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9/10
Movie wants to say something...
ssonitube27 June 2020
Digimon Series have always touched hearts and gave a new understanding of life. The last evolution gives ideas of human evolution in life and future of digimons. The story could have been little more extending, felt like a short version of full movie. Nevertheless, the feel was still same. I loved the franchise always. This movie is more about the humans and the future they hold with their partners.Animation, Soundtrack, Music awesome as always.

Story line could have made use of all characters, missed there a bit compared to earlier movies.I enjoyed how it ends, sad and happy both, however, it shows the reality of life and tells us about limitless human potential
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8/10
This is for the Chosen Children who grew up with Digimon Adventure
wendywongyoongjoe5 November 2020
As a Digimon fan who was sorely disappointed with the Adventure Tri movie series, I was reluctant to watch Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna. ("Kizuna") However, the Kizuna trailer convinced me to watch the movie. Older Digimon fans should not miss Kizuna, for I think this movie was targeting us.

Personally, it was an overwhelming emotional roller coaster ride from start to end. At certain points of the movie, I could resonate with the feelings joy and sorrow of Taichi & Yamato, especially the parts on growing up and moving forward in life. Digimon has always featured some difficult questions that children face, while providing some moral values as guidance.

The producers of Digimon obviously learned from its mistakes in Adventure Tri. Elements which were essential to Digimon fans from the Digimon Adventure series and the first movie are abundant in Kizuna. The main plot in Kizuna is simple and despite some shortcomings, manages to keep its focus on a few crucial themes.

Having little expectations for this movie helps, as it allows us to finally have a nice closure for Digimon Adventure.
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9/10
A heart wrenching statement on growing up
commandoclause17 October 2020
I have to say, when you say "Digimon" people's first thought isn't a serious well crafted story with a huge statement to be made. I was obsessed with digimon so this maybe why the ending was so tragic for me, but it almost brought me to tears.

A great Statement on the struggles of wanting to stay an ignorant child with your friends and growing up to make something of yourself.
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9/10
Beautiful Ending
beefirst0121 July 2020
This Anime grow together with our, Being adult is not easy but It make our know the childhood moment have meaning.
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9/10
Everything Has an End
midorikawa-074975 September 2020
I grew up with this anime series and I am a kind of surprised about the opening song. The story is light, simple, yet touching, that makes me feel like 'I watched it as a kid that I used to be'. It really brings back memories. If you're not a fan of Digimon series, you probably find this movie just ordinary. Let this movie be last of Digimon Adventure
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10/10
The Finale of my childhood!
finaldestination-g24 September 2020
Oh man, from where to start! I am now an adult and I used to watch Digimon when I was in my early teen years. This movie is a perfectly done finale for that era, the music, the evolution sequences, the cinematography! I am very very very biased to Digimon and this movie is perfect, I cried alot around the end of the movie. If you loved the original series you will love this movie!

The only thing I would've loved to see is more of Angemon/Angewomon and their evolutions but that's okay! We can't have Angemon the hero every time :) but loved that it was the first Digimon to grace the screen in this movie.
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10/10
A beautiful parting gift for the fans of Digimon Adventure
awfulketchup27 November 2020
It's hard to face reality in which you live, if you're a grown up person who has lived through the late 90's. or if you're a fan of the older Digimon series, you'll understand the gut wrenching pain of departing from something that you've grown to adore. With that said, Last Evolution Kizuna is the real ending for the Adventure franchise, it offers not only some of the best character development, animations, fight scenes and themes which I've I frankly never seen as heavily explored in this franchise, but we also get a more compelling antagonist with ideals that come from a genuine place, which makes you as the viewer conflicted about your choices.

This makes up for the Tri movies that came before it, I'm probably biased, but my nostalgia alone couldn't let me ignore the multitude of issues those films had, this one however, hits home, all the way to the core. This is for the fans, And I enjoyed it!
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5/10
A Repeated Ending for the Original Digimon Adventure Series
khoatd251123 June 2020
The plot was easy to follow, but did not have any breakthrough in comparison to other Digimon Adventure Movies and TV Shows. The same motif with Digimon Adventure: Tri. about growing up and the relationship with their digimon, but the ending in Last Evolution did not make sense with the ending in DIgimon Adventure 02 which was supposed to be taken place in the far further. I wish I could see any excited moments from the last Digimon Adventure Movie, aside from the lame emotion between human and digimon.

The soundtrack was good. Some reminded me to the old song in Digimon Adventure 02 and the second Digimon Movie. The action and animation were fine. Sadly, the producer was so lazy when reusing the old evolution scene from Digimon Adventure 01 with a little modification.

This movie is good for Digimon fans to watch but do not put too much expectation for this movie.
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10/10
An absolute must watch if you grew up with the show
dominicbarrieau23 December 2020
Aw man, I grew up watching Digimon, it always interested me more than Pokemon, every so often I would rewatch the various series and movies. All in all, Digimon played a massive role in my life. This movie was absolutely amazing. An absolute love letter to all the fans of the series, with many cameos and references that brought tears to my eyes. On that note, make sure you have tissues nearby if you love Digimon, as the movie is gut-wrenching, but in the best way possible. While there are some small things I could nitpick, it still wouldn't lower the score I gave. Please watch this if you love Digimon.
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8/10
Hardly to move on from childhood's memories.
ahmedenial9 July 2021
When you grown up, you will leave memory behind either it was good or bad. Sad thing you could never meet it again. Some passed away, some just wanted to be forgotten.
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10/10
Amazing.
emanuel_w14 January 2022
Anything a true Digimon fan could ask for. Personally, I think the last 5-10 seconds of the movie kind of destroyed my feelings but besides that absolutely stunning. I grew up with Digimon and this movie sums up everything. Beautiful, sad and tragic. Thank you for this experience!
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8/10
The battle we all fight
tomerkh3 October 2020
Ask me how to create a good story, and I'll tell you create a Protagonist I can relate to. Ask me how to create a great one and I'll say, make sure I can relate to the Advisory too. This movie has this amazing element. Although it's not an easy task to create an Advisory people can relate too. As oppose to other "enemies" in the previous movies / TV series who were in fact bad entities, this movie does not have any "bad guy". Oh yes, there are fights. But the greatest fight is within the audience, who must fight the question is what the advisory attempt to accomplish is really bad? Had I have the option to do the same, would I act differently. (I still not sure I have the answer).

As for the rest of the movie, as oppose to Adventure Tri, I think 90% of the movie contained an interesting events, or a build up to a conflict. I enjoyed watching it, and that what I did. I didn't feel an urge of checking my phone or fast forward.

It's nice to see the heroes you grew up with straggling the same issues you straggle now, well maybe not exactly the same things... It reminds my a little bit the Pixar movie Inside Out, where they objectify the feeling and thoughts into physical beings. This movie did the same with the tools, the people and the relations that were craft for 20 years, and the result is great.

Bottom line, if you watch it, you'll enjoy it (assuming you are 15+ years old so you can relate to the characters). If you know the backstory of Season 01 you will really enjoy it. (the last episode of season 2 is also worth watching before heading to the movie, but it's not mandatory).

The only thing that bothered me however, was the post ending. The ending was fantastic, amazing a seething emotions were outburst, but then there was another scene which the only purpose (I think) was not to leave the audience with such a bidder taste. I saw a similar thing in the movie Your Name movie where there was an additional scene to give a little bit of hope to the audience. I really don't like this, I want a story to make me feel strong feelings. Even if they are not happy feelings, it's better than shutting me down.

Please don't let this last comment discourage you from watching this movie. It's really good, just stop in the ending (it's very obvious when the movie really ends).
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5/10
A shallow ending with pale colors
alexglimbergwindh20 October 2020
What i liked about it Voice actors most of them at lest Sound effects Fluid animation

Disliked Soundtrack- im sure the people who loves japanese music will be in love with the soundtrack but if you grew up with the english version you'll miss the badass music.

Very pale, literally, they forgot to put som popping colors in this film for some reason. It looks like the sun is shining on it and really bad. Which is sad considering the good action they managed to animate

The style is debatable and i prefer the original tv show but it is not bad.

I hope for a remake
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8/10
BITTERSWEET.
andrewchristianjr9 December 2020
A bittersweet but awesome ending to the original series. It really captured that feeling of youth and the bond the digidestined had with their partners.
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10/10
Perfect Ending to a Beautiful Franchsie
whatshouldicallthis1 December 2020
This movie is the perfect sendoff to Digimon.

It is both sad yet amazing.I don't think fans will be disappointed unless you really stan the other characters.So this movie is essentially Tai and Matt.Joe,Mimi,and Sora all have like 2 lines.Kari had like 3 while TK had like 5 and Izzy I think had around 9, more than the rest.I think even the 02 kids had more lines....Agumon and Gabumon had more lines.

I think this movie was amazing in a way it was what tri tried(you'll never know if the pun was intended) to do.The movie is all about growing up and letting go facing reality.The callbacks are incredibly nostalgic and the music is on parr makes me want to buy the CD...

Honestly I don't have any complaints about this movie.All good things must come to an end and I'm glad to have been able to be with this franchise.

Is this biased....absolutely

A normal person who has never seen Digimon would not get all the wonderful references this movie packs in an hour and 34 minutes, but the fans definitely will.It is a love letter to the franchise and the fans.An excellent sendoff to an excellent franchise.

Have fun.
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10/10
The perfect send-off for the original characters
numeroperdido20 December 2020
Simple, yet engaging story. Some elements are clearly recycle from other entries in the series, but it works. The characters grew up up along side the viewers, with is extremely rare in this type o franchise, showing how strong the themes and characters were to begin with. Sad, the the themes of this movies are undermined by the 2020 Digimon series. But h=hey, just like the Last Evolution told us, you can't always get what you want and must always keep moving forward.
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10/10
Time machine
thekinghussienone4 January 2021
I am now 24 years old, really, it was a fun journey since childhood with the adventures of the Digimon, it had such a great impact on my life that I studied software engineering because of this series This movie was a time machine that brought me back to my beautiful childhood I was sad at the end and was about to cry Yes, I am 24 and it brought me back to childhood
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8/10
Keep to Evolve!
FelNetti9620 December 2021
The long awaited epilogue of my childhood anime, probably the first one I followed with frequency and attention, ending up being involved in every aspect of it.

And luckily I was not disappointed.

The film presents itself as the right conclusion of the series, which began 20 years ago but without really leaving us, and the feeling you get by watching it is that the characters have never abandoned us, sharing our growth path.

And in fact I, as certainly others, have seen myself in the uncertainties of the protagonists, perceiving that unconscious refusal to want to grow up, to face the maturity of adulthood and leave behind my more carefree and youthful side, which is still strongly present in me. But like them, I am also perfectly aware of the need to move forward, without fear and to continue carrying out my project to become older and more complete as a person.

A tribute to the need of going on and to the childhood that formed us, and which will always find us ready even in the face of our latest evolution!
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2/10
A Not So Good Conclusion
ryanperez-199921 June 2021
I loved Digimon since I was 12 and I was definitely excited about this movie. After "Adventure tri" started out strong but went totally sideways in the last three movies, I was hoping "Last Evolution" was going to be great. Unfortunately, it wasn't. Sure it was action packed, funny and heartfelt but there so many plot holes. Like, how did the kids' phones become their Digivices and how come Tai, Matt and Sora were the only one who get lose their Digimon while the others kept theirs? But the worst thing is they bring back the team from season 2 which had me pumped because they're my favorite Digidestined team but they shoehorned them in the movie and didn't even join the fight. So, that was cold. It's supposed to be a conclusion to both seasons 1 and 2 but it felt wasted. I don't know how the director compared it to "Toy Story 3" which that was satisfying. This wasn't. I like to think "A Million Points of Lights" from season 2 is the real conclusion. The franchise needs something really awesome to get their popularity back because this was disappointing.
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8/10
A happyish ending
Emrys_Lee7 January 2022
After the normal Digimon Adventure tri. This one's plot still too sample but full of emotion, and bought some deep thoughts about growing pain and death.
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