93 min
Director: Hajime Kamegaki
Writer: Junki Takegami

Plot: A mysterious group of ninja called the Sora-nin from the Sky Country makes a surprise attack on Konoha. This is because Konoha nearly destroyed the Sky Country during the last Shinobi World War, yet they survived and now they're after Konoha and the Fire Country for revenge. 

This is the second movie in the Naruto Shippuden series, and while I liked the first one I was hoping the second one would be on par with the last movie. Its not, for the most part at least. While its not as good, and in a sense feels like a step down in quality its does for the most part work out to be a pretty good movie.

The movie starts as Konoha is attack by a mysterious country from the sky and the Leaf Village is fighting them off. Meanwhile in the chaos of the village Naruto save a man from the reckage and is helped by a docter Shinnō. We later find out that the doctor could by the reason why the village is being attacked. So the fifth Hokage Tsunade assigns Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata to help protect the Docter and his apprentice Amaru get to their village to help stop this attack.

Meanwhile we have a side plot following Sasuke, at the time of the story, Orochimaru is sick and is in need of docter, at that docter happens to be Shinnō who Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata are helping to protect. Its not as important as the main story and could of easily be taken out of the movie. It feels like its only put in here so fans can have Sasuke in a Naruto movie.

The plot of the story is straight forward until about the half way point where it does kinda take a spin where we find out who the actual villain of the movie is, but after that it goes back to be a straightforward action movie. The fight scenes aren't anything that special and later we do get a sorta team up with both Naruto and Sasuke and its nice to see but it only somthing meant the movie and means nothing else.

Overall I feel like this movie is just a filler movie, it has moments that feel like the stakes should be high but it ends up not being all that serious. Adding Sasuke to the movie felt like something they only did to please the fans, and he really doesn't serve much of a purpose nor is he in the movie all that much at all. I do recommend this movie but I wouldn't put this at the top of the list of Naruto movies to see.

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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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