Today, I watched an interesting, albeit, odd movie, Butter.

It was about, as you might have guessed, butter, or more accurately butter sculpting and butter sculpting competitions. It stars Jennifer Garner, Hugh Jackman, Olivia Wilde, Ty Burrell, Alicia Silverstone, Rob Corddry and Yara Shahidi as Destiny, the charming little girl who not only starred but narrated the story, it was sort of her story.

Butter sculpting and the competition are real, just in case you didn’t know. Check out the link from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_State_Fair

Yara plays Destiny, a young girl who has been passed from foster parents to foster family and she has watched Jennifer Garner and Ty Burrell on tv, Ty Burrell plays the champion butter sculptor, 15 years running. When Ty’s character retires, his wife decides she is going to carry on the family tradition and compete.

Here comes Destiny, who didn’t think she was good at anything and found her passion and what was good at, butter sculpting. Her sculptures were thoughtful, thought provoking, sweet and tender and flat out, wow! I mean, it’s butter, why not!

There were laughs, tears, some oddly foul language that I never thought I’d hear in a movie like this, but that added to the indie film feel.

All in all, I started watching because I thought, “why not”, there were a few moments of train wreck (you can’t look away), then I just had to know who won, did Destiny get adopted and was there a happy ending.

So, all in all. I say, go for it! Watch Butter, it won’t go to your waistline!