The Digimon Movie Had A Ska Soundtrack That Still Absolutely Slaps
The Digimon Movie was an enigma when it first released in February 2001. The anime had already become a hit on Fox Kids with Western audiences, so it was only a matter of time until a movie adaptation hit the silver screen with all the expected bombast. Except this film was a little different. Instead of merely dubbing a singular film like Pokemon had done in the past, Digimon instead opted to combine a number of different movies from Japan while seeking to morph them into a single, cohesive storyline. It didn’t really work...
Three short films are used - Digimon Adventure: Our War Game, Digimon Adventure 2: Digimon Hurricane Landing, and Transcendent Evolution: The Golden Digimentals. The dubbing introduced a number of massive changes in tone, writing, dialogue, structure, and was a bit of a mess - yet the film still has a nostalgic place in my heart because it was so wonderfully absurd. It doesn’t make sense, but you didn’t care as a kid and put aside the rapidly changing animation styles and character introductions just so you could have a good time. Anime isn’t treated like this anymore, and that truth is oddly bittersweet.
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One part of this film that has aged better than anything else is the incredible soundtrack. I don’t know who decided that The Digimon Movie needed to have a score almost entirely dedicated to ska, but I want to shake their hand and take them to dinner. I can imagine the boardroom meeting where some dude put on One Week from Barenaked Ladies, and they all just nodded in unison at the magical discovery they’d just made. When I think of befriending creatures in a digital realm I also think of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - it’s a
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