Reviewed by Geno McGahee
I’m not a fan of Ashton Kutcher. He’s not a great actor by any stretch of the imagination, but the plot of THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT was enough to draw me in. I like movies about time travel and about what a little change can do to the future, and this is what this movie is all about.
Evan (Kutcher) is involved in a death as a small child, placing a firework in a mailbox with his buddies that led to end for a baby. That event sent each of those involved in different directions, some very tragic.
Kayleigh (Amy Smart) was one of those friends and so was her brother, Tommy (William Lee Scott) and fat friend Lenny (Elden Henson). Out of the foursome, Tommy took the biggest downward spiral, not helped by the pedophile father that he and sister Kayleigh had to deal with.
Time goes on, and Evan is in college with his fat friend Thumper (Ethan Suplee), but he is haunted by his childhood and elects to read his old journals, which gives him a chance to make things right. He changes some things in the past and wakes up next to Amy Smart. I have begun reading my old journals, but thus far, I have not gotten the same results. What’s your secret Ashton?
Unfortunately, when you change one thing, you open up a whole can of worms and other things change. Thumper hates him now, he’s now together with Amy Smart, but her brother Tommy wants to kill him and when he tries to, Evan turns the table and now ends up in prison! This is where he offers to suck dick to get in with the white supremacists, and they take him up on it. He was about to get punk’d, but then he turned the tables and stabbed them in the crotch and went back in time to avoid the whole “dick sucking” thing.
This movie has a lot of twists and turns and is really interesting from start to finish. Kutcher’s acting is funny at times, especially when he is adjusting to the new time and he makes funny faces like he’s getting a blow job from a white supremacist or something, but I can overlook that and highly recommend this movie. I really enjoyed it.
Scared Stiff Rating: 7.5/10. No BJ for you Nazi!
