IC Movie Reviews - The Butterfly Effect

Hey IC here to post you some quality information, for absolutely no pay whatsoever. Today as I scrolled through Star Choice's movie channels, I stopped at IFC. Playing at the time was Scary Movie, but I saw that after that my favourite movie ever was playing, The Butterfly Effect.

Well then I guess I should start on the story then.  The story starts off with Evan, a young boy who lives with his mother, who from the look of her uniform is either a stripped or a waitress. Evan goes to elementary school with his mother where she finds a picture he drew of what he wants to be when he grows up, only for him to say he doesn't remember doing it. Not just that, but many, many other events in his life are blanked out from a condition his father had, hmm didn't know craziness was hereditary. As he continues in life he starts to remember the things he had blanked out, and ultimately alters the future and his own life.

Over the course of the movie, the things he blanked out become a little more understandable. At about mid-beggining he goes to his friend Kayleigh's house to meet her father, played by Eric Stoltz. Once they go in the basement to record a "movie", he blanks out everything unto the point where Mr. Miller tells Kayleigh and Evan to get naked. When he tries to remember he tells off the father, and in that alters the past so him and Kayleigh are dating at a college.

In the movie the role of Evan is played by Logan Lerman (Age 7), then John Patrick Amedori (Age 13), then finally Ashton Kutcher, and each actor pulls off their respective role perfectly. Logan Lerman pulls off a confused blanking child perfectly, as does John Patrick Amedori pull off a memory lost teenager amazingly. The other characters effected by Evan had to be drastically changed in how they look in order to match what he did, so I have to respect the hair, make-up, and costume designers.

This movie will always be my favourite because it's a smart person movie. A smart person movie is a movie that makes you reconsider the entire human condition, and a stupid person movie is for someone who turns off The Butterfly Effect, or Hancock and loads up Meet the Spartans. That's all I have to say, thank you for reading and I will be back to update the Xbox Live Update.