Let's look at all the things wrong with this movie:
1). Generic villain related to the Sage that came out of nowhere with no foreshadowing.
2). The fact this movie, a shonen series, is focused entirely on love to the point it surpasses any bad shoujo.
3). Naruto never had any feelings for Hinata throughout the entire manga nor strong enough moments to make it's basis believable.
4). Naruto and Hinata didn't even have off-panel development during the two-year timeskip. It was still the same, but a love story somehow fit in a 110 minute movie.
5). Naruto and Hinata are dragged together by some sort of tragedy (Hinata getting nearly killed by Neji, Hinata trying to commit suicide in Pain arc, Neji dying to protect them, Hinata getting kidnapped, Hanabi getting kidnapped) instead of having natural, casual interaction.
6). Naruto's love for Sakura is excused as an only being a product of his rivalry with Sasuke and his first real, true love is Hinata, even though scenes like the PoaL, SS hospital hug, databooks, and confession arc clearly outright said otherwise. He also didn't go for any other fangirls of Sasuke.
7). Sakura actually supports this idea, despite the fact she instantly believed Sai when he told her Naruto loved her and even cried tears of guilt over it.
8). Hanabi is finally relevant, but only as a plot device for NH.
9). Sakura's love for Sasuke still has no reason and despite seeming shallow with fangirl moments, is still taken more seriously than Naruto's feelings for her.
10). Scarves, scarves and more scarves. Related to a NH flashback as a prop for the couple when it was never even in the manga
11). "Young girls never give up on their love"-- Sakura believes this, despite the vast build-up of negativity in the manga for SS that later served no point. Also relays with the misogynistic, wish-fulfillment message that women must always love their first love and never have a change of heart otherwise they would be bad or fickle.
13). Naruto's feelings persisted throughout the entire manga for Sakura and now Hinata's suddenly his true love despite the fact Kishimoto never focused on their relationship the way he did with NS.
14). Hinata seems to have more relevance then the entirety of Team 7 combined.
15). Still no sign or closure of Team Taka. They might as well have had no point in the series.
16). SS is the end pair, but gets no focus or even a semi-justifiable explanation for it's canon.
17). Possibility Karin might die for SS and a rival character dying for a ship is always a cop out and insulting to both the character and the shippers.
18). Unnecessary parallels to MK/OB/JR, all implying Naruto would never fall for another girl and break the cycle of romantic tragedy, but the route ended up being the easy, "giving up" route straight into Hinata's lap.
19). Pairings like NH/SS, which were canonically one-sided in the manga and had scarce to bare minimum interaction, are somehow more realistic in becoming two-sided than the Naruto/Sakura relationship, which had steady development and plenty of reasons.
20). The reason Naruto ignored Hinata for so long because he thought she liked him the way he liked ramen despite the fact she nearly died and gave a love confession, over-exaggerating Naruto's denseness and making him look too stupid.
21). Possibility Sasuke loved Sakura since Part 1. Even though she never got singled out, was always lumped together in T7, and displayed even a flicker of emotion doing horrible things to her (which he did with Naruto)
22). A side character's wishes are overriding and deconstructing every character she touches, twisting them into OCC versions of themselves all tailored to that one side character's needs, all in only 110 minutes.
..... It's official. You don't even need to be a neutral fan to see how bad this movie looks. Kishimoto must've been high on a whole bunch of drugs to come up with this kitten.
Edited by xxRomanceGirlxx, 25 November 2014 - 04:07 AM.
