Boruto: Naruto the Movie Review (Anime)
Naruto Shippuden has ended, the Boruto anime is airing and there’s even been a Boruto expansion pack for the Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 game, but where the Hokage’s son’s journey really begins is in Boruto: Naruto the Movie. Don’t worry, the film is much better than its title!
Naruto is now the Seventh Hokage, as he always wanted, and his son Boruto is training to become an elite shinobi himself. Due to Naruto’s focus on his job, Boruto resents the role of Hokage and doesn’t share the same aspirations of his father, and so much of the movie focuses on the pairs relationship. There’s a scene where Naruto uses a shadow clone in place of himself to celebrate his daughter’s, Himawari, birthday which really does punch you in the stomach. It’s a very personal story and a bit of an emotional rollercoaster, and it’s the perfect way to naturally continue the Naruto legacy.
The perfect way to naturally continue the Naruto legacy.
It’s a nice blend of old and new, proving to be a fantastic way for Naruto to hand down the torch to Boruto and the other young shinobi-in-training. It’s a thrilling adventure that’ll please you with how the original cast have evolved, as well as be pleasantly surprised with how likeable the entire new cast is. I wasn’t watching it before, but this movie has convinced me that I should be checking out the on-going Boruto anime series.
The budget was clearly pretty high here considering how explosive and grand the battles are. Slick, stylish and brimming with little details, the action scenes had me on the edge of my seat. Many of the new characters are children of familiar faces, and it’s pretty easy to identify who’s related to who. None of them look like clones though and have features that separate themselves from their parents, and it’s clear a lot of thought went into balancing out how much of their parents the children should inherit. This is represented in ability and power too, where many of the same powers are shared but on a much weaker level in the children.
Slick, stylish and brimming with little details, the action scenes had me on the edge of my seat.
The cast from Naruto reprise their roles along with a bunch of new voices, and now the entire Uzumaki family right now is voiced by women — they do a great job though, so you’ll hear no complaints from me! If anything, I can’t imagine anything else other than Maile Falanagan voicing Naruto now. Amanda Celine Miller, Cherami Leigh, Robbie Daymond, and Melissa Fahn are amongst the newcomers to the series, and they feel as if they’ve always belonged in the shinobi series.
The emotive, polished voice-acting is joined by an equally as wonderful soundtrack, and it’s opening and ending themes are both very catchy. Naruto has always excelled when it comes to audio, and Boruto plans to not tamper with what works. Again, you can feel the love that freely flows throughout Boruto: Naruto the Movie, and it’s undeniably of a high, refined quality that shows how familiar the team are with this cast and world.
There’s a whole lot of life for this amazing world to give.
Boruto: Naruto the Movie is earnest and captivating, and it shows that even once the original series has ended, that there’s a whole lot of life for this amazing world to give. If this is only the start of something new then I’m excited to see where it goes next, because Boruto’s journey has started with an exhilarating bang which shows why people love the Naruto series in the first place.
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