With a title like 'The Last' Naruto movie, you can be sure that even non-naruto fans would watch it. After all, the final movie following the end of the super popular shonen manga is something that anime fans cannot miss, even if you dislike shonen. For many, Naruto was a gateway to the anime world, and for others, it may have been the one and only anime series they have ever watched. No matter, you can be damn sure that everyone would be there to experience 'the end' of the naruto anime franchise.
I doubt that the end'll be so soon though, because seriously. Who can forget Naruto, as an anime or a manga? It's left its mark so deeply in the anime world that it seems unlikely that it would be going away any time soon.
The story is set two years after the end of the manga/anime, and shows us an older cast of characters. They more or less have the same personalities, but with longer hair (or less hair in Naruto's case) and more mature faces.
The movie kicks off with a scene of a time before any ninja villages were born (as if everyone didn't know already!) and unless you've been living under a rock for the past few years, you'll be hard pressed to not understand it all. Fast forward, and I was suddenly seeing an older Naruto teaching a small group of students, whilst being bombarded by hero praise from the rest of the students in school. It seems that he has been pushed into hero status, something I was clearly shown to the start and to the end of the movie.
And from there, the ball gets rolling. Surprisingly, the plot gets pushed to the back burner in favour of showing the budding romance between Naruto and Hinata. The NaruHina ship has sailed folks, and fans will be drooling all over this new movie, featuring 90% more fluff and romance than the entire Naruto anime combined. As the movie goes on, you can tell that this movie is not a closure of any sort.
It's fanservice. The highest quality kind.
Most things Naruto fans wished they could see on screen are present, a Kakashi baring his usually hidden eye for the world to see, romance (fucking finally), older characters and konoha citizens wetting themselves over Naruto himself.
Yep. Who cares about the villian, we know he's going to lose anyway. But i do have to say that the scene where the villian and heroes resolved everything was angsty, especially his sentence as he was walking away. One liners have always been a personal pet peeve of mine anyway.
7.5/10 and would recommend it to anyone and everyone.
