I am here to finally give this movie its long overdue appreciation. It’s truly a work of art that should be studied in film programs across the country. You could spend a whole course dissecting the layers of this movie.

But I’ll limit myself to ten…

1: You Get Three For the Price of One

Now that’s value! Not content with giving us just one story (or even the paltry TWO Pokemon: The First Movie offered a year prior), Digimon: The Movie settles for no less than three plotlines that are all interconnected. It features almost all of the major characters from Digimon seasons one and two, and spans over eight years.

Yeah, what’s up, Boyhood? You ain’t got nothing on Digimon.

Did the kid in that movie fight a giant bird monster when he was six, save the world from a nuclear bomb at 10, and then stop time from being reversed at 14? I think not! And yes, all of those things happen in this movie and it’s just as jaw-dropping as it sounds.

2: The Plot is Insane