CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Brainsbell The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

xhidden99 You will love this heavy handed off the shelf PSA for the standard suite of things that rich white Hollywood liberals. It's the kind of movie that TV shows pretend to put on inside an episode. If the fake writers on 30 Rock were fake making a movie about how much they hate everyone who's not a bicoastal rich liberal progressive, this would be it. It's the liberals 'Birth of the Nation'. Because remember, it's only satire if YOU know it's satire. If you don't then you're just being David Letterman.

Uriah43 This movie essentially begins with a man named "Bob Pickler" (Ty Burrell) living in the state of Iowa and being the champion 15 years in a row for his butter sculptures at the annual state fair. His wife, "Laura Pickler" (Jennifer Garner) is extremely proud of this accomplishment and plans to use it to further advance her fortunes by having Bob run for political office. But that all changes one day when the organizers of the butter carving event ask Bob not to compete this year so that others can have a chance. Naturally, being the understanding type of person he is Bob reluctantly agrees. His wife, on the other hand, is incensed and sees this as an attempt to thwart her ambitions. To that effect, she announces that she will compete in his place instead. That being said, although Laura has some artistic talent she soon becomes distressed to learn that a young black orphan by the name of "Destiny" (Yara Shahidi) has also chosen to compete--and Destiny happens to have a natural artistic ability that is quite extraordinary. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that what made this film so entertaining was the way it tended to highlight some of the attitudes of certain people living in the "Bible Belt" of America. While they may profess to being Christian their actions clearly say otherwise. Yet--even though many of these scenes were quite funny in their own right—I must admit that there were a couple of scenes that were just plain vulgar and they detracted from what could have been a truly outstanding piece of comedy and satire. Even so, I enjoyed this movie for the most part and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly above average.

SnoopyStyle After 15 years on top, Bob Pickler (Ty Burrell) is being pushed out of butter sculpting and he's fine with it. On the other hand, his ambitious wife Laura (Jennifer Garner) is not fine with it at all. While Bob seeks comfort from stripper Brooke/Tokyo Rose (Olivia Wilde) in his car, Laura crashes into them. Brooke still wants her $600 that she works so hard squeezing out of Bob. Laura enters the butter contest to continue the family winning streak. Brooke enters the contest to spite Laura. Meanwhile foster kid Destiny (Yara Shahidi) has another new family in Jill (Alicia Silverstone) and Ethan (Rob Corddry). She just wants to sculpt butter.It's more quirky than funny. Even though it takes a lot of jabs at middle America, it's not anything terribly mean-spirited. For a dark comedy, it has very light tone. Other than Laura, everybody else is quite nice. In fact, it also takes jabs at the soy eating Jill. If there is any problematic stereotype, it's yet another wise old soul in a little black girl. They're better off to add a sharper edge to her character. There is a low simmering charm about this movie that grows over time. The funniest characters are the two edgier characters Laura and Brooke. They deliver a couple of funny moments.

stephenmetal777 Butter is a moderately enjoyable movie that suffers from one major problem. It doesn't know what type of movie it is, or what type of audience its trying to appeal to. The movie feels torn between being a dark comedy and a heart-warming family movie.When Butter focuses on being a feel good movie, it pulls it off relatively well. The little girl (Yara Shahidi) and her foster parents (Corddry and Silverstone) all put in enjoyable performances, and there's a cute little message about loving and caring for others.Where I feel this movie fails is as a dark or black comedy. Its really not very funny, and the offensive/rude humour that randomly pops up feels almost out of place in this movie. Plus the performances for this side fall flat as well. Hugh Jackman is essentially wasted as a stupid car salesman, Ty Burrell just plays a weaker version of his character from Modern Family, and Jennifer Garner's character comes across as an awkward jab at Sarah Palin (who was popular at the time). There's also a meaningless and pointless side story with a stripper that sees basically no resolution in any of the characters it affects.If Butter had focused a little more on the heart-warming side and added a little substance, it could've been pretty good...but instead it tries too hard to be something its not really that good at.