Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Teodora Black butler is an interesting manga with a Faustian tale at the heart of it .This movie is not like the manga.In the manga,we have a boy named Ciel .Here we have a girl named Shiori,who is Ciel's descendant.Setting and the time of action is also different.One thing I did not like was the character of Shiori's aunt.She is annoying and not as near as touching as Ciel's aunt,Angelina Burnett,called Madam Red.Ayami Goriki acts very good and gives us to feel Shiori's(Ciel's)bitterness and anger,but at the same time a very touching heart,although she can be melodramatic.Best acting came from Hiro Mizushima ,who played a demon Sebastian.He showed us both Sebastian's sense of danger and allure and at the same time his playfullness and wit(he also has the best lines).I did think they could have strengthen his hair though.Overall,an interesting movie.

irelishpickles I tried to watch the anime version, and was never able to get into it. I was really not expecting much from this movie. Boy was I surprised!I loved this movie. I watched it twice, and loved it more the second time. The directing was incredible! Everything from eye movements to the silences was planned out to perfection. The fight scenes were interesting to watch. The choreography looked like dancing. That is high praise from me. I generally don't like fight scenes. The actor cast as Sebastien didn't just play the part, he became Sebastien. He really was perfect for the roll. However, I am really disappointed by all the people who didn't understand the final scenes of this movie. This movie was not a romance! Sebastien is a demon for heaven's sake! He does not love. I think a lot of fans of the manga/anime are just looking for anything to gripe about, and not looking at this movie for what it really is. Minor Spoilers Below:How did so many of these reviewers miss the symbolism of Shiori's struggle up the stairs as Sebastien watched from below? I guess none of you are familiar with Stairway to Heaven? Did you also not notice that at that the exact moment she made it to the top, the music cut to the sound of the people praying in the Cathedral?The reason why Sebastien saved Shiori was purely selfish. It had nothing to do with love. He saved her because at that moment in time her soul was pure. She willingly sacrificed herself to save thousands. If you take the prayers at the cathedral into account, you might even say that she was acting on God's behalf. He couldn't eat her soul, so he saved her knowing that in the future her soul would be darker.He even says as much. He doesn't try to hide the fact at all. Yet for some reason a lot of you still think this movie was a romance. Even my teenagers got it...

3xHCCH "Black Butler" is a beloved manga that my daughter and friends liked very much. So when a movie version came out, they were all excited to go see it. I have not read the manga "Kuroshitsuji" yet, so I felt I needed to see the film first myself before she does to see if it is okay for her age group. The local film classification board had rated it R- 13, but they had not been entirely consistent the way they classify films per appropriate age.The beginning narration sets the film in a near future time, when the world was divided into East and West. The West was headed by a Queen who sent her "watchdogs" to keep her enemies at check. In such a world, a "Demon's Curse" killer is going around killing diplomats by some sort of gruesome instant mummification process. Alarmed, the Queen chooses an orphaned aristocrat, Earl Genpo Kiyoharu, as her "watchdog" to get to the bottom of this matter. The young Earl has under his service a butler of many skills, Sebastian, who does whatever his young master wills him to. It turns out that Sebastian's talents are because of his demonic nature, for which the Earl will have to pay for with his soul. I believe that this film deviates much from the book by making Kiyoharu to be actually a girl Shiori pretending to be a boy in order to secretly exact revenge on her parents' killers. This also made it possible for a love angle to develop between master and servant, which of course was not in the original manga. The original setting in the manga was Victorian England, but here we only get the Victorian-looking grand manor and colorful gardens of the Genpo family instead.The opening sequence alone where Sebastian takes on an entire warehouse full of gangsters only with his butter knife sets the incredible whimsical tone for the whole film. There would be violent fight scenes, murder scenes, death scenes, as well as scenes of drug abuse, and the disturbing demonic subplot, which would automatically make this film rated R-16 in my book. In between these violent scenes though, the film's momentum dips a lot with long talky explanatory scenes.The acting department is on the campy side. The lead actors playing Sebastian and Kiyoharu are both androgynous-looking which seems to be the current rage among the younger generation. There was even more campy acting from the actors playing the clumsy maid Lynn and Kiyoharu's guardian, his Auntie Hanae. All the one-dimensional villains they faced also come from the same school of exaggerated campy acting.Overall, this is a confused film with a rather convoluted plot which did not have a clear direction that it wanted to take. If we were to only judge it with this film, it does make me wonder what those fans of the original manga loved in it. This film alone is occasionally entertaining anyway but it most probably could have been done or adapted much better than what came out now.

jeremy92288-908-513119 why in the hell did they make this story of black butler into a damn dark romance why for the love of god why i wanted to see her die but No he had to fall in love with her damn it just damn it all why could this not just have Ciel in it that was the story why change it and people would have liked it more as a gay story anyway why did she change it i like the story i like the anime even season 2 i like but this movie as far as it goes for me is not a part of the story its not dead this movie never happen as far for me this movie did not happen making it into a damn romance is SO damn stupid i wish it was like the book not this please for the love of god not this