Naruto movie!

[timepiececlock]

Overall I liked it.


03:00 - heheh. They snuck into a theater and watched from the ceiling. Upside down. So Naruto's movie hero/idol is a warrior ninja princess with a thing for rainbows? That's so adorable. ::hugs Naruto::
07:09 - Nice ninja-chop, Sasuke. Man, I miss the old days like this when you annoying but still kind of cool. Before you became a little shithead.
12:10 - It's nice to see Sakura getting hearts in her eyes over someone other than Sasuke, even if it is an actor who's probably as old or older than Kakashi.
14:12 - Naruto, autograph-seeker by day, hanging cave bat by night.
18:11 - They're kidnapping her? To force her to play the movie part? ... Okay, what kind of fucked up showbiz industry is Konoha running? Don't they have anti-kidnapping laws in Fire Country?
27:00 - Sakura, why are you standing there uselessly as the guy runs at you? Stop being useless!
27:20 - Ahhh, Naruto, you went all Kyubi-eyed to protect your two princesses, huh?
28:45 - Sasuke, you should have learned after several seasons that that wire & flame combination trap is never going to work.
30:00 - Humpback whales! With narwhal horns!
31:00 - back in the bed again. Maybe someone can convince the princess that the whole thing since she woke up last time was a drunken hallucination. Unicorn whales? She must have been wasted.
31:04 - Aaaaaaaaand Kakashi's standing near her bed while she sleeps. -10 points for kind of creepy.
33:15 - YOUNG KAKASHI! ::fangirls:: And look, he has silly hair when he was 16, too. That's so cute.
34:40 - You know, I can understand the assistant-director's indignation at being dragged off to an arctic wasteland for something that wasn't even a real job, just some dude's rebel political agenda.
42:00 - "Train? What's a train?" ...Naruto, I love you.
45:30 - ...and so Narutoverse invents projectile weapons. It's all downhill from there, folks.
47:00 - Naruto and Sakura look out on a field of bodies. Guess what, guys, war sucks! And hey, look, you're ninjas!
52:13 - Guinea pig? No, no guinea pig-making of Naruto! No!

End - Um, what? It's a generator? And... a terraforming machine? And... a hologram projector? ...That's one multi-tasking treasure. I bet Microsoft invented it.

Hm. A decent anime film. Not perfect, but interesting all the way through, with some good moments (Naruto in the cell), and lovely animation. It certainly was miles better than the first IY movie (I only had to see the first one to know I didn't want to see any others.) Ultimately I wish they could have a plot more focused on Konoha village characters, but it was a good movie.

Regarding Kakashi flashbacks, though... SO. ROBBED. Damn them for misleading trailers. I swear he had dialogue in the trailers that wasn't even IN the frelling movie. Grrrrr.

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[duelingrose.livejournal.com]

Regarding Kakashi flashbacks, though... SO. ROBBED. Damn them for misleading trailers. I swear he had dialogue in the trailers that wasn't even IN the frelling movie. Grrrrr.

Probably got cut out... or changed.

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

End - Um, what? It's a generator? And... a terraforming machine?

How long did it take you to figure out that's what the "treasure" was? I sorted it about halfway, through. I thought, "The pendant is the 'key' to some kind of generator that'll melt the snow and ice and make it Springtime in Snow Country!" 45 minutes later, well, yeah. I didn't call the holographic projector bit, though. Damn.

Regarding Kakashi flashbacks, though... SO. ROBBED. Damn them for misleading trailers. I swear he had dialogue in the trailers that wasn't even IN the frelling movie. Grrrrr.

I savored what I got. ::savors::

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

How long did it take you to figure out that's what the "treasure" was?

That wasn't meant to sound bitchy. I meant to say, "Did you figure it out halfway through, as I did?" Yeah. That's it.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

My ending comment of my review was more a comment on the fact that it apparently was so interestingly multifunctional than surprise at the outcome. When they were talking about the treasure in the zepplin I had to thoughts, that it was the weapon like he thought and that the late king had done his best to hide it because he didn't seem the conquering type, or that it was something to do with the climate. Actually, it seems to be more terraforming whereas my original guess was more like the generator idea. I thought that maybe it was working and keeping their culture able to survive in the cold arctic but it was lost with the regime change and that's why they talked about it being a very poor country-- that maybe after they lost their main way of fighting off the cold, that they became destitute.

Then somewhere later along the line I sort of amended that to figure maybe it was something more literal, that would actually bring "spring", but I didn't like that idea because my logic-burdened brain went places like "But what happens to the climate balance of the planet if you melt the polar ice caps and make it sunny? Huh? Thought about that?"

Clearly they didn't. Or not very hard.

Still, that's a level of sillyness I can handle from Naruto. I'm not watching it because the show's realistic.

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

Then somewhere later along the line I sort of amended that to figure maybe it was something more literal, that would actually bring "spring", but I didn't like that idea because my logic-burdened brain went places like "But what happens to the climate balance of the planet if you melt the polar ice caps and make it sunny? Huh? Thought about that?"

I thought the same thing, about the change in the climate because of the sudden influx of water in the world's oceans, etc. Then I thought, "Hey ... what a great place for raskaha to set her Waterworld ninja pirate story! There's the explanation she needs for why it happened!" Imagine the angst you could churn out of that one with the three kids. Not as though Sasuke needs any more of a reason to angst but still.

Some of the people discussing this movie are saying that Snow Country had shinobi. That's not the way I understood it. They were essentially mercenaries, weren't they? I remember them specifically saying that what's his face hired ninja to overthrow the king. There's a person over at chuunin referring the the Princess as the Yumikage or some nonsense. There is no Kage for Snow Country, like there isn't for Wave Country, as they don't have ninja or a Hidden Village. Why the hell else would the rebels just charge at the Gatling Gun Train with spears?

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I took the "hired" line at face value. I never even thought they had shinobi-- just that the shinobi the guy hired seemed to have adapted their ninja skills to the environment. Which, if you're gonna spend 10+ years there, makes sense.

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's how I meant it. He hired them from another area. I think I made a similar comment in my own review about them adapting their Jutsus to their surroundings. I was tired as hell when I wrote it, so I can't remember what was in it.