Road To Ninja -Naruto The Movie-

2012 • 110 minutes

About this movie

Long ago, a mysterious masked shinobi unleashed the Nine-Tailed Fox onto the Village Hidden in the Leaves to spread chaos and destruction. But the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, and his wife Kushina Uzumaki sealed the Tailed Beast into their newborn son Naruto to save the village, foiling the shinobi's plan.

Years later, Naruto and his friends succeed in driving away the infamous Akatsuki, who have mysteriously returned from the dead. Upon returning to the village, the young shinobi are praised by their families for completing a dangerous mission. Reminded of how alone he is, Naruto begins to wonder what it's like to have parents, when a strange masked figure appears before him – the same masked shinobi responsible for the death of his parents!

Ratings and reviews

This movie was very funny and emotional. The only problem is Sakura and her selfishness. With her being the main heroine, she could do MUCH better. Also, it would be better if we didn't just see the alternate characters for just one scene, but have them all come together at the end and help fight off Obito/ evil Menma. It seems like it was only a temporary way to catch the audience's attention. Other than those two complaints, the movie was good. It was great to see Naruto with his parents.

It was a good movie with all the emotional things you'd want in a Naruto film. Only critique (spoiler alert) is that it was basically a full length version/knockoff (maybe not the best word since it was a good story) of the two episodes in the Shippuden series where characters exist in an alternate world. One is when a different Sakura comes to the current world and the other is during the infinite sukonomi (sp?) when you see Tenten's dream world. Still good, couple giggles. Would watch it again.

Nice story. Good art and animation all the way through. Fights could have been better but for a side story there were good enough. That's really the only low point.