Naruto movie!

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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.

Comments

[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.