Naruto Soyokazeden Movie: Naruto to Mashin to Mitsu no Onegai Dattebayo!!

This Naruto short is strikingly gorgeous when you look at the visual quality, and the story is, though largely predictable, captivating. The makers have pulled off an Aladdin twist on Naruto this time and have largely succeeded. A lot of things about the story are predictable, but in a good way instead. There's a lot of cool action and comedy throughout. No drama. Just 14 minutes of typical Naruto fun. Even though you might be familiar with the genie concept, it still keeps you engaged amidst fast-paced chasing action to find out what wish is exactly fulfilled in the end. It truly is worth it.

It's nice to have a little special in the original Naruto anime now and then. This one had a nice ring to it. I find the genie concept really humurous. This special is almost equivalent to the holy grail war from the Fate/Stay Night series only with Naruto characters. We see a little bit of character development behind the characters here (i.e. What they wish for). The subtitles were poorly edited but even if it had subtle subtitles, the results of this review would be the same. The results of this review: The special was phenomonal!

Specials come in all shapes and forces, but definitely not in form of movies. Correction: this is NOT a movie.

This episode could have easily passed as one of the filler episodes, I still don't see its co-relation to the fifth movie but there you go, a Genie wakes up and all the kids wreak havoc to make their own personal wish, it really does remind you of how clumsy Sasuke once was, makes you kinda miss him when it was all fun and play, an, of course, some Kakashi fun into the mix as well, it can never go wrong.

Honestly, I don't see anyone watching ... this outside of nostalgia for the old OG Naruto days.