow Terriermon to face Kokomon alongside him. Pardon me for breathing, but what did Willis plan to DO without Terriermon? I don't really see him engaging in a gentlemanly bout of fisticuffs with the big hairy grunt.

Veemon, Armadillomon and Hawkmon all Armour Digivolve - without anyone saying "Digi-Armour Energize."

When Veemon Vee-Headbutts Kerpymon (I shall continue to refer to him as such, as that is how I think of him, regardless of what the Frontier dub has named the Digimon), he creates a corona of energy. This has never happened before, and it never happens again after - it's not a special movie thing, either, as he has used the heabutt in the movie before, with no energy effect.

Kerpymon spits a black ball at Terriermon, who jumps over it. However, after Terriermon does so, the angle switches and we see him falling backwards, having been struck. Struck by what? The ball *missed* him...

Angemon and Angewomon are drawn without the studs on the crosses of their helmets (see screenshot). It seems to be a deliberate artistic choice for this movie.

As Angemon uses his staff to block Kerpymon's black balls, he shouts out, "Angel Staff!" Obviously, this is the dub giving a new name to his "Angel Rod" technique - which would be fine, as the 02 dub very often did that with attacks, except he's already called his staff-attack "Angel Rod" in 2.07, "Guardian Angel." Of course, the 02 dub very often screwed up attack names, too...

When the children are regressed into toddlers, by the dub movie's timeframe they are being regressed to the age they were at the time of the Diaboromon scenario - but Yolei's appearance does not match what she looked like at that time. The reason for this, of course, is that in the original version, Kokomon was not taken away from Willis at the time of the Diaboromon battle, but rather at the time of the battle between Greymon and Parrotmon. Hence the kids are being regressed to the ages they were at THAT time, four years younger than the dub has it, which is why Yolei looks different.

It'd be fair to assume that Hawkmon and Armadillomon revert to Poromon and Upamon because of Kerpymon's time reversal, but why are Veemon and Terriermon not affected?

Angewomon IS drawn with the studs on her helmet when she says "We have to stop him!" and she's still got them as she and Angemon fly into the sky before they Digivolve to Mega (screenshot). During her Digivolution, however, the studs are gone again. Angemon is consistently drawn without studs, so I'd be fairly certain that the inclusion of the studs on Angewomon in these two instances is a blooper (possibly the animators were referring to the model sheet used for the series, rather than that created for the movie which lacked the studs).

Angewomon says, "The new Digimon will have to use the power of the Golden Digi-Eggs!" Angemon follows it up with, "Come on, we have to Digivolve to our Mega forms so we can release the Golden Digi-Eggs!" I guess he didn't hear Angewomon say *the same thing*... it's exposition-tastic!

Just before the angels Digivolve, the background jumps.

There's no solid, official statement on where this movie would come if it were in continuity, but we do at least know that it is *somewhere* between 2.11, "Storm of Friendship," and 2.22, "Davis Cries Wolfmon." But, should we assume that it falls before the "Digimon Emperor's Revenge" trilogy, the question is raised of how Davis knows to say "Golden Armour Energize!" instead of the normal "Digi-Armour Energize!" (if it takes place after said trilogy, then one still has to wonder how he knew to say it in those episodes). The reason is that in the original, the activation phrase is the same as it is for the other Digi-Eggs ("Digimental Up!").

When Magnamon uses his first Magna Blast, his right eye is... just not there. There's simply black empty space inside his armour's eye socket. See the screenshot.

When Magnamon and Rapidmon discuss tactics, as Magnamon turns to look at him, for a second a piece of footage from later in the movie is used as a transition. The footage used to bridge the gap is from Magnamon and Rapidmon's debating over what Kokomon wants them to do.

When Rapidmon and Magnamon realise they have to "destroyyyy," Rapidmon shouts out, "Rapid Fire!" but the attack he uses is not the same as the Rapid Fire he used earlier. Before, he fired missiles from the holes in his hands, but here, his hands roll back, and round bombs shoot out of his forearms. Magnamon's Magna Blast is debatable as well, but we don't really see it, just a lightning bolt...

When the crew, restored to their proper ages, are standing in the field after Kokomon deletes, Patamon and Gatomon are missing (see screenshot).

The Japanese DigiDestined accompany Willis back to Manhattan. He is then seen phoning his mother, and informs her that he's "back on the island." And yet, in the background, are... mountains (see screenshot). Yep, good ol' mountainous Manhattan.

At the conclusion of the movie, as Kokomon dances, the scene repeatedly swaps between being coloured like day, night and sunset. It's because all of these things came from different parts of the movie and were cobbled together.

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Thanks go mostly to Marc Levy for supplying all the screenshots that I couldn't find, and for discovering a few other things along the way while he was making them, like the AHCAD sign, and the mismatched clocks. :)