- Studio: Weinstein Company, The
- Release Date: Oct 5, 2012
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6.7
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 12 Ratings
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Positive: 8 out of 12
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Mixed: 1 out of 12
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Negative: 3 out of 12
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Oct 8, 20123One 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
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Dec 14, 20125What 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.
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Jan 26, 20131Just another excuse for Hollywood to mock middle class white people in flyover country. The only wise and profound person was an 11-year-old token black child. They even managed to rope in Hugh Jackman to mock God and praying.
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38It's been a long time since a movie wasted this much talent.
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30Plays like one long, slow descent into cloying moralizing and uplift that's well past its expiration date.
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50With both Garner and Shahedi providing voice-over, the small-town stakes and the big thematic ideas, Butter feels like someone trying to create the lemonade tang and quenching zest of, say, Alexander Payne's "Election."