Review of Digimon Adventure tri. Loss
I want to preface this briefly talking about my opinion on the last 3 movies leading up to this. This review was written out sort of quick, but I needed to write something about this. There's almost no structure, so excuse the sloppiness. I've been loving every moment of the new Digimon story presented to me. Despite the flaws in the 1st movie, there were a lot of things I loved and the final battle was satisfying on several levels, so I overlooked the problems, since positives from the overall experience outweighed the negatives. 2nd movie had issues, but the movie I enjoyed themost. 3rd movie was just good. I might accidentally continue gushing, so I'll just say I was really excited for the 4th movie to be released.
Maybe all the movies were bad and my nostalgia glasses are just now coming off, but this movie was not fun. I was taken out of this movie on the very first scene, and felt depressed by the time the film finished. I guess I should start with my review, so starting from the beginning
Spoilers Ahead******
Biyomon made no sense. Only digimon to act hostile towards their partner, so the conflict with Sora seemed a little too forced. This attitude isn't consistent with the past, which you could argue resulted from the reboot, but the other 7 digimon are exactly the same.
Sora's personality got nerfed unfortunately, but I guess she shined a little too bright in the original, because she went from badass to boring. I seriously have no idea what's going on with her and Matt (I refuse to call them by their jp names). There was a scene Sora sat by herself all gloomy with Matt and Tai coming out to comfort her at the same time....what? There was pre existing drama here...the movie could've built around a love triangle and it'd make sense on multiple levels, which isn't very original, but better than the biyomon drama we got. I really wish I cared about Sora, but she's far and away the worst in tri, so I can't get invested in 80% of this movie.
A lot of faffing around
Melodrama that's hard to take serious
one dimensional villain with a wonky motive (pretty sure the digi emperor avatar will never get explained )
awkward humor splashed around
the animation isn't very good
OST was always boo boo
retconned dark masters
rules of digiworld post reboot aren't established
plot makes no sense yet
This movie's tone is all over the place
I can appreciate going for a more dark overall tone, but it wouldn't fully commit to it. Problem being it takes away from the goofy, lighthearted feeling from the past. Not dark enough and you're "psychotic" characters come as edgy as best. I couldn't help but think of Jared Leto when gennai tried being a villain.
Maybe this is just me nitpickinh a ton.
My opinion might change later who knows
I don't have a problem with ppl liking this movie
I personally thought it was trash
As somebody who grew up on this and loved the movies prior, I can't help but be disappointed to the point it makes me angry
I'll try and limit my expectations next time.
Epilogue is a massive hate boner I have for that garbage first scene...not necessary to read, but I had to vent this
This opening scene deserves it's own review, and if I ever decide to make a YT channel I will, because nothing about it works. Why was this made made like a silent film? I get the colors, violin, etc are meant to give it a similar feel as a silent film, but why did this even happen? Were the adults digidestined? WTH are they doing there? This looks pretty important, so why hasn't the main cast been told about this? Are the Dark Masters important or just shoehorned into this? This light/dark nonsense sounds like something Nomura would write. Deus Ex Machina to solve conflict and the movie hasn't actually started yet? How are the Dark Masters not just dead? what is even happening right now? This came out of nowhere, no context given, and presented w/o dialogue....Even if this tied to the plot, there are already holes that need to get filled and this is just a confusing mish-mash of nonsense.