Movie Review - The Butterfly Effect

Until I can figure out how to make a separate link to movie reviews, they will be listed along with the regular posts. The films being reviewed will most probably not currently be in theaters but rather will hold an important part in movie history. So here goes...

# Hours awake - 1 1/2
# Cups coffee - 1/2
# Level of atmospheric pressure (imagined) - 1.4

The Butterfly Effect: Going into this film with the lowest possible expectations reminded me of the time I saw Waterworld (in theaters). The key to making a successful film is too keep everyone's expectations so low that the film couldn't possibly be seen as anything but a success. The only difficulty is getting people to go see a film that they think will suck. I'm still working on that one.

No explanation of the plot is necessary as I'm not sure there really is one...there may well be, I just don't think I could explain it within the allotted time and without the help of a longshoreman and an abacus. It follows Asston Kuuutcher and Amy Smart as they grow up and for some reason, Asston is able to return to moments in his past and fix problems with it. Unfortunately, like sleeping with Rose McGowan, he opens up a Pandora's box where each world is better and worse than the previous one. The film deals with interesting issues of which none are actually, you know, figured out. It feels like the filmmakers are holding up a shiny object to keep the audiences attention which works until we get blind-sided by a two-by-four every time Asston comes back onto the screen.

In the end, the film redeems itself by creating a world where (SPOLIER!!) Asston Kuuutcher does not exist.

For the above stated reason, the film ranks an F2*.


*Here to fore, movies will be ranked on the Fujitsu scale, the same used to rank tornados on the level of destruction they create.