Naruto: Shippuuden Movie 1

The best Naruto film so far, but not by far.

This film follows the formula of the escort mission, but actually follows through and doesn't evolve into something else.

Although the priestess had the stereotypical spoiled and bratty attitude, she got a decent amount of screentime and dialogue. She wasn't completely helpless and had somewhere important to be and the shinobi were there to ensure that happened. I thought her character design was similar to Hinata.

I struggled to understand her powers and relationship to the demon. Is the demon her father? Is her mother inside it? Does she even have powers or does it all come from ... that bell? The film didn't do a good job explaining the priestess's powers or her lineage. Why does she have such loyal followers, what does she do for them? What was with that magical girl change?

This film had much more action than the previous ones. There wasn't anything particularly flashy about the fights but it kind of reminded me of when Sasuke was being taken by Orochimaru's goons in that big basket and they fought in the forest.

There was more comedy in the film than usual. I'm not a fan of Sakura's threats as comedic relief. There was no reason for the goofy bits really.

Once again, a special movie-exclusive rasengan is born.

The ending was pretty abrupt and didn't have a satisfying pay off. They did their job and everyone's happy, but I'd like a little more closure. It went immediately from bad guy defeated, credits.

Naruto shouldn't be making empty promises to be a baby daddy.

This is an unprofessional review.

The story is obviously cliche but it's my type of cliche and I enjoyed it a lot.

Great art style as expected from the movie.

The villains are very skilled. I love their fight scene.

I rate it based on how enjoyed I am, not how good it is. I don't recommend this cuz it's not cannon unless you wanna kill some time and a hardcore fan. But, the ending was worth it, it's even in a meme I've seen before. That's it, hope this review is useful.

Why do we need 100 words for a review? Give me a break.

Take everything you disliked in the previous Part 1 movies and condense them into one film with absolutely ZERO redeeming factors, mix it together with uninspired anime original designs and lowkey the main cast acting out of character and you'll get Gekijouban Naruto Shippuuden.

Why did THIS script have to be made into a movie? Seriously this might as well be just another filler arc where they once again introduce some village we have never heard of before in a region we don't care about and with characters that no one gives a crap about.

What especially pissed off that they didn't even bother with a ... new setting. Oh wow, a massive forest and rock road! Never seen that one before. The Part 1 movies at least bothered to put our characters in different places that we haven't seen them in before.

Naruto and Sakura acted more like exaggerated caricatures of themselves, seriously wtf. Naruto may be brash and goofy but he's not this fucking stupid and Sakura may be bitchy and violent but she wouldn't just laugh at the idea of someone 100% dying in the future. I don't understand why Neji is here, Lee got all the cool moments whereas Neji is just kind of standing around and looking pretty. He has his short bits here and there but goddamn out of everyone he had the least amount of screentime.

Shion fucking sucks, I don't care what anyone says. Up until now we've had this same spiel over and over. The princess, the knight and the prince, all of them had the exact same shit going on. She starts off as really cold and mean, suddenly Naruto shows up and slowly warms her heart, then we find out she's actually got baggage which is why she's such an asshole to everyone, and then everything is fixed in the end thanks to Naruto as usual.

Now what's the difference here, what makes her so much worse than the rest? She is genuinely just a worse version of Koyuki. Her backstory is not as engaging in comparison with Koyuki and her personality is too bland for you to invest in her bullshit in the first place. Shion's crabby attitude towards everyone was not charming in the slightest and I didn't feel anything for her at the end.

Gekijouban Shippuuden is just a standard filler arc brough to the big screen, not reccomended.