The Last: Naruto The Movie

The Last: Naruto the Movie is a 2014 Japanese animated action-romance film produced by Studio Pierrot and directed by Tsuneo Kobayashi. It is based on Masashi Kishimoto's manga and anime Naruto, and is the first film to be a part of the canonical Naruto storyline. It stars Junko Takeuchi, Nana Mizuki, Chie Nakamura, Showtaro Morikubo, Satoshi Hino, Kazuhiko Inoue and Noriaki Sugiyama.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Most of the new character designs are great. Most notably Naruto's, Hinata's and Gaara's
 * 2) It's nice to see some deceased characters return in this movie like Hayate, Pain and even Madara.
 * 3) The opening scene is awesome as it shows many historical battles in the Naruto universe. An awesome remix of Greensleeves plays during this scene.
 * 4) Excellent soundtrack including a remix of the Naruto Main Theme.
 * 5) Beautiful animation.
 * 6) Extremely good voice acting.
 * 7) Most of the characters are still likable.
 * 8) There are tons of throwbacks to the previous Naruto movies.
 * 9) The after credits scene is cute.
 * 10) Sakura is a much better character in this movie as she cares about Naruto, helps out in a fight against puppets and even breaks Naruto, Hinata, Shikamaru and Sai out of Genjutsu.
 * 11) It does explain why Hinata loves Naruto.
 * 12) Tons of funny moments.
 * 13) There are some fans who like this movie.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) While the animation is great, it can be really bad, most notably in the final battle.
 * A, the Raikage, is a extremely unlikable character in this movie. He is shown to not care for the safety of the others and almost blew up the moon even thoug he knew Naruto and his friends were on it
 * 1) Hinata’s scarf is very annoying. Whenever she makes a new one, it always gets destroyed.
 * 2) Sasuke, a very important character in the series, never gets any screentime.
 * 3) Several major Naruto characters also don’t appear much or at all, like the Akatsuki (except Pain), Neji, Kiba, Shino, Zabuza, Kabuto and Orochimaru. Meanwhile characters like Hayate make it into the movie
 * 4) The story doesn’t explan why Naruto is very popular. It doesn’t even mention him destroying Kaguya.
 * 5) Despite being canon, the story doesn’t provide any important moments.
 * 6) Despite it coming out before the Naruto anime was finished. People who were following the anime were probably confused when they saw it.
 * 7) While most of the characters designs are great, there are some bad ones like Lee’s.
 * 8) There are tons of talking scenes and very little fight scenes.
 * 9) False Advertising: despite it being called “The Last”, this isn’t the last Naruto movie as the Boruto movie and a upcoming live action Naruto movie came out after it.