Naruto Shippuden The Movie (2007) Movie Review

95 min

Director: Hajime Kamegaki
Writer: Junki Takegami
Genre: Animation | Action | Adventure

Plot: This time Naruto's mission is to guard Shion, but she predicts Naruto's death. The only way to escape it, is to get away from Shion, which would leave her unguarded, then the demon, whose only goal is to kill Shion will do so, thus meaning the end of the world. Naruto decides to challenge this "prediction of death."

I am currently rewatching the series of Naruto Shippuden and though I've seen parts of the movie back when it was on Toonami. I decided to watch the movies based on how close they are with the main series chronologically. The movies themselves are not officially canon with the story except for the upcoming movie that will take place after the main story. But they do fit into little gaps between the seasons, in a way that can you can find little excuses to make it fit within the show.

Now what I like about this first movie in the second series is that it does feel like a collection of episode put together, its a simple story with a simple mission and has cool fight scenes.

This movie follows Team 7 but this time its Neji leading the team with Rock Lee along side him as a replacement. Their mission is simple, they have to take this girl, named Shion, from point A to point B safely. But the main villain of the film wants to kill Shion because she is the only one who can stop him.

what makes her special though, is that she can see into the future when someone close to her will die. Right away when she meets Naruto that is the first thing she tells him. So for the majority of the movie we do not know whether or not they will be able to change the future. On the way to Point B the team encounter about 3 enemies who are sent by the main villain to capture Shion.

This leads to the best part of the movie, the fight scenes, particularly Rock Lee's. In these fights we see some the best fighting than we've gotten from the show in a while. From the animation and the extent of power they show its makes this movie worth watching alone. But this is expected from the much larger budget they had for this movie. The other fights scenes are decent but forgettable.

If your a fan the show and haven't seen this movies yet, you definitely should. Its one of the better Naruto Movies that can stand alone from the show and be just as good as the show is.



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