gavin6942 Art Frankel (Jay Baruchel) arrives at his girlfriend Cody's apartment to find that she has overdosed on heroin. He tries to fix things by traveling back in time in an attempt to prevent her death.This is a weird time travel story, that largely avoids the fun paradox issues, and comes across something like "Butterfly Effect" (but less dramatic). I wanted to like it, and did for a while, but it became more stale as the time ticked on.I appreciate the attempt an found it to be rather clever in a number of ways, but never never enough... there was nothing in this film that made it really stand out and be worth recommending to another viewer.

morgie55 Inner city homeless teenage boy in love with inner city almost homeless teenage dropout who also does some prostituting and drug abuse on the side. The boy is a depressing little guy who likes to take drugs, spaces out, has homeless friends, distrusts authority and lies an awful lot! One day while breaking into his girlfriend Cody's apartment, he finds her unconscious. Ambulance guys suddenly come in, we don't know who called them. They ask him how long has she been out and he lies and says she just let him in (again with the lies).She ends up in a coma in the hospital and is near death. This low IQ scum just doesn't get it and goes into denial. Somehow he ends up in a homeless place that has a sofa chair. The sofa chair turns out to be a time/space machine. You tell it where you want to go and it does it.He goes back to before "Cody got messed up" and finds that she was embarrassed with her period during gym class. After two or so failed attempts to get her tampons he finally succeeds in doing so. Why he thinks Cody going through her period made her quit high school and go on drugs is anyone's guess.The movie is somewhat endearing and heartwarming. He is guessing on what's up with his druggie girlfriend and going back in time to try to "save" her.The movie is mildly interesting how Art tries to fix her past to fix her present and goes through all kinds of nonsense to handle her. But it's one of those time travel stories that has changes just make things worse. The final "twist" was predictable, but cute.It's like a director pretending to be a Kevin Smith movie using a sofa chair time machine, with Tenderloin bums as movie stars.Mildly recommended.

Michael Petro Our hero Art is appalled at what has happened to his street girlfriend. When the unlikely opportunity to muck about in the past presents itself, he embarks on a search to find just the right moment where he can apply a tourniquet to her bleeding life.Nothing seems to work, until Art finally faces up to his own role in her demise.This story is told with charming devices - a magical beat-down easy chair garnished with Christmas lights, a street prophet that could be right out of "The Fisher King," and an easy humor that coaxes out the darkness of the story and its players with sharp relief.

Greatornot This movie was not even one of the sequels to Butterfly Effect. It was the same movie. Protagonist lived but may have well died because his love was gone. Then again, what you do not know does not hurt you. I thought that the lead actor Jay Baruchel overacted . Sarah Lind was fine in her role as Cody. Art ,our protagonist was not a likable guy at all. I did not see it in his personality that he would be unselfish, especially the way he changed the Christmas Party and hurt Helmet the way he did. That was just downright mean. The film was uneven. I mean finding a recliner that was a time machine. I thought that was just silly. I also did not understand how the hospital could not find Codys last name when she was paying rent and utilities in an apartment. Loose ends like that got to me. I did not like Art , he came across as just very belligerent . Maybe if his childhood was explored a bit, I would understand somewhat of why he turned out to be a druggie. The movie was entertaining but really for not the right reasons. It was silly. Watch it but do not pay for this. If I paid to see this my rating might be a pt or 2 lower.