Product Details

• Actors: Eric Lively, Erica Durance, Dustin Milligan, Gina Holden, David Lewis (IV)
• Directors: John R. Leonetti
• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: New Line Home Video
• DVD Release Date: October 10, 2006
• Run Time: 92 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000GYI3MM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #85,379 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Butterfly Effect 2" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

A man discovers he possesses the power to change the past - with dire consequences for the future. Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 12/09/2008 Starring: Eric Lively Erica Durance Run time: 92 minutes Rating: R

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars "whatever happened between us, just wipe it out of your head", October 12, 2007

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This review is from: The Butterfly Effect 2 (DVD)

I think that's the worst thing I've ever heard. Why would anyone say that. What human being would say that.

I liked part 1, so when I saw there was a sequel, even knowing it had a very low rating, I wanted to give it chance. I love time travel movies, so if this was ANYTHING like the first one, at a minimum I figured I would get a moderate amount of enjoyment out of it.

All I got was a moderate amount of homicidal thoughts after this. I can't believe that professionals can actually create something so bad. Put aside the bland acting and the boring writing for a second, and look at the way the script was structured. The movie was a little less than 90 minutes long, yet nothing even happens for the first 52 minutes, when the movie's more than half over. There was no development of story or characters whatsoever. A complete waste of 52 minutes of screen time.

Whoever wrote this did the equivalent of building a roller coaster that travels from one side of the park to the other without EVER GOING UP, and instead travels across in a completely straight line, and so as you exit off the coaster, you're wondering "wtf was that??" The writer of this story forgot to add the one key element that makes all stories work on some level: some conflict for a protagonist to overcome, obviously. Nothing resembling drama or suspense took place until either the 52 minute mark, or the 61 minute mark. It all depends on whether you would consider his confrontation with his friend in the garage at the 52 minute mark as something significant that builds the story and moves it forward. If not, then there's definitely NOTHING that happens until the 61 minute mark, which is when he realizes that he's no longer in a relationship with his girlfriend. Now that's actually pretty interesting. But why are we JUST NOW getting into the realm of "he has to fix this disastrous timeline he's now in, one without his girlfriend," with only less than a HALF HOUR of the movie left? What were we watching for the past hour? Everything that happened before was completely inconsequential, you might as well start watching this movie from the 52 or 61 minute mark, you won't miss a thing.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars terrible!!!!, July 16, 2007

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A. Mikolaj (Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Butterfly Effect 2 (DVD)

I actually thought the first one was ok. This one was just crap. Was it an after school movie?

Maybe rent it and waste your time but don't buy it unless it is for a relative who you don't like.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible boring stupid movie, May 9, 2007

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Tim Lieder "Founder of Dybbuk Press" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Butterfly Effect 2 (DVD)

Whereas the original Butterfly Effect is one of the most divisive movies in science fiction (a genre that's filled with divisive movies that are loved and hated), the most one can disagree with on this movie is how much we hate this thing. Do you hate it, or merely dislike it as a waste of time?

Of course, most straight-to-DVD movies are harmless fluff that are ok on their own standards, this one is bad even without the first movie. The characters are bland. The situation is inane. Nothing is ever explained. Our hero looks at a picture. Things get all wonky. Suddenly he's back in time. He changes something. The future is changed, but how much? And is it really for the better? How is this any different than the first movie? Well, the first movie at least took the time to give us the technobabble. Sure, the technobabble is usually vain but in this case, it's a little important. And the first movie raised the stakes by throwing in an "every jump could be his last" immediacy, the sequel decides to let the guy have a nosebleed without explanation.

Even more odious is the low stakes of the jumps. Sure, Erica Durance dies in the beginning so you can see why he jumps back. Only when he jumps back the second time, he is doing it to get that promotion in the badly managed company. That's it. Ashton Kutchner was losing limbs, turning his friends into serial killers, driving other friends to suicide and ending up in fraternities. This shmuck loses a bad job and then gets it back only to see that he's working too hard. Oh the humanity.

All in all a wretched movie by a screenwriter without imagination or humor. It contains none of the charm of the first movie and doesn't even try to have fun with the "go back in time and mess things up" concept. I would give it a second star for Erica Durance in trashy underwear, but it can't even begin to make up for the rest of the movie.