Shonen Jump Naruto The Movie: Legend of the Stone of Gelel |  | Director: Hirotsugu Kawasaki
Studio: VIZ VIDEO
Category: DVD
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Format: Animated, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Discs: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 155 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.7 x 1.1
MPN: 782009238652
UPC: 782009238652
EAN: 0782009238652
ASIN: B0016AK37S
Release Date: July 29, 2008
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The Legend of the Stone of Gelel (2005) follows the cast of the popular comedy-adventure Naruto on what should be an extremely simple mission: returning a missing ferret to its owner. But no mission is simple when knuckle-headed ninja-in-training Naruto Uzumaki is involved. Soon, he, Sakura, and Shikamaru (not Sosuke) are battling Temujin, a mysterious young warrior in Western medieval armor. At the behest of his lord Master Haido, Temujin is seeking the legendary Stones of Gelel, which bestow unimaginable power on the possessor--power the ninjas can't allow Haido to have. The second Naruto movie suffers from an underdeveloped story: the viewer never learns the source of the Stones' power, nor the origins of Master Haido and his nefarious crew. Although Naruto wins out through a mixture of determination, integrity, and mule-headed stubbornness, the most exciting jutsu are employed by Gaara of the Sand Village, a former enemy who becomes an ally. Legend of the Stone of Gelel is more satisfying than the incongruous Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow (2004), which moved the characters to modern Hollywood. But neither film captures all the fun of the broadcast series. The disc of extras includes some rather standard making-of mini-documentaries, the storyboards for the film, the Japanese trailers, and a trailer for the third Naruto feature, Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom.(Rated T+ Older Teen; suitable for ages 12 and older: violence, grotesque imagery) --Charles Solomon
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While Naruto, Shikamaru and Sakura are returning a lost ferret to its owner, a young knight attacks them out of nowhere and they are drawn into a fier
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 Better Than I expected July 30, 2010
Superman
I just saw the first movie "Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow" and was very pleased with it. It was a great movie then I decided I needed to get the 2nd (and of course I have now ordered the 3rd too). When I heard that Gaara and Shikamaru were in this one I REALLY wanted to see it as they are two of my favorite characters. The movie started out very good Showcasing Gaara and Kankuro mid battle but sadly they didn't see as much screen time as I would have hoped, that didn't take away from the movie though. My one grip is that between what was going on with Gaara and his people and Naruto and his friends wasn't linked together very well and to me they seemed to be going in to separate ways till almost the end of the movie. All in all I was alot happier with this one than the First movie and now I can't wait to see movie 3 "Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom"
The second film in the Naruto anime franchise July 13, 2010
Lesley Aeschliman (Enumclaw, WA)
Naruto the Movie 2: Legend of the Stone of Gelel is the second theatrical film in the Naruto franchise. When watching the film, it was obvious a lot of effort went into rendering the backgrounds. However, the animation of the characters was not as strong as in the first film. Shikamaru and Kankuro both received consistently bad animation. The animation for Sakura would fluctuate being rather good to being very poor. While Naruto tended to get good animation, there were sections where he would occasionally get some bad animation. Gaara and the new characters all seemed to get consistently good animation.
When Legend of the Stone of Gelel was released on DVD, it was released as a two-disc set. The first disc contained the film, while the second disc had all the special features. For set up, there is a section to choose audio and subtitle options. For audio, there is supposed to be English 5.1, English Stereo, Japanese 5.1, and Japanese Stereo. However, if you select Japanese Stereo, it plays the English Stereo audio instead. The only way to hear the Japanese audio on this release is to select Japanese 5.1. There is also a section where you can turn on the audio commentary and to turn on the Pop-Up Naruto Guides.
The second disc contains seven extras. The first is a fourteen-and-a-half minute long documentary called, "Creating the World of Naruto the Movie 2." Over the course of this documentary, various people involved with the production (the Production Supervisor, a Co-Producer, the ADR Producer, the ADR Director, and the Associate Producer), as well as the English voices for Sakura, Naruto, Haido, Gaara, Shikamaru, Kankuro, Temujin, Kahiko, Fugai, and Ranke are interviewed.
The second feature is a twenty-two minute documentary titled, "Write amd Adapt like a Ninja." Everyone from the first documentary, as well as a few additional staff members, talk about the steps that take place to produce the English dub of the film. They talk about the direct translation script, script adaptation, and the voice acting stage. The bulk of the documentary focuses on the voice acting.
The third feature is "Words From Japan." This is an eight-minute interview with the Japanese Director and Character Designer. This feature is in Japanese with English subtitles, and has occasional scenes from the film in English edited into it. The fourth feature is a production art gallery, which is eighteen pages of line art of the new characters introduced in the film. The fifth feature is labeled as "Original Storyboards." This is done as a thirty-one minute slideshow, where each page of storyboard is only up for a couple of seconds before moving on to the next one. You really don't have time to make out what it is you're seeing before the slideshow moves on.
The sixth feature is "Original Japanese Movie Trailers." They are all in Japanese, but there are no subtitles. This feature, which is all one chapter, runs for about eight minutes and contains eighteen trailers in all. Some of the trailers are so similar to each other, that you swear that someone made a mistake and put the same trailer in several times in a row. The final feature is the English trailer for the third Naruto film, Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom.
Even with its faults, this movie needs to be in the DVD collection of anyone who considers themselves a fan of Naruto.
In order to write this review, I checked out a copy of this DVD through the King County Library System.
WONDERFUL!!! JUST WONDERFUL! February 5, 2010
L. Soles (Austin,TX USA)
This Movie was awesome! I had never seen it fully till i decided to buy it. I found it at a great price and it came Quick about a 4 day wait. With the new series coming on TV I wanted to get up to dated and with this movie i have. The whole plot was great and it had my favorite people and some new ones I Like now. One of the best Naruto Movies ever made! Buy it! You will be glad you did!
awsome May 20, 2009
Jesse Bennett (sjafb, NC)
matched what i ordered perfectly, wasn't sure if it was dubbed or not, luckily it was english
This Movie is Gaara-eat! December 16, 2008
Jorge Figueiredo (Toronto, Ontario Canada)
Naruto The Movie 2: Legend of the Stone of Gelel
The second of the Naruto movies finds our hero teaming up with some of the sand Shinobi to fight some enemies that have never been encountered before. How will they fare? Well considering I just reviewed the third movie and Naruto was in that one, probably fairly well. ;)
As usual, top-notch quality.
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