Naruto Shippuden Movie 6: Road to Ninja - Reviews

This is the ninth Naruto movie, made around the time when the Ninja War began. The main idea behind the plot is interesting, as Naruto and Sakura are sent to an alternative dimension where there is no war. That is supposed to show what Madara plans to do if he plan succeeds and thus excuse his satanic plans.

 

Sadly this is still a kids’ show, thus the whole thing ends up being nothing more than a badly written fanfic. I mean, really, you are watching this just because you are aware of how one-dimensional everybody is and want to laugh with a “what if” anecdote. You are presented with an alternative dimension where everyone is supposed to act differently and all you get is them acting in the exact opposite way than they do in the normal world. Hell, they don’t even wear different clothes. Do you know what that means? That the Naruto cast is so simple in personality that the only way they could be presented any differently is by reversing the one and only character trait which defined them. Hell, in some cases that trait couldn’t even be reversed and all they did is removing it. Like, the dog dude now being bad with dogs, the insect dude hating insects, and the scroll girl being bad with scrolls. And that doesn’t even happen with all the characters as many others such as the Akatsuki (yes they are present too) have retained their personality for no given reason.

 

What makes it even worse is that the script was not written by some retarded 10 year old narutard but by the very creator of the show, Kishimoto himself. Really now Kishi, is this how low your writing skills dropped? People usually improve over the years you know; you are given a fresh new canvas and all you do is reverse the colors?   

 

Anyways, this is all a big excuse to see Naruto’s parents and the Akatsuki members being still alive. I mean who cares about story continuity if you have a dozen cool cameos such as those on screen doing their stuff? And we got a second evil Naruto to fight our hero to boot. Where did he appear from? Who cares! Oh, there is also that side story where Sakura is the orphan in this world and she starts to feel as bad as Naruto for growing up alone. But that is thrown away in, like, 10 minutes and she is useless as always so who gives a damn.

 

Ah, I find so little to write about this. Seriously, by the time the “what ifs” are over, so is most of the film. It is definitely more mature as a concept than the rest of the movies since it’s supposed to be more about the psyche of the protagonists and less about some global threat. Naruto still ends everything with a Rasengan as always but that was not the point of the film. They could have definitely done far more if they had spent more time on the drama of parenthood and had skipped all the silly reverse personalities. I mean, jeez, what was the point of presenting all the reversed rookies if none of them mean anything to the plot? They literally disappear from the story towards the end. And Konoha ends up being nuked again but this time nobody gives a damn about it; thus trashing the whole idea of the world not being better after all.

 

Damn you Kishi; all these good ideas, trashed by the ridiculous fanfic flavor.

This is the sixth Naruto Shippuden movie.  In this movie we see Sakura parents, and I think that kind of interesting because we never see her parents.  I wish we can see some of the Konoha Eleven parents in the future show or film because I want to see Rock Lee parents look like.  The plot is very interesting, the plot is where Madara sent Naruto and Sakura to an alternative reality.  And at the alternative reality everything is different, everyone they know are exact oppisite of each other, my favorite is Hinata.  Also in this reality Naruto Parents are alive, and Sakura parents is the one who saved the village for the Nine-Tails.  The fight animation in here was done pretty well, the sound fell the same to me, the character we see in this alternative reality was done very well.  So overall, if you are a Naruto fan go watch it.

Personally, I loved it because of the fact that naruto gets to see his parents and have a family. what I wish for after seeing this movie is that naruto would get to stay with his family or something....i was really sad after seeing him have to leave and thought to myself, why can't naruto have his family...and that is why I liked this one....although it's sad they didn't put a new movie rasengan in like in the other movies XD

So this was very good but no one cares about Sakura am I right or am I right ?

While this movie was bittersweet and I enjoyed it because of that, it also is pretty random and doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me…

First, we start with Episode 271 of the show, which serves as promotion to this movie. Going off of that episode, I thought the plot of the movie was going to be completely different than it was... Which it isn’t always a bad thing, for a movie to have a different plot than expected, but with the way the episode ended, it made watching the movie even more confusing than it already was.

Then there is the movie itself. I know these movies are set outside the canon of the show, but the setting was very confusing in the beginning, as it seemed to be taking place before Konoha was destroyed—except, at some point they mentioned Naruto being a hero because of the fight with Pain… I know Konoha has been rebuilding and all, but I feel like they initially were going to release this movie much earlier, as the village does NOT look like the rebuilt one.

Also, the fight in the beginning, against Akatsuki, seemed really… lame? I think that’s a good way to put it. In the show, Akatsuki is very hard to defeat, whereas Naruto’s friends don’t have too difficult of a time facing off of with them in the first ten minutes of the movie.

I can’t say too much more without going into spoilers (which you will find below), but I have a hard time giving my opinion of this movie. Much of what goes on in this movie doesn’t seem to have a real explanation, but I love what it does for Naruto, and I also love what Sakura experiences. I kind of wish those moments for them was canon.

Oh, and a content warning. This movie has quite a bit of time of males and females at a spa… Most of this nudity is hidden by towels or water, but you do see the backsides of the boys. The whole scene was just super awkward to watch, and a bit too much for me. And there was also some use of the F-word.

But now, onto the SPOILERS!!!

So, this alternate world that Naruto and Sakura are in… It was created from their deepest desires. Yet, I really don’t think Sakura’s desires were her deepest. It was just how she was feeling at the moment. Unless I just misunderstood something. But it did make for a good parallel to Naruto, and I loved her finally beginning to really understand what Naruto has gone through, with that pain of not having a family.

As for the characters of the alternate world… I don’t really understand why their personalities were all flopped around. It was entertaining at moments, but it didn’t make sense with how the world was created. I realize not every little detail of the world will be based off of Naruto’s and Sakura’s desires, but it seemed strange people close to them would different in a negative way. I feel like a part of their ideal worlds would have their friends in a more positive light.

Here is where we come to Sasuke. I really liked seeing him portrayed this way, for the most part. It was nice to see how he could have turned out, if the positive had ruled his life, rather than a desire for revenge. However, I didn’t like that he was a total flirt and a heartbreaker… That doesn’t fit Sakura’s wishes at all.

Though, now I’m starting to wonder if this world of illusion grants only one desire per person, and then everything else changes in order for the one desire to work. So, Naruto’s and Sakura’s desires about their friends don’t matter, because that wasn’t picked up by the alternate world.

However, that explanation doesn’t fix all of the problems, as I really doubt the change of events would have altered everybody’s personalities… Not that that is necessarily a problem, it just had no explanation and seemed very random.

So, overall, this movie does have a ton of things that bothered me, but I loved that Naruto was able to not only see his parents, but actually play the part as their son.