Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-8284722-20141202185718/@comment-17623-20141207195250

Ooooh boy how did I miss this. I hope your anus is ready because this is about to be illegal in a lot of countries.

The change if concept is amusing but interesting. The concept of home and belonging was all but settled in Part I, as his talk with Gaara showed (He finally had friends whom he was willing to murder Gaara with his forehead to protect, thus filling in that hole of being alone and what not). Keeping that in Part II is an interesting choice, especially since the major theme of Part II was (apparently) "Friendship is the True Power". One thing that caught me was your decision to cut out Jiraiya's battle with Pain. Your idea is to have to movie about "Home" which is linked to "Family" and Jiraiya was basically his father, and it seems he's all but irrelevant to the film (not the plot, the film)

Once again, I think it's a little to ambitious to stick so many arcs into a single movie. Again unless you want to go Ten Commandments level of "You will be watching this until your eyes bleed out your anus", there are to many arcs going on to make the movie flow with any sort of consistency. As such, your attempt to try and get every member to shine will be destined to fail as the movie will be hilariously schizo with all the characters. Also of note, your idea to skip a lot of things and just reference them with flashbacks will do the film no favors and would just leave things like "Well why didn't I see this?" over just about everything. The only saving grace is that I would assume the third film would primarily be about Sasuke and thus flow somewhat better, but then you have that whole War issue and I feel that will end up just as schizophrenic. I'm not sure how I feel about Pain brutally murdering Naruto's friends, because it seems like a unnecessary measure to make Pain a hero-killer for the film because you rendered Jiraiya so unimportant.

The Hinata thing was just unnecessary. Like I literally facepalmed when I read it. Funny that you'd go that far mind you. But laughably unnecessary.

Overall, I think you'd benefit far better if you simply didn't follow the manga or established storylines at all and tried to tell the story your own way. Trying to add everything will only lead to a mess. Trying to change certain things to fit your desire of a better story while keeping other things appears as the ultimate fanwank. And quite frankly nothing can be done without it suffering from a "Last Airbender Syndrome", where a large canon is cut down and butchered in an attempt to show it in a film. Your best bet is to do what they started doing with the second Percy Jackson film and tell the story their own way, keeping the overall concept but saying "$(#@ that book!"