I'll be leaving for two weeks at most, and I don't know how often I'll be able to go on-line. So here's one review I don't want to delay for too long.

Yesterday... I mean early this morning, I watched Naruto: Bonds, fifth film based on Naruto. While it had a lot to be desired, it far surpassed that pukewalanche they called Naruto Shippuuden: The Movie, which was a complete wastenado of my timefoon.
First, let's see what it was all about:

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A large fleet of steampunk warships approach the land of the fire, and start bombarding, in what appears to be a remake of Pearl Harbor. Entire squadrons of soldiers called Sky-nins leave the decks, and use chakra powered wings to fly over the Hidden Leaf, and begin shooting people and buildings using guns that shoot knives, and some weird balls that look like hand grenades. They eventually leave to restock, and prepare for a second run. Shikamaru and Neji observe their movements, determine the location of their base, and move out along with Kakashi and Sai, for a surprise attack.
Meanwhile, Naruto, Hinata and Sakura are tasked with escorting a doctor who helped treat the injured, and his apprentice (Amaru), back home. After a dangerous trek through a jungle, (during which Naruto makes friends with Amaru as they save each others lives, and he finds out more about HER past with doctor Sinno), they finally arrive to the village, which has been raised. Desperately looking for survivors, Amaru accidentally triggers a booby trap, but the good doctor saves her in the nick of time and gets impaled by a volley of knives. After burying his body, the party splits up to look for survivors. Hinata is captured, apparently, while Naruto and Sakura have a run-in with the Notails (yes, they added another beast, even though there are only 9 of them). The beast apparently possessed Amaru, because of her despair over the loss of her teacher. After dealing with his own inner demon, who really wants to have a go with it's long lost relative, Naruto manages to get to Amaru and help her exorcise the demon. Sakura goes looking for Hinata and the villagers, while Naruto and Amaru explore the ruins, which turn out to be a flying fortess called the Ancor Vantian, and manned by the leader of the Sky-nins, who is none other than doctor Sinno himself. Turns out, he didn't die, he just staged his own death, to manipulate Amaru's emotions. Something he's been doing all this time. He did this so the Notails could feed off her negative emotions, and convert it into dark chakra, that eventually allows him to go Super Saiyan, and beat Naruto Dragon Ball style. Then Sasuke, who has been following Sinno, on Orochimaru's orders, shows up to break the fight, and disables the villainous old man. Sinno escapes, and Naruto along with Sasuke, chase him through the Vantian while Amaru goes to rescue the prisoners. An epic showdown takes place in the core of the Vantian, where Sinno fuses with the Notails, going all mutatey on them and starts draining their chakra. But he's in for more that he bargained for, as the large amount of chakra he absorbs results in a meltdown, leaving him vulnerable to the finishing moves of the two youngsters. Amaru rescues the prisoners (Including Hinata and Sakura, who were captured at one point), and they all escape in a flying machine, while Naruto stays behind to blast the Vantian into oblivion.
All the while, Shikamaru's team successfully decommission the enemy fleet, by infesting the ships with Shino's bugs.
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Epic battles at sky and sea made this film really worth watching. The graphics were a little too cartoony, but the animation was good at least. The story got a little hard to follow at some points, but besides all this, it was enjoyable. It didn't beat the first one, but it's a close second.

Now off to packing. I need to get ready for the big trip i mentioned.