* FirstInstallmentWins: Of all the movies, this one is considered by many to be their very favorite, even after the release of all the others so far. It's so popular that often times this is the ''only'' movie that FanFic writers adapt for their stories.
* HarsherInHindsight: Naruto's line "Man, I don't know where you got your taste in men, Sakura, but it stinks," which Sakura gets [[BerserkButton hilariously mad about.]] Well, considering what we saw in ''Shippuden'' and ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'', he's not wrong.
* HeartwarmingInHindsight: In one scene, Naruto gripes about how awesome his life would be if he could save a princess. [[spoiler:Well, not only does he save one in this movie, but he also saves one in ''Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie'' and that princess, Hinata, becomes his wife.]]
* InformedWrongness: Yukie's reluctance to return to the Land of Snow is actually understandable once you learn about her DarkAndTroubledPast and her EvilOverlord uncle, even more so when he slaughters LaResistance midway through the film (after which, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold she even tells everyone else to leave before the same happens to them]])... yet Naruto and co. still deride her as a cowardly pessimist. Really, if not for the good guys' lucky breaks at the end, she would've been 100% ProperlyParanoid.
* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The animation quality is astounding compared to most episodes of the main anime series.
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