Kuroshitsuji

Overly modernized in various ways, it only meets expectations when Sebastian takes out the dinner knives.

I think this film is based on an anime series. I don't know because I'm not into anime. However, I like Asian films and thought I'd give it a watch.

This film is about a girl who watched her parents be murdered. I don't really know how she came to do this but in some way she was assumed dead but had actually sold her soul to the devil in return for her ability to seek revenge. Her family were wealthy due to a toy empire but they are also in service to the Queen as her watchdogs. Being as how a woman was not going to be allowed to run the family, the girl returns to her home posing as a boy and takes on the family empire and the responsibility of the Queen's watchdog while also seeking her revenge. She is guarded by a butler who happens to be a demon who, upon achieving her vengeance, will devour her soul. She has to figure out the cause of a series of murders that are in some way linked to the death of her parents. That's all I'm gonna say about the plot.

I thought the film was a bit overloaded with information but it ended up being a good watch for me. There are some decent action scenes and there is a fairly decent storyline. I think it would've been better to have broke it up into two films so that everything could have been explained a bit better or with a bit more depth.

Not being a fan of anime, I didn't find this to be a bad film but it seems like fans of the anime story were disappointed. I dunno. I guess folks will have to draw their own conclusions. I found it to be interesting though.

I was new to the animated series which I loved so when I saw a live action version I was totally on board. And as usual film makers always think they can fix what isn't broken. Why on earth would they make Ceil a girl is beyond me and it was totally unnecessary! The charm of the animated series was the interplay between Sebastian and Ceil and changing Ceil into a girl changed the entire dynamic of the series! The actor playing Sebastian was good but the actress was horrible. This is an amazing series and they took all that was fantastic about it and made a mediocre film. BB deserved better!

Please forget the opinions of manga fundamentalists. To quote the Black Butler, "their opinions slightly fuel my wish for killing". They are not alone on this world and these movies are made for more general public who do not have encyclopedic knowledge of the respective fictive universes. So their fundamentalist dismissals of movies based on this argument are totally off the mark.

I have seen the Black Butler movie for the very first time and I have kinda liked it. Of course, there is an incredibly complex storyline that makes the Japanese stories hard to follow for us, the plain West village folks. It might be a hard thing to swallow for some but it is worth it.

The story is actually a near future sci-fi fantasy crime movie. Even though this might seem to be bizarre, it is actually very cool. The plot is somewhat familiar for the Westerners as it builds on the West culture. The uneasy relationship between the "master" and "servant", that is somewhere between the love and the hate is also very interesting. The "master" might seem spoiled and much more powerful "servant" might seem cold and cynical, but the ending is really powerful.

Forget the critics. This is very "above average" drama, a crime movie and a somewhat bizarre love story. Pretty much unforgettable experience. And yes, the opening sequence is one of the most amazing combat scenes I have seen: If you meet a well dressed butler with a butter knife asking politely for something, you should not laugh at him. You should not!

Now a review by someone who has read the manga and has seem the anime series.

It is a good and exciting movies. most scenes are retrieved from the anime, but have also given a new spin on each scene.the main character is different from the anime and the time-line is in the present.

I have heard some people say, that they find this a bad movie and it gives the anime a bad name. But I disagreed with them. I watch the whole movie and i wasn't disappointment.

I say, judge this movie in your own way and don't listen to others. I did like it and i gonna watch it maybe 2 a 3 times again in the future.

Greetz, Skipper P.s. Sorry for my bad Engish...