Naruto Movie 3: Dai Koufun! Mikazuki Jima no Animaru Panic Dattebayo!

The Naruto movies aren't anything amazing but they're still somewhat enjoyable. That being said Naruto is one of my favorite anime but even so, i'm gonna give this an honest unbiased review. It's a typical predictable plot with some forgettable characters but plenty of action to enjoy.

Story (6). All of the Naruto movies fall into the same trap, they have a predictable/average plot. Now I wanna say first of all i don't think it's not good just because it's not apart of the main story, for the most part I like filler. However this story didn't deliver anything I haven't seen before. I was actually ... laughing at some points because I was easily able to predict what was going to happen next. One of the characters was typical as well. I didn't necessarily think the story was bad but obviously it wasn't anything special. It was functional and it had a bit of an unexpected little turn at the very end. The end itself was in typical Naruto fashion so if you're a fan as I am you'll appreciate it. There was one scene concerning the Prince and his wife that happened and usually this plot point would've been revisited at some point toward the end. For some reason they did this scene and that was it, they never came back to it. It was probably made to show more emotion within one of the characters but it didn't make me care anymore than I did already so I still don't see the point of it.

Art (8) The animation was actually very good this being a movie (which usually have better animation than the anime). The characters moved very fluently and the action scenes all looked well done. The environments looked pretty good, just overall it was consistantly pretty throughout. I think this is one of the best qualities of the movie compared to the story and characters.

Sound (7) The soundtrack wasn't that relevant, there weren't too many occasions where the music was played but for what it was I liked the songs when they did play them. A classic OST track was added as well at the end with a slight remix to it which was a nice touch. The outro song/montage was nice as well and I actually liked it. As usual, the general sounds were crisp and clean and nothing bothered me. For the most part everything did what it had to do.

Characters (6). I gave the characters a 6 because watchers of the anime already know Naruto, Sakura, Kakashi and Rock Lee...so there's nothing new there and I didn't base the grade on them. The characters they introduced weren't special, forgettable as usual but functional as usual too. The kid I guess would be the "main" character out of the new characters. He came off as very predictable and uninteresting to me, i knew right away he was going to be a bratty scared kid in the beginning and then upon meeting Naruto he changes into a nicer more confident person. The prince (fat guy) was a bit funny to me, he wasn't anything special but worked and didn't really annoy me. The main antagonist though quite possibly has the worst name in Naruto history, i'm not gonna say it i'll leave it up to whoever watches it to see it for yourselves. There were some shinobi involved and they were over confident and weak as usual. They had a cool power but that couldn't convince me Kakashi, Naruto and Lee would lose to them...not by a long shot. The villian from the last movie was alot better in my opinion these villians weren't really good at all. The only thing they were there for was to be fought by Kakashi's team. Watching Lee fight was very entertaining though, and there was a very cool fight scene towards the end involving circus animals and kakashi. They did do a disservice by killing off a few supporting characters that seemed to be cool pretty early on and that was a bit dissapointing.

Enjoymet (7) Like i said earlier i am a Naruto fan after all so in no way did i dislike this movie. In all honesty though I didn't exactly have the same experiance as i did with the regular anime. There were cool action sequences mostly envolving the ending that was nice. The beginning was a bit slow and boring but more towards the middle is when things picked up so I wasn't uninterested. Basically I don't regret watching this at all, but I don't plan on rewatching any time soon really.

Overall this is a decent watch. If you're a fan of Naruto you're gonna probably watch this anyway. If you don't like Naruto I don't see why you'd watch this. Finally if you don't like filler it's up to you whether or not you want to pass this up. Like i said, if you like the show it's not a bad watch. The movie has it's moments and it's not at all terrible, That's about it.

I know this was long and i apologize but if you agreed give my review a thumbs up, hope this helped (:

The plot was mediocre at best... the ending being total trash and illogical... but there are a lot of redeeming qualities to this movie. The art was fantastic and the soundtrack was classic Naruto. I felt a little betrayed by Naruto's attitude toward the beginning of the movie. He was not acting the way that Naruto normally does... he was bullying a CHILD. I don't understand why the writers would allow that. After everything Naruto has been through, I feel like he would be the first person to reach out to Hikaru to try and make him feel better. So, I mean, it was an ... ok movie... but nothing special. I definitely wouldn't watch it again unless I was showing it to someone.

Pretty solid. In terms of quality its almost identical to the previous two movies. There were some really gorgeous shots though, which surprised me. Again, the fact that this is pretty much just three or four episodes of the show combined slightly disappoints me. These movies could be an outlet for the show to do something a little different with the characters and story, yet they just resort to copying the formula of the show, (not that the show is bad).

One thing I've noticed in the show and these movies is that whenever any of the teams goes out on a mission that's mainly focused ... on new characters outside the Leaf Village, I really have a hard time caring. It's the adventures that take place in the village or have serious implications to the characters of the Leaf Village that are most engaging and interesting. I have a vested interest in these characters, so to see them threatened on their home field is much more captivating than seeing them defend characters that will never come back after two episodes.

Overall not terrible, but I hope that the Naruto: Shippuden movies do different things. For the most part I enjoyed it though. Probably won't ever watch it again.

Guardians of the Crescent moon was an ok watch, but was very similar to the first film.

The premise even started the same. What was initially an escort mission turns into what should be an international incident as they get involved in political affairs. A coup has taken place and instead of calling it quits as this is beyond the scope of what they were hired for, the ninja take the side of the prince.

The villain mercenary ninja are also the same as the first film. They are cut and paste, aside from their clothing. A guy, a girl, and a bigger guy. The big guy ... even has the same face. The other guy's glove is like the glove from the second film, replacing the blue gem with a glowing red eye.

I liked their summer outfits. It's always nice to see a change of clothing in a series where the characters wear literally the same thing every episode. I didn't realize Kakashi was about as white as Orochimaru. I also liked the outfits of the royal moon guards, it was like a modern swat team look.

The scene of the storm on the boat was cool. I could feel the sense of urgency as they scrambled to get the animals free from the cages, although I'm not sure how they were better off that way. Nonetheless, I thought the visuals of the water pushing everything back and forth were nice.

The hanging scene near the end felt anticlimactic. The man should have died under the weight of his own body. A broken neck bone or something. Not saying I wanted him to die, but in a movie with ninjas casting water dragons, that was unrealistic.

I guess the moonlight makes rasengans more powerful and glow purple. And how did Naruto's leg just go back to normal?

There were at least 10 pinky promises made and I don't think any of them are gonna be kept.

Apparently Gameboys are a thing in the Naruto universe.

At the time this movie was made the Naruto anime was already deep into it's long run of filler before Shippuden. It's safe to say that the main series was already stretching itself pretty thin with what could be done with it's relatively small cast of characters. So they gave everyone a new outfit. Despite the fact that these kids are shown to where the same thing all day every day in any and every other situation, because they're going on a boat trip they decided for the time in their lives to change clothes.

Anyway this movie is not great. I give it the same ... grade as all the other Naruto Part 1 movies. The characters just feel so stagnant, like every fight is a rehash of one that came before, and every bad guy has to have some weird dumb power because they can't be bothered to have consistent power scaling between filler and cannon material. Also annoying callbacks to things like "remember when Rock Lee got drunk? That was really funny, so what if we did that but like... again." Or "Remember Naruto using the Rasengan. What if he had a special one this time." Oh and Sakura was there too I guess. Really dumb fights with guys that have no business posing a threat to the kid who solo 1v1 fought a fully transformed Gaara and won.

Anyway 6/10, probably wouldn't ever watch again.

Another shallow and typical story with the group going on a another adventure involving a king, queen, some betrayals, learning some heroic lessons and on on and on. The plot was predictable and there were some minor flaws here and there.

The animation was on point though there were some issues with the CGI but overall the fights looked good and the character designs were great. The music was pretty good and similar to that of the series.

After seeing the two other movies this was a bit of a drag and it was hard to keep focus since it was bland and the same ... formula was used just like the other two movies.