

With the majority of his Chakra taken away, he can hardly maintain the use of one “shadow clone”. For him, when in doubt he creates about 5000 versions of himself. In this movie, Naruto was forced to act without the use of his Chakra (or at least a very small amount of it) which is quite a change from the other movies or the show. A fairly happy guy, stays strong and optimistic most of the time and is all in all a great Shounen character. Naruto – We all know him and his character. There are times when I feel like a character progressed or revealed something interesting about themselves which made me like them more or at least became more interested in them.

I'd go anywhere between 6 and 7 on character. During a final battle you want the music to be exciting and intense! The songs used during the last battle were the ones that stood out the most to me, they really added on to the scene nicely! I can happily say that this movie did in fact have some nice music that went perfectly with the scenes. Just felt more like background noise, nothing to add on to the scene. Lastly the music! From my experience with Naruto movies, the music had never really stood out to me. There are a few rare moments (more toward the end) that she gets to show off her talent of voice acting, but just her average talking was well balanced and wasn't at all annoying to listen to! I can't always say that for the girl characters in anime. But like Mui, Ryuuzetsu doesn't have much time to shine, at least for the most part of the movie. Although she is also a fairly unknown voice actor, she does a pretty good job as Ryuuzetsu. Our other voice actor to look at is Sonozaki Mie, playing the role of Ryuuzetsu. One of the things that bothered me was the lack of emotion expressed for the majority of the movie, though that was a problem with the character and not the voice actor himself. He's been in a handful of shows, but doesn't often play main characters. Now there's two new characters that appear in this movie that played main roles.įirst being Mui, our (supposed) antagonist of the movie played by Terasoma Masaki. Say what you want, but I think Takeuchi Junko does a fantastic job as Naruto, she has a great range of emotions and really captures moments beautifully! One thing the anime Naruto does have going for it is the voice acting. Majority of the art was just your average cel-shading / anime style shading. The bodies just moved in weird ways sometimes. The characters would occasionally move very oddly, as though all their bones had been replaced with cartilage or they were being held up by strings like a puppet. However, there were also times that I really felt like the art reached an entire new level of awkward. There were times that the art look fantastic! The setting would be perfect, nicely detailed background and the characters blended in with it well. Which added a nice touch for the so called Blood-Prison.

I personally enjoyed the darker setting (literally darker), a lot of it took place inside of this prison with no lights except for the torch lights. The final battle of the movie was pretty exciting though, just something to look forward to! I would say the entire plot was 20% action and then 80% talking. Darker than some of the plots in Naruto, sure, but we've seen better.

From the trailer, it gave the impression that this would be a very dark, mysterious film! Wasn't quite the same. The reason I didn't really love the plot to this was because it wasn't what I was hoping for. The leader of the prison seems to be very interested in Naruto, and I mentioned it before it's because he's a Jinchuriki.Įven in movies such as this, I'm always waiting for the big moment! A moment where I will be shocked and excited! But really, in this movie there were times that something very 'plot twisting' would be revealed, and I would think to myself “Oh, was that supposed to be a secret?” I honestly thought it was just common knowledge. Naruto is brought to this prison, and when I say in the middle of nowhere I mean out in the middle of the ocean on an island, completely cut off from the rest of the world. I of course won't 'spoil' anything about the movie, however there really isn't much to spoil anyway. If you've seen any of Naruto or Naruto Shippuuden (or any of the movies) you know how these things end up. What could this prison possibly want from Naruto? Here's a hint, the bad guys all call Naruto “Jinchuriki”, that shouldn't be too much of a shock considering most of the plots revolving around Naruto have to do with Kyuubi in some way. Naruto is framed for a crime he didn't commit and is sent to a cruel, evil prison out in the middle of nowhere.
