There's a fanedit called Naruto Kai that condenses the episodes down into ~1.5 hour long volumes, which cuts out anime-original episodes and filler that exists within canon episodes.

Here's a spoiler- free chronological list of the CANON episodes and movies. Feel free to skip the rest

1. Naruto- ep 1 to 220

2. Naruto Shippūden: ep 1 to 56; ep 72 to 112; ep 113 to 143; ep 152 to 169, ep 172 to 175; ep 176 to 181: ep 197 to 222; ep 243 to 256; ep 261 to 270; ep 272 to 278; ep 282, 283; ep 296 to 302; ep 321 to 375; ep 378 to 387; ep 391 to 393; ep 414, 415, 417; ep 418 to 421; ep 424 to 426; ep 451 to 463, ep 470 to 479; ep 484 to 493

3. Naruto movie 'The Last'

4. Naruto Shippūden ep 494 to 500

5. Boruto

Skip them on first watch. Watch them later when you crave some light hearted humour

Check out these websites for filler list.

1. OG NARUTO FILLER LIST
2. NARUTO SHIPPUDEN FILLER LIST
3. BORUTO FILLER LIST

i have list of canon ep here

I would say no, and they actually contradict things in the manga and give you the wrong impression. They are best to be skipped in my opinion.

Kakashi anbu arc is pretty good .

Sometimes they're boring

HELL TO THE NO.

Nah

Yes, but it is not as big of a deal as people make it out to be.

There are a lot of reasons to dislike this anime, but the fillers just aren't one of them.

The anime definitely does have a lot of filler. Fortunately there are plenty of guides available online letting you know which episodes can be skipped.

The series is like 40ish percent pure filler episodes, and canon episodes are stretched out to death. Read the manga is my recommendation.

Can we also discuss the flashbacks and recaps?

It makes it impossible to watch. It cuts down on actual content and makes you feel like over half of what you're watching is just wasted screen time.

No, it's not exaggerated. Naruto is infamous for its fillers, about the third of series' episodes are filler.

Are they fun to watch? Some of them maybe. But it’s filler. It has nothing to tell storywise, nothing manga related. So yes, you are very save to skip them. But only the full filler episodes. There are some mixed canon/filler episodes.

I’d give them a watch once, some of them are really good, some are really bad, but you should find out for yourself. If you really like Naruto, I don’t think you’ll regret it.

No, go back and watch the ninja ostrich and mecha Naruto please. After that watch the one piece parody ones and watch Naruto and Guy fight high as hell on mushrooms.

if it is your first time watching i say watch everything bc imo you end up understanding more

I've watched through Naruto 4 times, including OG and Shipudden, I haven't seen a single episode from those last 3 seasons of OG Naruto lol.

Some of the filler in Shipudden you should definitely watch; the main two being Kakashi's backstory and Itachi's backstory.

I’m currently finishing up my re-watch of the canon part of OG naruto. I skipped the filler with Ibiki’s brother because it just made no sense to have Sasuke on a mission between his encounter with Itachi and leaving with the sound 4. I’m not sure if I will watch any of the filler before Shippuden.

I’ve never watched all of Shippuden so I’m excited to see some of the filler that expands on the manga

If you are saying filler only lasts 1 to 7 episodes then you are very early days in your rewatch.

Naruto and Shippuden are literally 40% filler.

Yes, there are the occasional single episodes or even minimal episode sections of filler that are pretty good. But in my opinion the filler completely ruined the pacing of the series as a whole.

The end of Naruto is when it really gets bad. There's like 70 episodes straight filler after the Sasuke retrieval arc.

Then in Shippuden basically every other arc is filler. And they aren't just up to seven episodes. There are like 20 to 40 episodes of filler at a time.

There's a ton of fillers, so just by statistics, some were good and some were bad. Personally, I enjoyed most of them because they expanded on characters' background or contributed to the world-building.

There will be the odd time that you meet a character, or hear characters reference events that you won't recognize if you skip the filler, but I personally don't think it'll take away from your viewing experience more than watching the filler would.

There are some filler arcs that are legitimately worth watching, but personally I'd watch the main series first and only watch the good filler on a rewatch. It's not worth it unless you already have an attachment to the Narutoverse and the characters within it.

I watched the entire Naruto anime probably more than 10x already... hahaha.. Including the filler episodes.. Sometimes they just play in the background while I do other important stuff.

Since it's your first time, perhaps skip em' so that you'll get the important stuff only first.

But watch em' next time.. there's some fun fillers in there. My fave is the one with Kakashi's mask, mission of Naruto and Shino, and Ichiraku Ramen mission. These fillers are so funny.. hehe

Personally, I don't like filler in any anime at all and I didn't watch the filler in Naruto. You could try watching a couple of episodes and if you like them, follow them, but if that's not your thing, you can skip them without a problem.

watch every filler episode twice

Some people love to watch everything, but most people skip all fillers and only watch ep 101; it is a fun ep.

There are also mixed filler/canon eps in OG Naruto and Naruto Shippuden, like:
OG Naruto: eps 136 to 142 (have some canon scenes) and ep 220 where the second half is canon.
Shippuden: ep 71 (end of the ep), ep 90, ep 112 and ep 179 (the beginning).

This post has some good filler suggestions to watch and will tell you how to watch some of the mixed eps

https://www.reddit.com/r/Naruto/comments/k2lsxi/ultimate_guide_to_watch_naruto/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Here are more good fillers suggestion:
For OG Naruto: If you're interested in Anko's backstory, then watch OG Naruto filler episodes 169 to 173.
For Shippuden: watch eps 176 to 178, ep 234 and ova7 (after ep 256).
Some of the movies are decent too

Make sure to watch them only after you finish all canon eps before them

I like filler episodes too.
When an anime/manga is good, normally the filler episodes are good too and add interesting content to the story. Especially relating to character development.

And some are just entertaining/funny and actually enjoyable to watch.

I myself like most of the fillers :-) Several of them are faves of mine!

Nothing wrong with filler, some are actually really good but the 80 or so episodes we had at the end of Naruto? It's hard to tell people to watch them

I’d watch it at least once if I were you. Some of them are good and also they help make you care about some of the less known characters.

watch 101 in the original naruto and skip everything else. Though some of the episodes are filler but have canon bits, like the finale of the original naruto.

For reference

For Naruto Part 1, watch up to episode 135, then episode 220(last half of the episode, the first part is half filler). Ideally watch some episodes in between.

For Shippuden here are the filler episodes(I’ll recommend certain episodes)

57-71(must watch)

91-112(must watch)

144-151(must watch)

170-171(dont need to watch )

176-196(recommend watch the first 4 episodes of these, also 190 is also a really good episode)

223-242(don’t need to see, but some episodes are funny, especially 241)

257-260( recap of Part 1)

279-281(part of the overall arc that is happening, 281 is important to watch to understand the Will Of Fire(if you don’t understand yet that’s fine))

284-289(don’t need to watch, but helps with worldbuilding)

290-295(Power Arc, think a movie split into 6 episodes, doesn’t relate with the arc that happens after these episodes)

303-320(part of the episodes on the overall arc, I recommend 318 and 320)

347-361(a must see arc)

389-390(dont need to watch)

394-413(don’t need to watch)

416(it helps the surrounding by episodes)

422-423(episodes that shows how a certain character did something)

427-450(I recommend to see 427-431 to better understand certain characters, the rest is optional but watching it will also help you understand certain character dynamics)

464-469(helps you the viewer understand character dynamics)

480-483(look backs into the lives of popular characters)

The dont need to watch episodes aren’t necessary but recommended as they can explain small character dynamics. Anything not listed here is too be watched.