If you thought “Pokémon: The First Movie” was bad, wait until you see “Digimon: The Movie”; this is anime at its worst. This could have been an intriguing movie for children about monsters in a digital universe but it’s just a messy clone of various other anime shows.

The plot is all over the places as the film features three separate stories, that all take place years apart and have different settings. The plot is basically just “Pokémon” with computers as a bunch of kids battle evil Digimon with their good Digimon in a bid to save the planet’s technology. This is a dull plot and all of the three stories rehash this same concept with very little difference.

The characters are really dull. I didn’t expect much though as this is very similar to “Pokémon” and as you all know I wasn’t impressed as far as their characters were concerned. The worst thing is that there is no real development as after a little bit it changes to the next story. This is a bad concept and makes your connection with the characters excessively weak as this is a short film anyway so each story isn’t very long. I hate to say it but I found the characters in “Pokémon” more exciting.

The action scenes are really dull; they even make a rabbit with machineguns for hands boring. The “Digimon” theme plays enough to make you sick and there is too much popular yet random music used as well, I don’t see why they couldn’t have done some new music for the film. This will probably entertain fans of the show but for anyone else, this is a bland anime film that will make your relationship with anime a bit ‘shaky’ for a while. Kids are more likely to enjoy “Pokémon” than this.