Butter

Butter might have been a dark comedy; here, the humor is twisted but the world is bright as can be. Conservatives and liberals alike take a licking, and yet the art of butter carving emerges unscathed.

There's something about this film's churn of goo and grit that lingers ambivalently, difficult to digest.

Well acted and sporadically amusing - especially when Olivia Wilde's profanity-spewing stripper is around - Butter alternates between looking down its nose at Midwestern passions and cooing over smugly liberal values.

Garner hasn't come across as amusing as she is here in quite some time. Despite many funny bits, Butter also, at times, seems to excoriate the blinkered Midwesterners in the flyover states.

It's been a long time since a movie wasted this much talent.

Self-righteous and smug in its use of heartland stereotypes, the movie backfires by assuming that its intended liberal audience is just as intolerant and condescending as the conservative opposition insists it is.

Butter essentially eats its own premise, then proceeds to bludgeon us with unfunny, unoriginal political satire.

Butter is a surprisingly good film, all things considered! The writing is fantastic, the performances from the cast are great, and the odd subject matter helps with the charm and the black comedy. The ending is baffling to say the least, but it is memorable.

What starts as a mildly assuming farce, devolves into a pedestrian trudge to the long awaited finish line. The bar for comedy is often set awfully low. In the case of this film, they barely cleared the bar.

Pretty bad indie rip-off. There could have been a cool movie underneath all that saturated fat of one-dimensional characters, poor writing, and fake ass quirkiness. The film tried way too hard to be meaningful and eccentric and it missed on both marks. The well-acted silent suffering of Ty Burrell was the only redeeming quality in this over-churned slop.

One of the many amazing things about movies is that it can take you from a rainy, no beach, Columbus holiday to a butter sculpture contest at the Iowa State Fair. tA wife, Laura Pickler (Jennifer Garner), of the ma, Bob Pickler (Ty Burrell), who won it for 15 years in a row and has been sort of pushed not to enter this year, finds herself in a

3 Main points: 1. Truly great performance by the lead little girl, 2. Boring, and 3. condescending tone. The first 2 are self explanatory; the girl was great and there were about two laughs throughout the entire movie. That leaves the condescending tone with which this movie (Script & Director) decided to belittle everyone but the girl. The whole point of the movie (b/c movies have points) is to show how backwards, simple, and corrupt the "fly-over" states are; and their simpleness is amusing. If that premise is funny to you, then you probably still won't laugh but at least you won't feel insulted. Discovering this movie in 2017 was a trip. It's a confirmation that Hollywood was pulling these "smug-liberal-lefty" shenanigans in 2012; and released days before the 2012 elections mind you. I wonder how many people saw this movie, felt insulted (alongside everything else on TV & movies), and then exploded in 2016 giving us this clown of a president. A clown but a well deserved slap in the face. Toodles.