This is Naruto Shippuuden's 5th movie - i know I've seen all of the 4 but i barely remember what those were about... so i did not really have any high expectations for this one... but surprisingly, for me, this was really good...
Story, Art, Sound and Character would be a 7... but (my) Enjoyment and Overall score is an 8...
Story-wise there is really nothing new... Naruto gets thrown to prison since he was framed... he gets to meet the evil head of the facility (Mui)... he makes new friends while in prison... he gets to be his awesome self and then try to save the day... typical Naruto arc, really... i must admit that at first i kinda got sleepy with all the talking going on... but then again, maybe i was just tired... anyway, once the story progressed, it got rather interesting... though there was 1 part where i was like 'oh okay, whatever'...
Art was same... if not kinda lazily drawn in some parts... i just noticed that Naruto had those 'chibi' moments... well, not bad and it's actually cute/funny... Sound was okay, since the only new thing for me will be the ending theme... w/c did not really strike my fancy...
Character development... hmmm... now, Naruto really took the spotlight this time... i mean, the other casts only got their screentime at the beginning and at the end of the movie... and the movie was an hour and forty-two minutes long!! i'm gonna be bias and say that i still love Naruto! nice job, kiddo! Mui was an annoying villain at first but i liked him in the end (so sad), the ANBU girl, Ryuzetsu, was okay... with her flashback, i already had an idea on what will happen in the end... Muku reminded me of Sasuke with his white skin and spikey hair... then there's Satori who in turn reminded me of Ryuk from DN...
Overall is an 8 since i thoroughly enjoyed the fight scenes... i guess i'm still not used to Naruto's sennin mode and the rasen shuriken... the action really saved this movie from being a total bore...
For me, this was the most entertaining/balanced NS movie... maybe because they were not really trying too hard? there was just a simple flow of the story - there were funny scenes, touching moments and exhilarating action - just the way i like my anime... :)
