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It's been a while since I saw this, but from what I remember:

The songs are ham-fisted character exposition played over fight scenes. Most of the songs are musically good, though, and they're probably better if you can actually read them.

At this point, the series wasn't cripplingly authoritarian, but it still had sparks of it.

The climax was probably the worst thing story-wise; the main antagonist is simply declared a would-be dictator, and it turns out she or her daughter could have destroyed the moon at any time. Is is brainwashing them?
Fair enough if Chris didn't like being electrocuted, though.

It's a normal ecchi, complete with everyone being adverse to the ecchi, and the few exceptions getting screwed over without exception.

It also references Kamen Rider enough to be spoilers in many cases.

The art is surprisingly OK, not really good, but not really bad, either.

Many of the characters resemble various Kamen Riders, but with erotic twists. Often, those traits are a source of ridicule, giving most of the cast roughly the role of Akiko Narumi.

If you must read this, first watch all of Kamen Rider up to Zi-O, then watch it in tandem with Tropical-Rouge Precure.

There are some interesting powers (one of the few original-ish things ... in this series).

Heavy spoiler warning.

There's only one big problem with this film. Sadly, it's a very big one.

While The main protagonists refer to Neverland as "an old memory", it appears in practice to be a (very real) literal eternity of happiness, barring the next crisis, that admittedly might happen, disrupting it (though there's still an army of Eosmon to work with for dealing with that).

While kidnapping people is bad, Menoa was kind of in the position of stopping someone from committing suicide, and she clearly reached out to some of them (even that one girl was on her phone when she collapsed, interesting given that is implied ... to be Eosmon's normal method of transportation).

My problem, of course, is that Taichi and the others are not only the villains of this film, but frequently oblivious assholes, mainly to an antagonist who did nothing wrong.

Growing up is fine, but is it worth it if you don't have what you really want? I think not. But they don't even act like there's an alternative (admittedly, they don't know about it until they do, but then they do).

Some smaller things (good and bad, but mostly bad):
The final forms of Agumon and Gabumon are based on different stages. Why is that?

Menoa is supposed to be American, but her flashback(s) near the end show her and Morphomon speaking Japanese.

My unreliable sources tell me that Menoa was meant to be sympathetic, to contrast the pure evil antagonists of Adventure classic. If so, they went to far, and ironically repeated something from Digimon Adventure (if anyone remembers the Gekomon arc).

Eosmon bears similarities to Gizumon, which is funny because they can be considered Digimon savers.

Hikari's old attire was a clever way to bring the whistle into the scene, but blowing it working is even worse than miracle lights powered by the audience. Okay, it might not be that bad.