• wala bang bago dito na episode........?

• I think he'd prolly find a way to do Zelda too. 

• A few things that might help: First, know that Avatar, like Teen Titans and many other recent cartoons, is not an anime, though it is heavily influenced by anime style. The difference would be that anime is, by definition, produced in Japan.  Second, there are many varieties of anime (just like there are many varieties of cartoons in the rest of the world. The type of anime you're describing is usually referred to as "shounen" (boy) anime. It is usually based on a character or group of characters who start as weak and, though multiple arcs, get stronger and stronger as they face stronger and stronger enemies. There is character development, but it is often secondary to the fight scenes. Shoujo (girl) anime, similarly, often revolves around a girl or group of girls who either have similar fight arcs patterns or romantic storylines (often still with some action). Of course, there are exceptions to these rules, and the rules themselves as I have described them are very general. There is also anime that is based solely around character interaction and growth, sometimes with  action, sometimes not. It's not all shinobi and gundams. Death Note comes to mind (though I haven't seen the actual anime, just read the manga) as an example of an anime that defies the typical stereotypes mentioned above. It's all in what you watch.  I hope this helped. I wasn't trying to be bitchy or snooty, just saying that, if you really wanna see some anime, there are good ones out there. There are also hopelessly awful ones. It's just like every other country's television. 

• Respectfully, yes it is. It is officially the worst movie I've seen in years. I couldn't even finish it, and i had watched 5 or 6 episodes of the show. It was awful. 

• You should check out the first Naruto series. It's much more compelling than most of the animes out there. It has a great story and a lot of character development. Yeah I liked Avatar as well, but Naruto is on a completely different level. There is so much more to this anime than just cool fight scenes. People always talk about the fighting because its essential and important to the story. Trust me watch at least the first 10 episodes. You wont regret it. Stay away from Shippuden though.(second series) Its pretty terrible.

• Honestly, I've never seen Naruto at all.  My knowledge of anime is fairly sparse, and I was making a more general comment about anime.  This video may well have been an accurate depiction of Naruto, and Naruto may be widely considered a great achievement in anime.  This is sort of what I wonder about, because I have seen anime that I liked (Avatar) and hoped that it was representative of the form so that I could someday become an anime fan.  Instead, it seems like every time I hear/read anime fans praising something it's mostly focused around flashy fight scenes or how big the "scope" is.  These are, in my humble opinion, not a great basis for a show.  I'm not against fight scenes or war movies, but in any form of fiction I look for interesting characters who go through interesting developmental arcs, with everything else a distant second.   I don't know why, but the example that always strikes me is Flame of Recca.  A friend made me watch it in college, and it was terrible.  It's just a long series of fights, and it's boring as hell, to me at least.  If that's what draws most people to anime, I guess I'll close the door on being interested.  

• He does open all three in the film, he just opens them in succession.

• I get the feeling you are not a Naruto fan.  This film does a really good job emulating the show, not just in the fight scenes but also showing the training and building the characters.  I am a huge fan of Naruto and I really enjoyed it.  I realize that the show is not everyone's cup of tea and I accept that.  But as for how well the film emulates the show, they were pretty close to spot on.

• He did Damage his body in the fight with Gara, but tha tis not why he can't use Ninjutsu or Genjutsu.  He was born that way.  He has never been able to use them.  That was why they tried to get him not to be a Ninja in the first place.  Guy Sensei took him on because he had such a strong dream and the passion of youth.

• You know, if someone gave Robin Williams his own directing studio and a budget, you know the first thing he'd probably make would be a Neon Genesis Evangelion movie. Dude freaking loves that show.

• The figting in this is fantastic, I'm not much of a fna of naruto but I can at least enjoy such fine fan work. I wish they would do a fan video for Garo but that would cost a hell of a lot of money.

• Is "special effecta" a real term now? Because if it isn't, I declare that it should be.

• That's for the Extended Edition cut, to be released next year.

• I bought the whole original series entirely on the basis of the strength of the PS3 adaptation of it (and watching the first few eps free online), and still haven't gotten around to watching it. This reminds me I want to, though.

• To be fair, even Japanese filmmakers have a difficult time translating anime or manga to live-action. I can think of exactly one success offhand: Space Battleship Yamato. Anyone know another example...?

• Yes, but it probably made as much money as the Dragonball attempt. This is despite being (in principle) massively accessible to American audiences in almost every way (its borderline retarded version of "Speed" himself excepted.)

• hollywood sux balls. damn listen to the fans, look at what we do, and maby just maby u guys can finally make a decent dragonball movie. THOUSAND POUNDS PLEASE BLESS US WITH A REAL DRAGON BALL Z MOVIE SHOW THESE BASTEREDS HOW ITS DONE PLEASE

• Wow, that was a boring fight. I stopped half way through the scene. Someone should tell their cameraman that cutting down the shutter angle like that actually captures LESS of the action, which really looks bad when you ARE FILMING AN ACTION SEQUENCE.

• Although as it is now, Naruto basically destroys Lee without even thinking about it. Naruto has hit  I beat up old Hokages for breakfast status. Poor Lee.

• don't blame it all on people in hollywood like writers or directors, it's Producers and Studio execs who ruin movies with shit like "does hellboy have to be named hellboy, can't he be called Heckboy or maybe Badboy. And does he have to be Red, red doesn't seem to fit him, make him green, that's in with the kids after that Hulk movie thing." <---an example of an actual thing thrown at Del Toro when he was directing the first Hellboy film. Money usually tells the directors what they can and cannot do in their studio.

• Great stuff. One nitpick: doesn't Rock Lee have to go through the first two Gates before opening the third one? For those who never read or watched <i>Naruto</i>: this is a forbidden jutsu due to the unholy strain it puts on the body.

• I thought I made it clear that Lee couldn't use anything beyond hand-to-hand stuff. Didn't know about "damaged chakra coils," though. You think that could be diagnosed in utero? Y'know, assuming sonograms exist in that universe. Tech availability kinda depends on the story (walkie-talkies, big screens, etc.). Anyway, sorry if I wasn't clear about the kid not being able to do ninja tricks.

• Almost right kinda. Lee didn't just start out with Taijutsu, he literally cannot use anything else. He has damaged chakra coils, which is what moves chakra throughout the body, so he cannot channel the energy needed for Ninjutsu (anything that does a physical effect) or Genjutsu (anything that is mental, like illusions). This limitation means that he only practices fighting hand to hand, so he is pretty one of the best at Taijutsu in the series, but his lack of other techniques has always been a burden to him. Rest of your statements looks fine.

• What you gotta know is that Rock Lee is known for his limitations. In the world of <i>Naruto</i>, ninja can use three types of jutsu: ninjutsu (awesome ninja tricky like the Shadow Clone Jutsu), genjutsu (I think this is bloodline-realted jutsu . . . somebody correct me if I'm wrong) and taijutsu (fighting stuff). Lee started out with only a tiny bit of taijutsu, so he had to work really hard on that. He's not a mopey type, but he constantly wants to prove himself. Having a sensei as hilariously overzealous as Might Guy didn't hurt, either. Naruto is another kid that wants to prove himself. He possesses the spirit of a nine-tailed fox, hence the excessive chakra to pull off shitloads of Ninja Clones and the Rasangan. Naruto can be annoying, but his head's usually in the right place. I don't know if that clears things up. If you gotta see a fight from the anime, check out the battle between Rock Lee and Gaara. Gaara's kinda like Naruto, but at that point in the show, he was the scariest motherfucker around.

• Wrong analogy.  You should've mentioned Dragon Ball Evolution instead.

• Why would you want it fucked up by being made by hollywood.

• It was good though, right?

• Speed Racer by the Wachowski's was an attempt at this, and we know how that turned out.

• Meh, Avatar really didn't live up to the show, but I think it gets too much crap.  It's certainly not very good, and not nearly as good as it should have been, but it's not horrible.

• This was still better than all of m. night shyamalan's Avatar crapfest.

• Id love it if these guys got a small budget to go off and make a film on Street fighter, Mortal Kombat, Naruto, Bleach etc They could do far more with $20,000 than hollywood could do with hundreds of millions.

• Damn I have not read the Naruto manga or watched the anime in such a long time. This makes me want to watch the series all over again. 

• It captured the essence of the show pretty well.

• It's clearly just a case of Conservation of Ninjitsu: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ConservationOfNinjutsu

• This is certainly one of the best choreographed fight scenes I've scene in a long time, but it's true that shounen simply doesn't translate well to live action. As good looking as this was it would be hard to convince me to pick Naruto of all anime to make a feature film out of. Frankly, I've only ever seen two full length animated movies based on shounen that I really thought would be worth watching in theaters, and they were both One Piece.

• I've never seen any of the real Naruto, but this was totally kickass

• Alright, now that I've actually watched it, I can comment a little more accurately: that was pretty crappy.  Sure, it had good bits, and for a (I'm assuming) no budget near fan film, it's cool.  But I don't think very many people would watch two hours of that.  Several minutes are just that dude training, which was boring, but can be acceptable if the larger film is compelling, so I'll give it a pass.  Some of the shots of nature, etc. were legitimately good.  The fight choreography was decent, but overall the thing was boring.  It's just a long fight scene, which is what I think non-experts in anime think anime is all about.  Again, I've seen good anime, and I'm nowhere near versed enough to make many assumptions, but from reading comments from anime fans I get the distinct impression that they just find the fight scenes more impressive in and of themselves than I do.

• The reason there's not much excitement in Hollywood for a live action anime movie is that they, like much of the country, don't understand anime very well.  There are tons and tons of anime films and series out there, and like most forms, most of it is utter crap.  I can't speak to Naruto, because I haven't seen it, but for every great anime with interesting character development and emotional arcs, there are three that are just boring stylized fighting with terrible dialog.  On top of that, add the fact that the Avatar movie, an adaptation of one of the most high profile series, bombed (and yes, it really wasn't nearly as good as the series) and I can't see much reason for Hollywood to be falling over itself to make anime movies. It's going to take some gutsy film maker making a huge hit on a small budget for Hollywood to pay attention.  Or maybe George Lucas self-finances something that is a big hit.

• Top notch directing and action. Sadly I have no idea what is going on (never seen the Anime) but from all the tired cliche's, "It's good I'm holding back!" and "Sorry *insert master's name here* but I have to use my forbidden *insert crazy attack name here*, I got the gist.

• There's nothing weird about Rock Lee whupping Naruto. He's quite simply the best character in the entire series. Anyone who tells you differently is a liar... alright, MAYBE Killer Bee. But those two are it.

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