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- 2012
- R
- The Weinstein Company
- 1 h 31 m
- 2012
- R
- The Weinstein Company
- 1 h 31 m
Summary A tale of competition at its most cut-throat, "Butter" surveys the raw ambition of Laura Pickler, the wife of Bob Pickler, Iowa's long-reigning champion butter carver. For 15 years, Laura has relished her high-profile role as the beautiful, loyal helpmate to her affable, artistically gifted husband. But when Bob is pressured to retire an...
Directed By: Jim Field Smith
Written By: Jason Micallef
- 2012
- R
- The Weinstein Company
- 1 h 31 m
- 2012
- R
- The Weinstein Company
- 1 h 31 m
Butter
40
6.3
Where to Watch
Summary A tale of competition at its most cut-throat, "Butter" surveys the raw ambition of Laura Pickler, the wife of Bob Pickler, Iowa's long-reigning champion butter carver. For 15 years, Laura has relished her high-profile role as the beautiful, loyal helpmate to her affable, artistically gifted husband. But when Bob is pressured to retire an...
Directed By: Jim Field Smith
Written By: Jason Micallef
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
40
17% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
48% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
35% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
40
17% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
48% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
35% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
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.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 User Ratings
6.3
50% Positive
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
31% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
19% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 User Ratings
6.3
50% Positive
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
31% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
19% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
This movie is simply hilarious. From the reviews I have read, people took it far too seriously. A movie about Ty Burrell as a master butter art sculptor is in no way meant to be taken seriously. This film pokes into the satirical style a few times, but overall stays as one of those over-the-top, ridiculous-yet-hilarious-characters type of films. It is hilarious and is really a movie that uses a silly plot to provide a setting for great comedy--in a good way. This movie is filled with jokes, and the plot is insignificant. If you came into this expecting to care about a butter sculpting competition, then I am not sure what movie is for you. Watch this movie expecting a lot of great scenes that could stand alone in any movie as comedy gold.
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An underrated indie film for sure. Really enjoyed the black comedy and the strong cast!
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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.
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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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