Butterfly Effect 2, The

• USA • 2006 • 92m •

• Directed by: John R. Leonetti. • Starring: Eric Lively, Erica Durance, Dustin Milligan, Gina Holden, David Lewis, Andrew Airlie, Chris Gauthier, Susan Hogan, JR Bourne, Lindsay Maxwell, Zoran Vukelic, Jerry Wasserman, John Mann. • Music by: Mike Suby.

Nick Larson and his best friends Trevor Eastman and Amanda are celebrating the twentieth-fourth birthday of his girlfriend Julie Miller in a beautiful lake on a Sunday morning. Nick is expecting to be promoted in the company where he works, and Julie is planning to move to his place instead of going to New York for her Master degree. However, Nick is called by his colleague Dave Bristol, who is disputing the promotion with Nick, for a meeting with a client. While on the road, Nick has an accident and Julie and his friends die. One year later, Nick finds that he can travel in time and tries to fix the past, with tragic consequences for the future.

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It's as if the people who made this movie didn't even watch the first one; it's simply baffling. In this movie, the guy goes back in time a couple times to fix his job and status with his girlfriend. It's pretty bland stuff. Who cares about his job or his girlfriend and why is some guy who signed a contract and made an investment in their company trying to beat up or even kill people to get his whopping 250K back when they can simply go to court and expose him? There are amazing lapses in logic here as well as a totally overlooked aspect of the original film that just makes this a pile of garbage: when the guy goes back in time in this one, and starts over at a new point in his life, he seems to have no idea what happened or got him there. In the original, the lead would have memories of both time-lines. In this one, for some reason, the guy doesn't and has to find out stuff as he goes along, it's quite annoying and pointless.

The characters in this film are all clichéd, one-dimensional cardboard cut-outs who you just don't care about and I admit I started fast forwarding through parts because it was so amazingly boring I just couldn't take it. I love a good time-travel story and this wasn't one of them.

In this one the time travel aspect is really almost an afterthought. Here you have a great premise, in my opinion the original was one of the best time travel ideas ever done, and it's completely wasted on a pile of garbage script. Just wasted. A true disappointment and a good example of why to avoid straight-to-DVD sequels.

Review by F_Jenkins from the Internet Movie Database.

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