If you've been living under a rock for the last 2 years, this movie showcases the romantic development, or lack thereof, of Naruto and Hinata. Now I don't mind Naruhina: they're a very sweet, tender kind of couple and to this movie's credit, it was pretty nice to see them finally get together. It was the events that led up to it that bothered me.
First there was Hinata's unnecessary angst throughout the movie. Naruto has replaced Sasuke (who only shows up for like 15 seconds by the way) as the village stud, and all the girls have suddenly started to shower him in gifts. She knits a scarf for Naruto as a sort of romantic gesture, but finds out he already has another scarf and thinks he already accepted another girl's feelings (spoiler: it belonged to his mother. Whoops.) So anyway, what brings her out of her angst is when Naruto has a romantic epiphany because some dream version of Sakura told him that romantic love is not the same love he has for ramen. The fuck? You expect me to believe that he went through all of his childhood and teenage years and never once experienced romantic love? He had a crush on Sakura early on, but that was kind of brushed off as a sort of competition with Sasuke, so I guess not.
That is not only very unrealistic, but it's implied many times that it's because he's an orphan that he never learned to love, which is kind of a shitty thing to say. Plus, confusing a favorite food with romantic love could have other implications that I won't get into. Still, it wouldn't be Naruto if there weren't people with magic eye powers fucking things up wherever they go, and don't you worry, this movie has a little of that thrown in.
Basically, some loner who lives in a castle on the moon wants to destroy the world because the people of Earth went against his clans wishes or whatever. He kidnaps Hinata's sister and Hinata follows to save her, obviously. The thing is, the moon man is also in love with Hinata. It wasn't enough that they had to write a romance based on a shonen, but they also had to incorporate a love triangle. Naruto wins by punching him and yelling something cheesy about a scarf, then he and Hinata make out in the sky. Then it flashes forward a few years later, where it shows that the happy couple has given birth to their bratty son and a daughter that Kishimoto apparently forgot about. Hooray.
In conculsion, even if you actually enjoyed Naruto, you wouldn't be missing out on a lot if you skipped this. Not only did they shove about 95% of Naruhina's romantic development into a two-hour timeframe, but they came up with some random bullshit to explain why Naruto is so dense. The only reason you probably should watch this is to see your favorite character get 5-10 minutes of screentime, but otherwise, it's not worth your time at all.
