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.

Very entertaining visual, really confusing with the content
Actually, I'm not too surprised by the kind of movies that go with Anime in Japan. But every Anime has characters and everything around comes with its own world, which is unique. And each character has also unique characteristics and personality.
And I can't imagine how disappointed I was at the way my favorite characters were treated in this movie. I no longer recognize them. Of course, the humor still exists, but the content of the film is too bad, the characters are too boring and the mage princess Shion is like a fusion of Garra and Neji.
The villains ... also don't last very long in my memory, they just show up, get defeated, and then disappear. And when they were killed, sure enough, it was when Sakura, Lee, and Neji laughed and enjoyed it with no mercy.
At that time I wondered "What the f** sh*?" why should the voice actors have to put up with this, they're destroying every teen's favorite characters and no one is protesting?
And if for comparison, look at the pointless and offensive joke at the end of the movie, then the scene is cut suddenly, that's my feeling. If this wasn't a Naruto movie, I would rate it 2 stars.