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Original title: Butterfly Effect, The Directed by
Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber Written by
J. Mackye Gruber, Eric Bress Cast
Ashton Kutcher, Melora Walters, Amy Smart, Elden Henson, William Lee Scott [more]
Release Date
• USA: Jan 23, 2004
• UK: 16 Apr 2004
DVD Release Date
• R1: Jul 6, 2004
• R2: 13 Sep 2004
Budget $13,000,000
BoxOffice: $57.7M
Official Website:
The Butterfly Effect Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for violence, sexual content, language and brief drug use. (also director's cut)
Running Time
1 hour, 53 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Bender-Spink Inc., FilmEngine, Katalyst Films
Studio New Line Cinema
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Other Titles
• The Butterfly Effect (2004)
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The Butterfly Effect Reviews |
But if the storytelling induces brain cramp, the imagery brings on a bad case of acid indigestion. The filmmakers return again and again to their movie's most repulsive visuals... ''The Butterfly Effect,'' is inhabited by a genuine spirit of cruelty, both toward its characters and its audience. [read review]
--DAVE KEHR (The New York Times)
It is likely that a number of reviews are going to describe The Butterfly Effect as a "science fiction" movie. Nothing could be further from the truth - little that occurs during the course of this film relates to science or technology, and to force The Butterfly Effect into the genre is a lazy and unwarranted approach. [read review] 
--James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
Upon contemplation, it's clear that writing-directing team Eric Bress and J. Mackey Gruber, who wrote the also entertaining yet slightly flawed "Final Destination 2," have crafted a carefully constructed script and in the end answer most of a viewer's questions, except for that disturbing drawing of a massacre that he makes as a child. [read review] 
--Annlee Ellingson (Boxoffice Magazine)
"The Butterfly Effect" is a pretty hard motion picture to swallow. The experience is not helped by the filmmakers, who have little interest in developing characters or narrative coherence, and have been forced to give Ashton Kutcher his first big dramatic role - which he bungles without much effort. [read review] D-
--Brian Orndorf (FilmJerk.com)
I enjoyed "The Butterfly Effect," up to a point. That point was reached too long before the end of the movie. There's so much flashing forward and backward, so many spins of fate, so many chapters in the journals, that after awhile I felt that I, as wellas time, was being jerked around. [read review] 
--ROGER EBERT (Chicago Sun-Times)
ASHTON Kutcher tries hard to play it straight, but he and his fans get punk'd in "The Butterfly Effect," an over-the-top supernatural thriller so ridiculous it's unintentionally funnier than some of his recent comedies like "My Boss's Daughter." [read review] 
--Lou Lumenick (New York Post)
The whole movie, I just kept waiting for Kutcher to look at the camera and say, "You've just been Punk'd," and in a way, he did punk us. Even though it's not that bad, he punk'd us into thinking it's a lot better than it really is. [read review]
--Brian Gallagher (MovieWeb)
While The Butterfly Effect isn't profoundly philosophical stuff, it is an intriguing look at how the past shapes the future, and in the leading role, Ashton Kutcher makes a successful crossover from comedy to drama. [read review]
--Guylaine Cadorette (Hollywood.com)
Kutcher's noogie-giving persona does exude a confident charm, however, and that charm goes a long way in The Butterfly Effect, the heartthrob's first dramatic lead since he hit the cover of Tiger Beat. [read review]
--Norm Schrager (FilmCritic.com)
An applause-worthy, wildly ambitious mind-bender that is not only one of the more original motion pictures to be released in recent months, but also one of its most emotionally unshakable. [read review] 
--Dustin Putman (The Movie Insider)
An original movie that fools around with the concepts of time, memory, fate and consequences in ways that make them entertaining, thoughtful, sad and loving, all at the same time. [read review] 8/10
--'JoBlo' (JoBlo.com)
So he returns to the past, and back to the future, and etc. etc. until, if anyone in the audience can't predict the ending, they should have their voting rights revoked. [read review] 
--Lyle Henretty (Bloody-Disgusting.com)
In its own ridiculous way, "The Butterfly Effect" is an entertaining movie, despite mediocre acting, lackluster direction and a story that's sometimes frustrating. [read review]
--Mick LaSalle (San Francisco Chronicle)
Deserves credit on the idea alone, but you always get the feeling that it could have worked so much better had it been in more experienced hands. [read review] C
--Craig Younkin (Lee's Movie Info)
Children and small animals are mercilessly tortured -- and so is the audience -- in this thoroughly repulsive Ashton Kutcher time-travel flick. [read review]
--Charles Taylor (Salon)
It's a shame because the first half is truly enjoyable, full of suspense with a creepy atmosphere, but it can't maintain that level. [read review] 6/10
--Scott Spicciati (Movie-Vault.com)
One of the movie's most dramatic moments can, with the wrong audience, easily produce titters instead of the desired shivers. [read review]
--Ron Weiskind (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Trashy, enjoyably stupid time-travel thriller featuring an amusingly bad performance by Ashton Dude, Where’s My Car? Kutcher. [read review]
--Matthew Turner (ViewLondon)
A ludicrous supernatural thriller, packed with clichés, heavy-handed symbolism, stupid dialogue and over-acting. [read review] 52/100
--Brian Webster (Apollo Guide)
This ingenious fable of time-travel, chaos theory and self-sacrifice is this year's Donnie Darko. [read review] 8/10
--Anton Bitel (Movie Gazette)
I’d call this a darker Back to the Future, but that sounds more like the ‘80s-set “Donnie Darko”. [read review]
--Kevin N. Laforest (Montreal Film Journal)
It's refreshing to see something so sharp, so bright, from somewhere so unlikely. [read review]
--Edith Alderette (San Francisco Examiner)
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