Product Description

A powerful spirit that once threatened to destroy the world is back! Naruto’s mission is to protect a priestess named Shion, who is the only once with the power to seal away the monster. She also has the uncanny ability to predict someone’s fate. Her latest prediction: Naruto will soon die. Naruto's only hope is to abandon Shion, but that’s not Naruto's style. He decides to face her fatal prediction head-on---and die!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1968 in DVD
• Brand: Warner Brothers
• Released on: 2009-11-10
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.77:1
• Formats: Animated, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: Japanese
• Subtitled in: English
• Dubbed in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 94 minutes

Features

• A powerful spirit that once threatened to destroy the world is back! Naruto s mission is to protect a priestess named Shion, who is the only once with the power to seal away the monster. She also has the uncanny ability to predict someone s fate. Her latest prediction: Naruto will soon die. Naruto s only hope is to abandon Shion, but that s not Naruto s style. He decides to face her fatal predicti

Amazon.com
The first of three theatrical features, Naruto Shippuden--the Movie (2007) provides a visually striking, action-packed introduction to the second series of adventures of ninja-in-training Naruto Uzumaki. Sinister ninja use black magic medical jutsu to raise the spirit of the long-imprisoned demon Moryo. If Moryo's body is also resurrected, he will establish a Thousand Year Kingdom that will mean the end of life on Earth as humans know it. Only Shion, the priestess of the Land of Ogres, can stop Moryo by keeping his body sealed within a hidden temple. A special squad from the Village Hidden in the Leaves--Neji, Sakura, Rock Lee, and Naruto--is assigned to protect Shion on her journey there. Director Hajime Kamegaki uses CG to create a terracotta army copied from the celebrated figures from Emperor Qin Shi Huang's tomb in Xian. The scenes of marching clay automatons, impervious to ordinary weapons, pack a real punch, although they don't always blend with the drawn characters. Kamegaki balances these dire threats with plenty of physical comedy: Naruto boasts and blunders and stumbles; Rock Lee defeats his foe after eating a liquor-filled chocolate, re-creating his version of Jackie Chan's "drunken fist" technique in the "Chase for Sasuke" story arc. For Naruto fans, the movie is a must-have. (Rated Teen+ Older Teen, but suitable for ages 12 and older: violence, grotesque imagery, brief nudity, alcohol use) --Charles Solomon

Customer Reviews

FACTS
First off ignore the reviews from peeps who read a product listing with no clue of the actual product. The dvd comes with English dub and japanese audio, along with subs. If you read between the lines the product description does say dubbed. I am sure Amazon will fix the error in the audio part when enough of you complain. As far as the dvd what can I say its Naruto, so it totally rocks. I like English dub, my daughter likes to watch the Japanese with subs so we are both happy with this release. And yes I gotta love the fact we get new release's early due to family that work in the right places, so enjoy this one when the rest of you get the chance. It totally ROCKS!

A let down
I expected alot from this movie, probally too much, cause i love all things naruto, but i was reall let down. The characters just kind of complained back and forth to each other, the action was'nt that great, with the exception of rock lee's fight scene in it, which was pretty cool. I think i expected eveyone to have the 1 on 1 action scene the show use to have when they were younger, but overall the movie was just ok.

The only way to accept filler from this series!
The first film of the series is a good offering considering that it technically constitutes as filler, but to tell you the truth, filler with a good production value is alright for me as a casual fan. Though it doesn't advance the main story much, actually it's a bit difficult to try and place this story within the series, but it is soon forgiven for the action is awesome (especially good if you're a fan of Rock Lee)and it heightens the devices the series tends to use sparingly (CGI effects).

I won't trouble you by spoiling the story, it's bland and easily understood, aaaaaaaand the execution of the story is one that you've seen before in many other Naruto movies. In fact, if anyone can tell me a Naruto movie that advances the main story, please let me know, I haven't seen them all and I'm starting to see an awkward pattern that could turn me off to the movies, but my fandom menace won't let me stop buying them.

All in all, for those of you who are buying the volumes individually, treat this as an optional supplement to tide you over until the next volume is released. For those of you who are still waiting patiently to get your first hit of Shippuden in full in January, then you won't even notice this movie and probably buy it for kicks. For those of you who like to watch Rock Lee do his thing again (including his drunken fist) then cop this in full confidence.

The villains in this movie are creative, but that's a bar that the series set for itself and at this point we expect no less, so really it's nothing truly outstanding from the series' standards. The CGI used in this is considerable but does skim the boundary of gratuitous (sure it saves money, but do we really NEED it? it doesn't necessarily communicate with the animated characters well, but this movie manages to keep you from saying anything negative about it while it's going)

So all I have to say is that I wasn't disappointed in buying this, I got action at a time length comparable to a volume of the series and I got to see my favorite characters from the Naruto universe thwart yet another threat to the world...but as long as the regions that encompass the Naruto main story are left untouched, then I wouldn't mind seeing the rest of the world plunge into an oblivion of weaponized chakra...