Butt Boy – Florida Man Stuffs Objects Up His Butt

The premise of Butt Boy is simple. Chip (Cornack) is an IT office drone who seems to be in a loveless marriage and needs a drastic change in his life. When he goes to the doctors for his prostate exam, Chip soon develops quite an anal fixation, stuffing anything and everything he can into his butt. Ranging from TV remotes to small children (who thought this would be a good idea?), Chip turns into a pseudo-serial killer, trapping everything he can fit into his fourth-dimensional, Stranger Things’ Upside Down-eqsue butt. 

A few years pass and Chip’s anal fixations have ceased. He attends AA meetings in the vein of being an alcoholic but we all know what he is really trying to give up. There he meets Detective Russel (Rice) who he promises to sponsor. Soon their relationship moves past AA when Chip decides to “abduct”a co-worker’s kid during Take Your Kid to Workday. A cat-and-mouse game begins which ends up with a laser-tag shootout and Russel consumed by the vortex that is Chip’s butt. 

While there surely is an audience for this strange, ironic comedy that plays off the tropes of crime spree films , but it’s certainly does not include this reviewer. Getting past the wacky concept, Butt Boy plays like a boring comedy spoof minus any laughs. If you’re working with an already polarizing concept like this, the film has to at least be funny, however, it thinks the humor in the concept alone is enough to sustain itself, which also happens to be its biggest detriment. There are some things to like here, however sparse. The film’s synthy, electronic score from “Feathers”was surprisingly effective, and the scenes inside Chip’s butt (wow that felt weird typing) gave off a lucid, hallucinatory vibe akin to this year’s Color Out of Space. In the end, what Butt Boy truly needed though was fully developed characters that make the film at least worth watching. 

The main characters of Russell and Chip were so one-note and dull that one can’t help but question what the point of Butt Boy really was. Chip completely fits the mold for dry suburban dad with no personality, while Russell was the run of the mill detective whose life is his job. It’s implied that Chip began his addiction when he went to the doctors for his prostate exam, though that’s as far as the film goes in explaining the why of it all. With a premise like this, why not go all out and have your characters brimming with personality?

At the end of the day, Butt Boy has a truly nutty and original premise that is unfortunately undermined by its lifeless characters and basic comedy. 

*still courtesy of Epic Pictures*

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Corbin Stewart

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