In the end all you are giving are lame excuses for what the creator doesn't explain properly. Nothing conclusive. And there is always conclusiveness, because if there is not, then there is something missing, and that is what I'm getting at. Naruto the series never give anything conclusive in the abilities of a ninja or how strong people actually are (no matter what type of battle strategy they use or what kind of fighting style they have).

And the battles themselves are excessive, what is the point in having Gaara waste his chakra chasing Deidara in the air when he knows he won't be able to catch him unless something significant happens to Deidaras form of transportation. Basically, he needs to move slower for Gaara to hit.

And since Gaara is the target, all he needs to do in strategy is to concerve his energy and wait for an opening.

There are countless battles that would have gone nowhere if the one being targeted didn't make an obviously stupid move. Well, there is also the possibility of the creator actually thinking the battles through. The beginning of the series, with Haku and Zabuza shows much more tactics and smarts in battle than the fights later on in the series. Not to mention people making moves when they have to, and not in vain. Not that these fights are perfect.

Not to mention the whole Ninjas are to be concealed, Yet for some reason there are always one on one fights out in the open.

Oh oh, and the Rock Lee "all we have to do is become stronger than we were" which is physically impossible after being drained for who knows how long.

Don't try to protect obvious flaws in a series, it makes you look like a morron.

But to state one more obvious flaw, lets jump over to Kage bunshin no jutsu. It divides the users chakra equally through all the bunshins he creates (and of course equal to his own amount). It must cost nothing in chakra to actually do the jutsu, which is also very odd since all jutsus take chakra to create. But for the sake of argument. Naruto divides into 3 people, thus, his chakra is a third of what it first was, then suddenly he uses it again and this time he uses 4 clones, making his chakra 1/5 of that third that he had. No matter how huge his chakra is in normal state (which it isn't), he would be running so low on chakra he would soon be running out of breath. This is just following basic logics. And when he divides himself into 1000 or so many clones (judging from his fight with Gaara with the 2000 fists and whatnot). That would make him have 1/1000 of his original chakra.

Now I don't know if you play Final Fantasy 7, but having a gravity that works THAT well, anyone would die for. Meaning making that many clones is a suicide no matter how you look at it since there are only two outcomes in Naruto when it comes to kage bunshin no jutsu.

1. Either he kicks the persons lilly ass totally without even losing a bunshin or
2. All of his bunshins are "poofed" to smitherines.

And for the sake of argument, let us demonstrate this in mathematics. 100 000 in chakra (HP if you want). Divide this in 1000 and you get 100. Meaning that after he loses his clones, he is a finger-flick from being dead in RPG-terms. And that is not taking into the account that it actually takes chakra to make a kage bunshin, or at least it takes for each time you decide to make one or more (every time you use the hand seal to make). And since we both know that it takes a high level ninja to be able to perform, we should be able to assume that it would take at least some level of chakra more than the amount for say... bunshin no jutsu or henge. So to be nice, say that it only takes 100 to make kage bunshin no jutsu no matter what the amount is. then we have 100 000 - 100 which is 99 900. that divided with 1000 is 99.9.

Do I have to keep going? Okey, I actually like making you look like a fool.

In Claymore they talk a lot about useless motion, but those awesomely wicked chicks haven't seen anyone in Naruto move.

You can't disagree with basic logics that this anime isn't very well thought through when it comes to battle (other than making it feel great and look awesome). If you do I sense a black bird will soon fly past you screaming "ahou, ahou, ahou desu ka".