56
Metascore
8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 85SlashfilmRafael MotamayorSlashfilmRafael MotamayorButt Boy is an exceptionally entertaining and weird film that defies every expectation. Everyone should see this tragic and thrilling story of a man who becomes addicted to shoving things up his butt.
- 80The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisMaybe it’s the hell we’re all living through right now, but Tyler Cornack’s orificial fantasy struck me as a hilariously bawdy, intermittently inspired act of vivacious vulgarity.
- 70VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyIf your sense of humor favors stupid ideas done smartly, however, Butt Boy offers pleasures that aren’t even all that guilt-inducing.
- Instead of a gross-out gag fest, Butt Boy is a surprisingly tender bizarro comedy that works because it plays the strangeness straight.
- 58The Film StageJared MobarakThe Film StageJared MobarakIt’s like we’re watching a self-serious episode of whatever random police procedural CBS airs each week with an impossibly odd perpetrator rather than the opposite. That’s why the start can feel boringly redundant despite what Chip’s ass is doing throughout. It’s also why flipping the switch so depravity can reign late still entertains.
- 30Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangLos Angeles TimesJustin ChangSome might describe Butt Boy’s plodding, procedural-style storytelling as (ahem) assiduous, though I’d say constipation is the more appropriate metaphor: The story strains and clenches for more than an hour before finally reaching its bloody, long-overdue and admittedly eye-popping release.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeLess outrageous or provocative than puzzling, it will appeal to a very specific sort of irony-hungry moviegoer and leave most others shrugging.