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Speaker: Butlers in Love Follow Emma and Henry as they train to become royal butlers.
Speaker: The competition is fierce and sparks fly.
Speaker: One out of ten stars Just no. Ridiculous premise.
Speaker: Terrible acting.
Speaker: I made it about 30 minutes and had to turn it off.
Speaker: The female lead has spent ten years aspiring to be a butler and finally gets into butler school and doesn't know how to set a table or iron a tablecloth.
Speaker: Most people who have this goal would go into the school knowing the hows of basic tasks.
Speaker: She spouts lengthy explanations of the history, but can't manage a simple task.
Speaker: LEED also makes ridiculous claims like, Butler school is harder to get into than law school.
Speaker: The male lead knows everything and can do everything because he is a legacy butler as he is just one in a long line of butlers in the family.
Speaker: But he really doesn't want to buttle. Too stupid for words.
Speaker: One out of ten stars.
Speaker: run out of ideas, have we? Yet another hyenas Hallmark movie.
Speaker: They seem to have completely run out of ideas that they think Butler's falling in love is interesting.
Speaker: And is there much of a story beyond pretty girl and handsome guy meeting?
Speaker: meeting
Speaker: One out of ten stars.
Speaker: Where was the romance?
Speaker: It was an interesting concept. However, there was zero chemistry between the two leads.
Speaker: The interaction amongst the cast was dull, and really the characters were annoying.
Speaker: He couldn't tell his dad he didn't want to be a butler.
Speaker: She thought being a butler would offer her an opportunity to see the world and meet important people.
Speaker: Little does she know, when you serve others, your mouth remains shut, and you are viewed as the hired help.
Speaker: She went through all that schooling and two days in called it a day and quit.
Speaker: It was silly.
Speaker: The ending probably was the most irritating part.
Speaker: This one was a no for me.
Speaker: One out of ten stars.
Speaker: Ridiculous.
Speaker: I hate to be negative, but this movie is so stupid.
Speaker: The premise was strange from the beginning, but I was determined to give it a shot.
Speaker: The main character is such a contradiction.
Speaker: This has been her dream for more than ten years, but she can't iron or cook grilled cheese
Speaker: For all the clumsiness and distraction, why wouldn't she just not stand next to him?
Speaker: I made it thirty minutes exactly.
Speaker: D.N.F. One out of ten stars.
Speaker: Really, Hallmark? This has to be one of the most ridiculous storylines ever.
Speaker: In all my years of living, I've never met a single person who aspired to become a butler.
Speaker: Completely stupid.
Speaker: And she was so excited to be there.
Speaker: Legacy Butlers
Speaker: Eyeroll Seems that for every one good Hallmark movie, there's ten bad ones.
Speaker: The movies are getting more dismal as time goes in.
Speaker: Lately, there's better ones to be found on UP TV, GAC Family,
Speaker: crime IMDb TV and Netflix.
Speaker: Get a clue, Hallmark. Bring up your quality or lose viewers.
Speaker: Two out of ten stars. Another dud.
Speaker: A bit of a different setting. A butler school. Not sure why a butler school.
Speaker: unless the school needs an advertising boost.
Speaker: Both stars were very unrefined.
Speaker: I assume that if one wanted to be a servant to the wealthy, one would speak and act better.
Speaker: A yes sir ma'am answer would be preferred instead of yup.
Speaker: And there is no way A butler would bring four plates to a wealthy household at dinner, the same as in a common restaurant.
Speaker: The plates would be brought out in a tray and served singularly.
Speaker: And there would be more than one butler serving at a dinner party.
Speaker: And anyone who works in a restaurant and not a bar would know that the knife blade faces towards the plate.
Speaker: If this were a real scenario, she would have been pra practicing place settings before she arrived.
Speaker: And she would have had both cufflinks in her shirt.
Speaker: Women butlers slash maids wear skirts, not pants.
Speaker: Hallmark should know this.
Speaker: Hallmark should have learned by all the other dud movies. Quality should be before quantity.
Speaker: Two out of ten stars. Hallmark failing.
Speaker: I've been called a Hallmarkophile. But if they keep putting out garbage like this, I may need to move on.
Speaker: How can people who got into an institute... that's harder to get into than law school.
Speaker: wouldn't be so bad at simple tasks and wouldn't be so flippant about things like getting out of bed.
Speaker: And once again, the lead is so unlikable.
Speaker: Hallmark, you're about to lose a regular.
Speaker: Two out of ten stars. at your service.
Speaker: Most of the 2022 New Year New Movies films were quite impressive, despite a rocky start with Where the Heart Belongs.
Speaker: the wedding veil being the best. quite like the premise for butlers in love at first.
Speaker: It was a different location and not one of the ones one has seen many times with Hallmark.
Speaker: And it did sound like it had potential to be quite fun if done well.
Speaker: The negative reviews, though, did dampen expectations.
Speaker: And most of the particularly negatively received Hallmark films seen in the past year or so have been that bad.
Speaker: Unfortunately, Butler's in Love, as much as it pains me to say, it is one of the films that is that bad.
Speaker: There are far worse films out there for sure, but it is very rare for a cool-sounding and different location for Hallmark to be completely wasted.
Speaker: wast it It is one of the worst films. twenty twenty two hallmark films
Speaker: Up to this still early stage, only cut color, murder was on its same level of badness.
Speaker: and replaces where the heart belongs as the worst of the new year new movies batch.
Speaker: That is no easy feat. Butler's in love has some nice photography and scenery.
Speaker: That however, however pretty much it for the good things.
Speaker: Stacey Farber does try hard,
Speaker: but it never looked natural, and it was like she was overcompensating or panicking.
Speaker: Of all the female lead characters, of all of the recently seen Hallmark films,
Speaker: hers is up there as among the most unbearably irritating.
Speaker: It is yet another case of exaggerated flaws and her cluelessness and the number of times she messes up on even simple things is taken to vast extremes
Speaker: to the point of incompetence.
Speaker: Corey Colt is stiff and very vanilla in personality throughout, and his character's backstory is pure idiocy.
Speaker: The two have no chemistry together. Their rapport is constantly forced, and the romance is too hostile and underdeveloped for it to convince.
Speaker: Not even Maxwell Caulfield, here, looking bored and like he didn't want to be there, can save it.
Speaker: And basically, the whole cast either overact or phone in in caricaturish, idiotically written roles.
Speaker: The direction lacks any kind of distinction and is never in control or engagement with the material.
Speaker: The script is incredibly stilted and cheese-ridden.
Speaker: writtenden with the banter being more condescending and contrived than playful.
Speaker: The story manages to be be beyond ridiculous to the point of parody.
Speaker: is really contrived and lacks charm or heart.
Speaker: It also wins the award of a film having the most mistakes made by one character alone in its first third.
Speaker: And it doesn't get better the further the film drags on.
Speaker: absolutely agree with everybody saying that the ending is insulting and makes no sense almost like the rest of the film did not happen
Speaker: The music is forgettable at best and never fits.
Speaker: Concluding, very, very bad. Two out of ten
Speaker: Two out of ten stars.
Speaker: What fresh hell is this?
Speaker: Wow. Just when you think it can't get any worse, it does.
Speaker: An absolute waste of time.
Speaker: The female lead can't act her way out of a wet paper bag.
Speaker: and it's not helped by the fact... that her storyline is so really ridiculous.
Speaker: She wants to be a butler based on some TV show?
Speaker: She works in a restaurant but doesn't know how to correctly place silverware.
Speaker: The Butler Academy is harder to get into Harvard. harvard
Speaker: The male lead is a marginally better actor, but is given another idiotic backstory.
Speaker: How many young people enter a profession they hate because It's a family tradition anymore.
Speaker: Just tell the parents it's not happening and move on. The drama was ridiculous.
Speaker: No chemistry between the leads at all. And at the end, the female gets the job of her dreams.
Speaker: Apparently works one dinner and poof, the dream is over.
Speaker: Instead, has idea. an idea but it's never clear what that was.
Speaker: She becomes what? Some sort of leader of waiters? And her boyfriend becomes a chef at the same restaurant?
Speaker: Oh, how convenient.
Speaker: And the whole smooching in front of the staff was laughable.
Speaker: Two hours of my life, I will never get back.
Speaker: Hopefully, by this point, you've long since drifted off. But if not, won't you come along as I serve you another?
