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The Butterfly Effect (2004)

Ok I went into this iwth pretty low expectations. It just seemed like a bad film right up front, but I needed something to watchin on a recent plane flight - and this was available.

This movie is a cross between Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Ground Hog Day, Bedazzled, and somehing M. Night Shyamalan would come up with.

The movie took forver to get going. All along they way you were faced with characters that were evil and disgusting - and no sign of Kelso anywhere.

The setup part of the film (the beginging) was so strange that I was actually sucked into the movie. I wanted to see why they had the character have such a horrible life. I will admit I was actually interested in seeing how they tied in all the horrible things that happen.

Kelso shows up about 45 minutes into the movie. He ends up being very scruffy - and rankly not all that funny. This is where the film starts to go down hill.

You see Kelso has special powers that allow him to go back in time. The rest of the film is spent exploring these powers and their effect on his life.

Bottom Line: If you want your time travel/alt history spoon fed to you by Kelso - have at it - but I think they 2 hours would be better spent watching Bill and Ted’s and spending the extra half hour napping.