Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning - 3.5~4/10
I walked into this movie having high expectations for its action scenes given that it was said by the producers that it had a bigger budget for action scenes than Last Evolution Kizuna did, only to be largely disappointed. The entire first half to 75% of the movie consists essentially of one large exposition scene and while somewhat understandably due to their lack of Digimon partners, the original generation of Digidestined are essentially reduced to one cameo from Taichi and one mention of Koshiro which kind of blows with the limited scale of action scenes that are in the movie. Additionally I could see from a mile away that Angewomon would get cucked in favor of Silphymon, but after they tossed new Agumon/Gabumon and Omegamon variants like candy in the previous flicks/entries in the franchise like tri. and LEK, it's honestly disappointing to not see any new evolutions from the 02 cast, not even Silphymon and Shakkoumon's Mega forms which would've made the action scenes less boring.
The animation is otherwise quite good (albeit, the sleek 2.5D evolution sequences look a little wooden/like video games) and while predictable, Lui's character development is at least fleshed out. It's not enough to save the movie though, and considering that we STILL haven't seen Agumon and the others return to Taichi and co., I can bet we'll get yet another Adventure movie announced by next year under the pretense of tying up loose ends. *sigh*