I was amazed (but not like the other mallrats)

Rating: Null/10 (23 July 2004)

Every once in a while a movie comes along that just takes you by surprise. Sometimes it's easy to walk into a movie and expect it to be awful. The new B-movie classic The Butterfly Effect (also the absolute Best Worst movie of the year!) breaks the barrier of being awful and just shoots you off into another dimension of absolute disbelief. If I ever see Ashton Kutcher attempt "dark drama" again, I hope he grows out another beard. He was one of the executive producers of this phenomenon which could have been titled The Chaos Theory For Dummies, it almost feels like your forced to watch a physics project presented by a fraternity after a weekend of beer chugs and bong hits. There comes a point where many questions are raised. Why are Kutcher, Amy Smart, and Ethan Suplee being forced to act all dramatic? Is there a Wheel of Fortune in Hollywood? Is that why Eric Stoltz is stuck here playing the lamest pedophile stereotype put on film? You can play a drinking game tallying up the ridiculous asides in this movie, but you could kill yourself after the first hour. Have the filmmakers seen Donnie Darko? Bedazzled? Quantum Leap? That Simpsons Halloween episode where Homer travels back in time with a toaster? Maybe this is one big Hollywood joke. Now THAT would make this the most clever movie of our time!