I finally watched Last Evolution. I went with the dub just because, which is kinda sad in of itself given how many dub actors couldn't come back for what may have been the final time to voice these characters thanks to the lockdowns. Brian Donovan not being able to be Davis was a tragedy in of itself because of a faulty home studio, so had he made it, I would've probably squeed over Davis out of everyone in the cast. The seasoned voice-actors are still amazing (although Kirk Thornton might've forgotten how to voice Gabumon, but I dunno), but the new ones were pretty rough. Think out of the new ones, Erika Harlacher as Menoa was the best, heck, Menoa was a pretty neat character in her own right, very sympathetic. Made for an interesting conflict, too, one that I think needed to have been touched upon proper in the series but (understandably) had no room for in the TV series. Which brings up a question when it comes to Oikawa: Since he was a DigiDestined but couldn't meet his Digimon, even though he grew up, did he actually not truly grow up and held on to that potential/childlike mindset? His Digimon partner didn't vanish despite being an adult, but is that only because they never got to have that bond?
In fact, outside of the shaky third act asspull(?) that occurred and Sora's unbelievable absence (like bruh), there's not a lot I had issue with about the movie. It was beautifully animated and had nice cinematography, the reprised soundtrack was sweetly nostalgic (bonus saxophone! Finally!), and the characters didn't look stilted and had actual expressiveness, kinda reminiscent of Mamoru Hosoda's direction. The film really just ended up further vindicating my belief that Digimon Tri was extremely pointless (outside of a Meiko cameo, nothing from Tri came back into play meaning you can literally skip those movies) and therefore Keitarou Motonaga can go fuck himself as a result. This was the movie that fans were waiting for in terms of DigiDestined growing up. We didn't have to go through six subpar movies of questionable quality, it was a cohesive, self-contained story in a 90-minute film that didn't go overboard with fanservice, what little there was.
Also blood. Oh my God characters actually bled this time around. Kinda just wanted to bring that up since that was a secret wish of mine when it came to a more mature Digimon movie.
So yeah, 8-outta-10, would buy. Really wish I could've seen it in theaters, actually.