Gekidžóban Naruto: Šippúden – The Lost Tower

It's clear to me that if I had gone to see this movie in the theater, I would have really regretted the money I wasted. The villain was pretty weak all round (not just in "strength" but also in character, which is something you can get used to with the Naruto movies, but here...), plus you just can't help but compare him to Sasori... Another minus was the speeches: who the hell came up with such empty dialogue?! The fights: another boring affair, and that's a problem when the last one lasts half an hour (nothing new, the same thing over and over again, and it wasn't exciting at all). Add to all this that Minato didn't do much, in fact he was hardly there (and he was the one I was looking forward to most in this film), that he (and the others) seemed pretty dumb – and you can't do that, not with a badass like him! :-D And yes, even the rasengan came in and some genius gave it the stupidest name he ever could have (and it was Yellow Flash who said it, noooo). Fail. But it had its upsides. It was nice that Naruto listened without talking, there was even that thing I wanted so badly – Naruto x Minato = father x son; the resolution of that (which wasn't really addressed, but still), you'll see that flashback towards the end. It's not a movie I want to go back to, even though young Kakashi and Minato are there. That being said: this movie totally wasted its potential (and it could have been such beautiful fan service) :-D (06/05/2011)