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the Editor should go back in time...
After seeing the first Butterfly Effect, my expectations were high for this sequel. The first was intelligent, tight, engagingly paced and leaves you stunned and pensive.
This sequel might be worth a 4-star rating if there had been no first movie.
What kept this one from being a really good movie were several things:
1- character development was thin;
2- we don't care about the other people in our star's life, before they die (the first time);
3- too many scenes were drawn out unnecessarily to show us that our star was bummed out;
4- our main guy makes a big deal about his soon-to-be killed girlfriend putting her seatbelt on ... but a mack truck broadsides her side of the car. ... um ... I don't think the seatbelt would have saved her;
5- the "update" to being currently PC, is seen by a male-on-male scene. it was easy to see coming, and just as contrived;
6- the ending is disturbing not due to gore, but due to the message that suicide will work out best for those you love.
And pardon me, but did they TRY to make Eric Lively look like Tom Brady? It took me a while to figure out who I felt like I was looking at throughout the film. Hey, no touchdown on this weak sequel.
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Filmed in 20 days
Can you tell????!!!
I absolutely adored the original Butterfly Effect. It was unique, there is virtually no other film like it other there. And it did alright actually. Enough to warrant releasing a director's cut, which took the original story to a whole different dimension.
Butterfly Effect 2 was cheap, and the story does sound quite interesting, but also at the same time, rather than going back in time through his diaries, the new guy goes back in time through photos. Not a direct copy of the original, unlike what some sequels do.
Yes, there was really no need for a sequel. And when the main star doesn't return for the sequel, you know it's basically going to crash and die before it even hits the cinema. (Keanu not returning for Speed 2 etc.) It does have an interesting storyline, but it does tend to fall flat on its face in some scenes. Eric Lively and Erica Durance make a good looking couple, and for the guys, she strips down to not very much, but they just don't have the chemistry or the charisma that Ashton Kutcher & Amy Smart had in the original. Plus, I ended up with the feeling I couldn't really care about the characters, whereas I was nearly crying at original.
It's worthwhile getting cheap, if you like watching silly movies, and it's only 88 minutes long - it's over before you know it. But don't expect an Oscar winning movie.
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terrible!!!!
I actually thought the first one was ok. This one was just crap. Was it an after school movie?
Maybe rent it and waste your time but don't buy it unless it is for a relative who you don't like.
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A Sequel
My Opinion: The Butterfly Effect 2 wasn't all that bad i thought it was pretty good. It's not better than the fisrt but given only 20 days to make the film i thought they did an excellent job.
About The Movie: The Butterfly Effect 2 is about this young man who lost his two best friends and girlfriend in a car accedint and a year later begin in the hospital he finds out that he can go back in time in his head and tries to fix the trgedy that happened 1 year ago. in process of doing this he just make things worse not better no matter what he dose he ends up losing his love and best friend.
If you liked this movie then check out, The Butterfly Effect
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Terrible boring stupid movie
Whereas the original Butterfly Effect is one of the most divisive movies in science fiction (a genre that's filled with divisive movies that are loved and hated), the most one can disagree with on this movie is how much we hate this thing. Do you hate it, or merely dislike it as a waste of time?
Of course, most straight-to-DVD movies are harmless fluff that are ok on their own standards, this one is bad even without the first movie. The characters are bland. The situation is inane. Nothing is ever explained. Our hero looks at a picture. Things get all wonky. Suddenly he's back in time. He changes something. The future is changed, but how much? And is it really for the better? How is this any different than the first movie? Well, the first movie at least took the time to give us the technobabble. Sure, the technobabble is usually vain but in this case, it's a little important. And the first movie raised the stakes by throwing in an "every jump could be his last" immediacy, the sequel decides to let the guy have a nosebleed without explanation.
Even more odious is the low stakes of the jumps. Sure, Erica Durance dies in the beginning so you can see why he jumps back. Only when he jumps back the second time, he is doing it to get that promotion in the badly managed company. That's it. Ashton Kutchner was losing limbs, turning his friends into serial killers, driving other friends to suicide and ending up in fraternities. This shmuck loses a bad job and then gets it back only to see that he's working too hard. Oh the humanity.
All in all a wretched movie by a screenwriter without imagination or humor. It contains none of the charm of the first movie and doesn't even try to have fun with the "go back in time and mess things up" concept. I would give it a second star for Erica Durance in trashy underwear, but it can't even begin to make up for the rest of the movie.
