Rosa de Versalhes

With barely 2 hours, it was clear that the feature film would cut many things present in the manga and the old anime from which this film is based, but the things absent are really too many.

They have sacrificed many elements in this film that are fundamental to fully understanding this work, starting with the most obvious one: having a female protagonist forced to grow up and act as a man, which is more prominently introduced here at more than 30 minutes after the incipit, but still coming across as always oversimplified in the overall. Even the other events that are more closely linked to actual history, and which should have a greater impact on Marie Antoinette's growth, are treated with extreme speed; everything is oversimplified in this film, in a decidedly negative way.

Unfortunately all expectations were confirmed: redundant, cloying film, forced musical interludes, little pathos and unfortunately the characters are without charisma.

Such a wasted opportunity to do something memorable because of the music used. The music is unoriginal, tacky and just out of place. If the style of the music resembled a bit the style of the music of the era could have been a GREAT musical to watch. Instead, the story runs too fast and waste so much time in music that isn't memorable and it's just out of context.

Those musical moments are supposed to fill up parts of the story, but they don't because they stay in the shallow end.

The relationship between characters isn't understood at all; it all seems too fast in the end, and we don't get to see the guillotine or the moment when the monarchs are taken into custody.

The designs, costumes, and all the aesthetic side area gorgeous reinterpretation of an old classic, but that's it.

What gave beauty to the series was the music.

Here the music was replaced with unnecessary childish songs!!!!!. No touching music was added!!

The original work was very luxurious and touching and was engraved in our memory.

This work does not live up to the standard. Not effective and very childish as if it was intended for a 5 year old...

Since you made the same faces, why didn't you make the same general atmosphere that is touching and loved by young and old?????

When Andre and Oscar died in the series, we cried for days!!

The scene here didn't get its due here!! Unnecessary effects and scenes.

When I was a child, this story moved and shocked me deeply. I had high hopes for MAPPA's theatrical version, but to my dismay, not even 20 minutes in, I was already thinking, "What am I watching?" and "Did I open the wrong movie?" I barely lasted an hour before giving up. Throughout the viewing, I couldn't connect with the characters' emotions at all. The story, which should have resonated deeply with the audience, felt completely hollow. The scene transitions were jarring, and even the use of music felt off and disconnected from the narrative-as if they just wanted to rush through the story.

This was originally a story rich with a strong sense of its era. I still remember how heartbreaking it was to see André die when I watched it as a kid. Oscar was such a stunningly cool woman. But the 2025 theatrical version had none of that! It tried to compress a story that originally took many episodes to tell into just two hours. Naturally, the screenplay should've carefully chosen which parts to keep or cut, and there was no way the original pacing could be copied wholesale. After about an hour, I just felt the pacing was all over the place, and I had no idea what the storytelling was trying to convey. Many scenes were delivered in such awkward ways that I found myself constantly thinking, "Uhh... what?"-completely speechless.

Three stars: one for Hiroyuki Sawano's music, one for the voice actors who clearly understood their roles, and one for the beautiful visuals. That's it. Regardless of the medium-anime, novel, manga, live-action TV, or film-the story and writing are absolutely critical. But in this film, I saw no evidence of thoughtful screenwriting or post-production effort.

Take NieR, for example-originally a game adapted into an anime. You could tell the writers put in real effort to weave the entire story together. Even though they changed the order of events or tweaked some scenes, they still managed to faithfully recreate the narrative and evoke genuine emotion in the audience. That's something the 2025 Rose of Versailles movie completely failed to do.

Those who fell for the original series were compelled by the intense and sweeping storyline that was driven by the main characters and negating nearly all background characters who were also important to moving the story makes this series that feels like an empty and shallow world of what was a cult classic that moved and inspired other works. When Lady Oscar would fight, she did not hold back, she was colder for longer, and the films sort of takes that from her with the pacing between the musical numbers and story created too much overwhelm to actually enjoy the film. Her character was compromised for flashy ensembles and I highly suggest to watch the original series entirely before attempting to watching this hectic overview. That being said the artwork is one of its strengths and it was refreshing to see an attempt at this pivotal series. I'm not mad, just disappointed.