Hopefully it too will get lost in time...

Rating: 6/10 (23 January 2004)

SOME SPOILERS
Movie critics out there will think The Butterfly Effect is a cleverly written and thought provoking film that needs to be watched over and over again to develop it's true meaning.
Simply Put: Those people are as moronic as this movie.
The Butterfly Effect is just another poorly directed and even worse written film to try and shock its audience with kiddy porn, senseless murder and fiery animal abuse.
But, despite all the bad points of this movie, credit has to be given to the casting directors for finding not one, but two young teenage actors that have that same dumbfounded expression to play younger versions of Ashton Kutcher.

Kutcher and his swarm of mini-hims play a brilliant young psychology student, who as a young boy was haunted by series of blackouts. So, as a boy he kept a series of journals, documenting the times he could remember in hopes to jog his memories back.
All ready, the idea of Kutcher as a brilliant young psychology student makes this movie completely unbelievable.
What the journals do instead, years later, is take him back in time to the moment of his blackout and let him try to change the events that transpired. This leads to a series of `what-if's' as he tries repeatedly to save his childhood sweetheart, played by a series of young actresses and Amy Smart, from disastrous consequences, each worse and brought upon by his meddling.

What starts off as interesting quickly turns into laughable, due completely to the poorly written script which has that feeling it was penned by a failing philosophy student who has taken a first year screenwriting class one too many times.