Black Butler (2014)

Pretty Good

Good start, but then it gets ruined

Boring

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

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.

Oh...so many faillures that I don't know where to begin.... Well, I just couldn't even bring myself to watch the whole thing. I wasn't expecting the movie to be the exact representation of the anime version, but I did was expecting it to have the feel and look of it. For starters, the casting of the main characters was quite unfortunate.There is no chemistry between them and the girl doesn't have the fragile image needed to make the butler presence more powerful which is a key element since that goes with the balance of the character's psychology that plays with the irony that, while the Butler is the servant of the Master, the Master is totally dependant on the Butler and somehow slaved to him by contract. In the movie case he looks just a servant. The acting was even more cartoonish than the anime itself. The actor portraying Sebastian, did somewhat nicely but lacked the character's distinction and charm, not to speak the sensuality.This guy looks more like a hairdresser than a butler. He constantly reminded me of one of those old commercials that tries too hard to sell cheap bath soap to illiterate housewives. The girl doing Ciel's "impression" is kind of cute but nothing more, lacking just the same attributes as the guy playing Sebastian, but adding the even less forgivable sin of not looking stylished at all. Not even like a hairdresser. It is obvious that the movie budget couldn't afford much in costumes desing either. That top hat looks horrendous on her, not to mention the terrifiying ugliness of the gigantic, stiff bow she wears in one of the first scenes. I mean, in the anime /manga, Ciel's style is absolutely exquisite and precisely his impeccable style is part of how the character is perceived so, the fact that the costumes didn't match that takes away a lot. As for the soundtrack, it didn't do much for me either. The whole thing is an effing school play.

This movie is pretty much every little white girls dream on the anime and manga series spat into one big mess of a movie. Modern day setting? Check. Female Ciel? Check. Ciel and Sebastian love story? Check. I'm still scratching my head at how somebody sat down and thought that this would be a good addition to such a fantastic series and even worse at the fact that it got approved. It has no redeeming features, even if you try, like I did after the first 15 minutes, as a completely different movie not from the franchise. It is just all around bad. Want to watch a really bad movie that at least tried to keep in check with your favorite anime? go watch the death note movies. I would not recommend this even if you were on a death bed of bordem.

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