First off this is not a pokemon clone at all, the concept is much different not to mention it was created in japan before pokemon, it just became available in america a few years after pokemon. In my opinion Digimon is much better than pokemon because you get to see the characters personalities in great depth and i found it very hard not to watch every episode. In fact seasons 1 and 2 i watched every single episode. This movie is the beginning of it all.