I approached Naruto: The Last hoping it would give Naruto and Hinata's relationship some real time to develop, because it's more or less the same at the end of Shippuden that it was at the start of the original series.
That doesn't happen!
The two spend most of the film separated from each other. Hinata is demoted from an underpowered ninja to a literal damsel in distress, spending about two minutes of the entire movie doing something ninja-like. Naruto comes to fall in love with her, because... Well, I suppose he has to! They don't get any real low-stakes moments to bond, nor do they get to do any fighting TOGETHER (bonds are formed through battle in Shonen!).
I could go on about the various other ways that the movie annoys me. Kurama is almost entirely absent (convenient for the writers or not, he deserves to have a real presence!), everyone's power levels seem to be extremely flexible depending on what's convenient for maintaining tension, so much more.
BUT,
I don't actually need to, because it didn't do what it set out to do: allow Naruto and Hinata's relationship to truly blossom.
Let Kurama speak you fucking animals
