User Reviews

Many people thought the original film was brilliant, myself included. It did well at the box-office. Why, oh why did the studio decide to throw its IP straight down the drain? The franchise is the life-blood of Hollywood. The wilful trashing of a franchise is the worst possible sin.

Anyway, this new movie is a nightmare. A hack writer and a hack director simply attempt to remake the first movie, without a clue as to what made the movie tick in the first place.

So, in BE2, a young dude will do anything for the love of his girl. And has the power to change his own history, suffering the usual "monkey's paw" curse. We even have a copy of the undesired male-male sex scene.

The young dude even has the same concerned Mom, and the same 'troubled' Dad as in the first one.

Where the plot deviates, it does so by stripping out 90% of the original film's intricate plotting, leaving us with a crudely constructed parody.

BE2 adds NOTHING to the mythology, and is devoid of any good action sequences. Even as straight-to-DVD, it stinks. Please, if you like the original, forget this trash. If you need another dose of the story, watch the original with the alternate ending.

To the producers, let me say "why?". A decent script, a hungry young director, and a budget little different from this film would have given you 50 million dollars plus at the US box-office alone. Do you really have so much money that you are happy to throw it down the drain like this. It is a pity that YOUR investors were not as ruthless as the ones portrayed in your film. This might have given you the incentive to put some effort into your job.

First of all, there are some minor spoilers on my comments which aren't THAT specific, if you've seen the first movie you might want to read them anyway because I'm not revealing information that you don't already know. But if you don't want to read ANY spoilers at all you were warned.

Why, why, why!!!??? Why do people still make this horrible movies. I loved the first one, and I had little expectations for this one, I thought "OK, surprise me", but at the end of the movie I realized I lost around 90 or 100 minutes of my life (a blackout here would have been great for me)

The movie:

1) Forget the concept of blackouts, there are no blackouts here, the main character simply concentrates in a picture, everything shakes around him (a dumb visual effect) and he just travels in time. That's it. Voila!

2) The story is very poor, confusing and extremely boring.

3) The characters are not even interesting.

4) Acting: Well, let's give them some credit, they did what they could...

5) The love history: A very common one. Does not add anything to the movie, it's not even romantic (like in the original where he always tries to save her)

6) Whoever wrote the story does not seem to have seen "the butterfly effect". Instead, looks like he read a review of the movie and wrote the script based on that.

Finally, spite of my comments and the rest of the comments you might still want to watch the movie. I mean, it's the sequel of "the butterfly effect", right? you might think "well, it can't be that bad!" But believe me, if you liked the first one, you'll hate this one. Tnx for reading :-)

Funny how movie prices have gone down. I recently bought the DVD for $5 which has both movies on a single disk, 'Effect' and 'Effect 2'. I had seen the first one but not the second. The only similarity is the ability of the protagonist to reverse time and 'correct' an unfavorable issue, which then causes a number of different outcomes, and some of them not very desirable at all.

I recently have become a fan of Erica Durance in her role as Lois Lane in the 'Smallville' TV series. This movie, 'Effect 2', was my first chance to see her in a different role, and she is good.

Eric Lively is Nick Larson and his 24-year-old girlfriend is Erica Durance as Julie Miller. Nick and Julie are in love but things happen to threaten all that. Nick by accident, while looking at a photo, finds out he can reverse time and change things.

Not a great movie, but a nice story which can have some lessons for the discerning viewer. Also fairly entertaining. Better than its IMDb rating would indicate.

SPOILERS FOLLOW: Nick, Julie, and friends are having a nice weekend at a mountain lake when Nick gets a call that he has to go back to the office. Relucantly he goes, but on the way through the mountains, with a front wheel blowout, they wreck with a large truck, Julie dies. It is about a year later when Nick manages to turn back time, to right before they left the lake that day. This time, knowing about the truck, he manages to avoid it and Julie lives. But back at work other things arise, Nick does something to get himself a promotion that had gone to someone else, but this created other problems. Nick became a different person, he had apparently rejected Julie. In the very last time he goes back in time to the lake he tells Julie to go to NY to pursue her art, she tells him she is pregnant. Distraught Julie gets in the car, Nick follows her, manages to save her, but he went off the cliff in the second car and dies. He sacrificed himself for her, in a 'Casablanca' moment. The movie ends with Julie in her NY apartment with her young son.

I have mixed feelings about the original Butterfly Effect. I thought it was well acted and interesting but didn't care for some of the subject matter with the child abuse, animal cruelty, etc.

This movie is nothing more than a no budget remake of the original that has the product values of a made for SCI-FI channel movie. The story was not interesting and it added nothing new to the genre.

The movie is nothing more than an attempt to make a few quick bucks by using the name of the the original movie.

I have seen comments that it is hard to follow which I disagree with completely. I found it easy to follow but incredibly boring. It simply follows the path of a guy who can look at pictures and change the past. Each time he changes the past, it turns out be worse than it was before. That is the whole movie.

If you like the genre, I recommend renting Donnie Darko or watching the original Buttetfly Effect. Their is no point paying 4 bucks to rent this garbage.

So I go to blockbuster and they're having a sale buy 2 get 2 free, I couldn't find many good movies so I ended up getting The Butterfly Effect 2 as one of my free ones. The first one was amazing I thought, this one can't be too bad... Oh boy was I wrong.

The movie follows a new character who seems in no way connected to Evan Treborn, (which isn't a bad thing I guess) In the movie He and his girlfriend and 2 other friends were in a car accident and of course one year later he tries to go back and change everything and screws it up. The movie was very badly written, there were many inconsistencies though out the movie such as the mentioning of a car accident when in that reality there wasn't one. This movie was not even worth picking up for free.

QUOTE IMDb: The entire film was shot in 20 days.

Let me tell you. it shows. IF they wanted to make a good sequel they should have actually made a prequel detailing Evan's Father's Experiences with the Butterfly Effect. Now that would have been great.

To sum things up: Even if you can get a hold of the movie for free, don't.

1/10

I came to this movie since I simply loved the first one, however after seeing these comments I was expecting the worse. I have to say I got more than I've expected.

The movie comprises Eric Lively(Nick) as it's main character; a sales agent for a new startup. He is accompanied with the lovely Erica Durance(Julie) who is a photography artist wishing to create her own gallery some day. Nick reaches certain turning points in his life and exploits a certain schizophrenia disease he suffers from to create different realities.

The filmography and acting is decent as well as a rather good storyline. I must warn you however that it is acutely similar to the first. The ideas and concepts are identical. The storyline has several differences including the ending but overall there will be many parts which will almost duplicate with the first.

Ultimately, if you haven't seen "The Butterfly Effect" I strongly recommend you see this sequel, since it is merely a different version of the first. If you have seen it you probably won't enjoy it as much but it will pass a few hours by pleasantly.

** 6/10