Caeli MacAulay, Dustin Milligan, Eric Lively

Nick Larson and his best friends Trevor Eastman and Amanda are celebrating the twentieth-fourth anniversary of his girlfriend Julie Miller in a beautiful lake on a Sunday morning. Nick is expecting to...( read more  read more... ) 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 in 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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R, 92 min.

Directed by: John R. Leonetti

Release Date: October 10, 2006

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  • June 2, 2009
    Not even close to as good as the first one. This one was pretty boring in comparison. I think the only good thing was that the lead character was hotter.
  • February 4, 2009
    Same format as the first (as expected) with a different set of circumstances, which could have developed into a fairly good story, instead it turned in to quite a pointless sequel.
  • July 22, 2008
    Not as good as the first one, I guess that's why it came out directly to DVD. I think it lacks of suspense and mystery and the plot wasn't fully developed. The cast is decent and with convincing performances from part of them like Erica Durance. My conclusion is that if you don't...( read more) have something better to do, you can watch this movie.
  • November 30, 2007
    can't help but wonder how much better the original would have been if Livey had been cast instead of Kutcher
  • October 23, 2007
    Boy, they just don't make um like they used to.
  • October 31, 2009
    Yeah, kind of boring :l
    But i love the soundtracks lol
    Sad, mad, brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
    This film is just wrong.
  • October 25, 2009
    So after watching the brilliant movie known as 'The Butterfly effect' so that I could review it hear on Flixster, I made the mistake of watching 'The Butterfly Effect 2'.

    Believe it or not, there is a lot to say about this movie, however, it is not all good.
    In a cheap...( read more) attempt to make a sequel to a movie that didn't need one, 'The Butterfly Effect 2' attempts to tell the story of Nick, who after a being involved in a car accident that kills his long term girlfriend, and two of his closest friends, discovers that he can go back in time by vacantly staring at photographs of past events.

    Before I watched this movie, I already knew that I shouldn't have high expectations. And I was right.
    The opening scene of the movie introduces us to the main characters, who as well as being under developed, and stereotypical, are also unbelievable, but I think that is due to the acting.
    Our main character, Nick, who is played by Eric Lively, just feels so empty as a charcater. At the beginning of the movie, after his character discovers that he is the only survivor of the car crash, puts on a good performance as the depressed boyfriend who would do anything to have her back. However, as the movie progresses, His character just becomes contradicting.
    Don't get me wrong, there are some nice touches in this movie, but those little things do not make up for the fact that a lot of events in the movie are unexplained. For example, in the first movie it was explained to us very simply that Evan could travel back in time to points where he had memory blackouts. It was explained, and in a fictional world, in makes sense. But in this movie, Nick doesn't suffer from memory blackouts at a young age. In fact, he doesn't really suffer from anything more than the occasional migraine after the accident, and just before he travels back in time.

    To be fair, this movie is a very poor effort of imitating the first movie. Unfortunately, it was money that drove the progression of this movie, and not creative passion.
    The movie isn't bad enough to forever taint the first movie, even though Evans father, Jason Treborne, is mentioned briefly. In fact, it doesn't even do enough to justify it sharing the same name, or even being part of the franchise. Even though the story is not anywhere similar to the 'Final Destination' series, I felt that it had the same vibe and would fit in there a little better.

    To be honest, I'm trying to find appealing things about this movie, but that is not as easy to do as you may think. Personally, Only watch it if you have an hour and a half of your life that you don't want back.
  • October 23, 2009
    Not so bad, but the first film was better. Pretty much same thing slightly different.
  • October 14, 2009
    watched the first one, so no, thanks
  • September 28, 2009
    A predictable but good sequel.

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  • estefiop
    March 2, 2008
    So, so but so crapy, it's the worst movie ever, the first one was so good and this one fisrt of all no Ahton Kutche(what is that?!?!?!) and second it only has sex, horrible action scenes the screenplay sucks, it is just very bad.
  • herecomesthemoney69
    June 21, 2007
    Hated the 1st one wasnt planning on seeing this one but i heard lois lane from smallville is in it so i might check it out now.
  • jellyrose
    October 27, 2006
    want to wacth it from view of the picture i think it will be intrestin
  • Realman208
    October 25, 2006
    How dare they name this movie after the first one, they are completely different, and if u didn't watch the first one, then this one is sucks
  • luiscarlosch
    October 23, 2006
    This movie is really bad, ilogical and terrible.
  • dogboy1
    October 18, 2006
    I get this odd feeling that this won't be any good, kinda like SAW 2 wasn't as good as SAW. But I did love THE BUTTERFYL EFFECT so i'll give this one a shot
  • ditzieblonde69
    October 17, 2006
    Seeing that this movie came straight out on DVD, showed me it obviously wasn't good enough to make it into theatures (sp?) or did it? Well anywho I have never seen advertisements for it to be shown in the theatures. Anywho I still would like to see it, because the Butterfly Effect was one of my ALL time favorite movies, but I am pretty sure the second one will not be anywhere near as good as the first one. It is just common sense. Can't wait to see it though.
  • oeun2
    October 3, 2006
    i hope that this one wont be entirely the same as the first one... hope not... its great to see erica durance in a movie!!~ good for her..
  • sin026
    October 3, 2006
    I luv the first one , but this one is great too (u know .. second one alwayz disappoint ppl but this one didnt).. but the end was a bit .. i dunno , the accident looks a bit stupid coz i cant see the point why Nick must stop Julie coz the lorry is running on the same direction this time ... anyway , it's worth watching
  • LiLrah
    September 26, 2006
    i cant wait to see the movie as i loved the first one and i knew that there would finally be a sequal, if anyone else has actually watched the first one, they would know this too. i just hope it wont be a disappointment

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The Butterfly Effect 2 Trivia


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