Customer Ratings & Reviews

Naruto Shippuuden Bonds is a really good movie and another good addition to the series as a whole. In this movie a group of Sky Ninja attack the Fire Nation, mainly the Hidden Leaf and Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata join two other new characters go to help a nearby Fire Nation village that was also hit. From that point the story unfolds with the main theme in the movie being how love and bonds tie people together whether its the bonds of family, within a community, between a teacher and student, or the bonds between friends. Sasuke was also in this movie. It's always fun to see how well Sasuke and Naruto work together no matter how long they have been apart. Overall I enjoyed this movie.

I would definitely recommend this movie to any Naurto fans.

Was a good fit for the naruto series and enjoyable

Shows how strong the bond is with you best friend which is your ultimate rival.

Well, I just watched the first Naruto Shippuden movie a little while ago. I found it to be heavily clichéd, even within the context of the series’ own universe, and pretty underwhelming. So I figured I’d go for a two-fer and check out the next Naruto movie to see if they learned some lessons and did any better. In sum, they did not. In many ways, Naruto Shippuden the Movie 2: Bonds is actually worse than its predecessor, with plot points that make no sense, are pitifully underused or unseen, or both, misleading character building, and again too many clichés. Like many of the other Naruto movies, they’re not flat-out terrible, and are still mostly watchable if you are a fan of the series and know what you’re going to get from it going in. The film opens with Konoha, the Village Hidden in the Leaves, under attack. Again. This must be like the eighth time in the series. Konoha is more prone to blowing up than Tokyo, New York City, and Metropolis combined. I’d hate to see their homeowners’ insurance premiums. At any rate, they are under attack from the Sora ninjas from the Land of Sky. Kind of oxymoronic, isn’t it? It’s like the Light of Darkness or the Flame of Aqua. They’re out for revenge on the Leaf for being decimated decades before. Chalk it up to another passing allusion to a supposedly significant event in this world’s mythos that should have massive international and historical implications but is instead never mentioned before or since. It happens. These ninjas have chakra-powered jetpacks, kunai-firing machine guns, and are based on Battleships in the harbor. Nothing about them is consistent with this series’ world; they seem like they came from another franchise and just invaded this one. Naruto and friends are tasked with defeating them, meet some more expendable one-shot characters along the way, team-up with former ally Sasuke Uchiha, and stop the evil thing from doing the evil thing. In short, this film just seems phoned-in. Nothing seems original, the story (and even the show itself) have done this before, nothing of any significance or substance happens, and the film itself doesn’t deliver on its own advertising. Naruto’s one-time friend of the day is Amaru, and apprentice to a doctor from another land. She’s another girl-mistaken-for-a-boy character that anime in general and even this series has seen way too many of. I will give the character design a little credit though. Her design does slightly change when her true gender is revealed, becoming more feminine and softer; it reminded me a little of Mulan’s design. The doctor she’s a companion for is not that much of an original character either. Needless to say, his arc will not surprise you, but the lack of logic and reason for his motivations definitely will. There’s another mysterious dark entity called the Zero Tails. I’m still not sure what it is or where it came from. It doesn’t really fit into the mythos of the rest of the monsters of the series’ lore. I think it is supposed to be the manifestation of despairing thoughts of people, and apparently feeling bad enough can summon it and possess you. Why would something so easy to summon never have been mentioned before and never mentioned since? Bad writing. Believe it. The villain also has an evil Death Star ship (seriously, it even fires a giant laser beam) that the heroes must destroy. The climax is long and confusing, and doesn’t really pay off the build-up from the rest of the film. The key selling point in this film is the reunion of Naruto and Sasuke, who have to team-up again to stop the bad guy. Problem is, Sasuke is barely in it. Except for a very brief expository scene (which doesn’t give much a good reason for his inclusion in the story to begin with), Sasuke doesn’t show up until the last twenty minutes or so. I do like the fact that Hinata, one of my personal favorite characters from the series, is included in the story. Unfortunately, she and Naruto don’t interact much, she doesn’t contribute anything important, and she even flat-out disappears during the third act. The film does have a few good points. Some of the fight scenes are pretty impressive, particularly the old-fashioned melee ones. You do feel for Amaru’s predicament, and you do end up hating the villain characters more than the bad writing, which is usually a sign of something decent. Other than that very little silver lining, this is mostly a dark dreary cloud of a movie. Honestly, it can be skipped without missing anything. There are better Naruto movies down the road.

Not a bad naruto movie. The story was pretty good, something different. The villians were pretty interesting in there designs.