Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24142271-20140918120849/@comment-3261234-20140918130221

FF-Suzaku wrote: You guys are being sarcastic, yeah? The animation (and I use the term loosely) was pathetic. The characters were poorly drawn in most scenes and the animation was extremely limited (sliding stills, minimal movement with camera panning, avoiding tweening by using jump cuts in the action scenes, etc.). I'm frankly surprised that there wasn't more stock footage.

Huge disappointment, IMO, given the importance of the subject matter. Agreed, the anime did cover all the manga scenes, but in a VERY poor way, especially when you compare it to episode 375. Massive letdown.