Butter
2011
Written by Jason A. Micallef, directed by Jim Field Smith
Rated R (language, sex)
This was an odd movie.
A champion butter sculptor (Ty Burrell) in Iowa retires at the height of his fame to make way for new talent, to the great consternation of his singlemindedly ambitious wife Laura (Jennifer Garner) who had planned to parlay their butter power into political power. Stymied and furious, Laura decides she will take up the reins in his stead, but she meets with unexpected competition on her way to the State Fair in the form of Destiny, a young black girl in foster care (Yara Shahidi) whose white foster parents think that butter sculpting is "awfully rednecky."
There's also a stripper with a vendetta (Olivia Wilde) and a used car salesman who's slick and sleazy and pretty damn dumb (Hugh Jackman!), just to spice things up a little.
It was not a brilliant movie, not incisive or especially witty or tremendously truthful. But it was a fun movie, despite its occasional clumsiness, and there are a couple of scenes that really broke through into excellence, particularly Destiny and her foster father talking about the Worst Things that Could Happen (e.g. being attacked by racist ninjas).
Light, fun, a movie to watch when you're not looking for much substance and are possibly a little tipsy.
IMDB Link: Butter
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