Butter is one of the craziest movies I've seen in a long while. The plot is preposterous. The characters are over the top. The whole thing is whacked. Yet, it all works to make a bitting, dark, sweet social comedy.
The cast is littered with near-A list talent including Jennifer Gardner, Olivia Wild, Ty Burrell, and Alicia Silverstone. Many other cast members have familiar faces. They all do a great a job being overblown caricatures of stereotypes. Garner's ambitious house wife is crazed and in most hands would be completely unlikable. Instead she comes off as mildly sympathetic. Wild's stripper is deliciously depraved. Silverstone plays the liberal adoptive Mom with sensitivity without allowing the audience to forget why there is a stereotype.
The subplots twist and turn and at times I doubted that the movie would resolve things in a satisfactory manner. Then the movie ends and it all sort of makes sense.
I highly recommend Butter.
