Review of Digimon Adventure tri. Loss

Look. At the start of this movie, we are three episodes into this series and the only constants have been bad animation, raising a million questions per film, and not answering any questions. At the very least, the movies before this one had positives like decent character development and some OK action. This movie doesn't. Instead, it doubled down on all those bad aspects. Animation: The *vast majority* of the movie is static shots or one character moving a little bit per cut. This is not film caliber animation. It's barely TV quality. There is a scene at the end where they have like five minutesof b roll digivolutions just to show us a 30 second fight in which none of the Ultimate forms are even spotlighted properly.

Raising Questions: This a fourth movie and they are still introducing us to brand new characters like Hackmon and introducing brand new backstory like Hanekawa's Digimon. And the fact that the Gennai we've seen isn't even the same Gennai from the series. None of this makes sense or has built naturally from previous movies. It's all meaningless if all of this is shown to us without explanations or even reasons why these facts matter.

Not Answering Questions: The *third* movie finally gave us *some* insight into what the overall plot of this series was going to be about. The DigiDestined going to the Digital World to find their Digimon and stop the cause of the Infected Digimon. The Infected Digimon are never mentioned. They find their Digimon immediately. On top of that, none of the new material was properly explained, either. On top of *that*, not much at all happens. They don't even leave the beach and decide what to do for more than the first fourth. On top of THAT, the movie ends IN THE MIDDLE OF A SCENE. There is no sense of purpose or conclusiveness to any of this.

This is the fourth movie in a series. If they couldn't turn those problems around here, they are never going to be able to turn this around. And they didn't. Not only have they produced the worst Digimon tri movie yet, they have produced an insult to all of us who have stuck with the series in spite of its problems.