I saw this movie when I was in third grade. It’s kind of like “The Sandlot”....if it were directed by Ned Flanders.

i'm legitimately mad this movie was a corny white boy christian film instead of a gang of rogue bakers committing petty crime to save their struggling bakeries

I do love how Pete has two nameless goons who just appear in town with him and then vanish when he leaves, and commit no acts of violence or trouble on their own. He can apparently summon minions from hell.

This movie is so blindingly white, the moths started bump into my screen.

New petition for all Stoned Gremlin fans to be henceforth known as Brad's Butter Creamers.

This movie has what I call artificial wholesomeness: it tries to be wholesome, but it comes off as an uncanny imitation of it

"WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU PEOPLE?" Right with you there, Pete.

Pete was actually a legitimately decent actor for his age in this movie

"If I give you the money, then you're not robbing me." Uh, that's pretty much the exact definition of robbery, actually.

They made us watch this in second grade. I didn't understand it back then. Now I realize it's because there was nothing to understand.

This makes 'The Sandlot' look like a R movie

When I was a kid I watched this movie at my grandma’s! Bless her soul, she had the purest heart amidst all the horror she’d been through. Rest in peace grandma, I love you♥️

* Reads title. Opens video. Starts typing * " This sure sounds like a por... " * Brad's fucking lovely face looks at you. No words are spoken yet. * He knows. Abort.

The kid playing Pete is legitimately a really good actor.

It's like someone took all the horror elements out of a Stephen King Novel and made a movie out of it!

With the touching piano music coming in and the line " Buttercreaming isn't just about helping people out..." all I can fucking imagine is some horrible, sleazy Madtv sketch where they decide to make a parody of heartwarming "message-related" movies starring a group of disgusting fetish-porn actors who decide to band together to save a bunch of orphans. Damn. I really need to get a job in television. They need my ideas

I didnt know ProJared was the leader of the Buttercream Gang?!

When I hear "buttercream", I can only think of buttercream icing. Oh man, nothing says "cool gang name" like rich floral frosting.

"If I give you the money you're not robbing me" Um what?

This is the kind of movie Frylock would show Master Shake to deprogram him after being bitten by a radioactive black construction worker.

Michael D. Weatherred's performance as Pete was a revelation. He was utterly convincing as a cold blooded gangster fallen from grace. Truly chilling.

bushwacked by the buttercream gang...

I'm pretty sure we watched this one day at (private christian) school. When even the most sheltered, whitebread, goody-two-shoes christian kids openly snicker at your movie title, there's a problem.

Yeah, that's why I moved away from Chicago. Way too many gangs, and not many butter cream.

Belive it or not, Wikipedia provides an explanation for the title: The ButterCream Gang was formed several decades prior to the storyline during World War II. The local women were left unable to churn butter with their men gone. A group of boys began going around town to help them do this (hence the name) and other chores. Over the years, the group expanded to four members and eventually came to do all sorts of helpful things for the locals.

Despite all the ignoring, abuse, and rudeness she gets, I think Margret will grow up to be a well balanced girl that just happens not to like Mondays. At least she'll get a song about her from the Boomtown Rats!

I was dating a girl who told me this was her favorite movie as a kid. So in an effort to get to know her better I asked her if she wanted to watch it with me. She had grown up in an evangelical household so I tried to keep in mind that her choices were limited but it was kind of heartbreaking to watch this movie and think that THIS was the apex of her cinematic experience as a young person.

“ERRR, HUUR HUUR HUUR! BUDDER CREHM!!!”

I remember this movie!! In elementary school in Rockford Illinois in the early 90's they made us watch this movie in class. Around the same time there was this one Christian group that went around doing different assemblies where they would smash cinder blocks with karate chops. "Through the power of Christ I can smash this cinder block with a strategically placed karate chop!!" One of the guys in the group said, "Once when I was 12 there was this one kid who wouldn't stop picking on me. So, one day I lost it and stabbed him to death with my pocket knife. But now I found Christ, and with the power of Christ I can smash this cinder block!!" It was the most bizarre thing ever.

NO NO NO YOU CALL YOURSELF SWITCH BLADE SISTERS LIKE A REAL GANG LMFAO🤣

Pete is like the mysterious love-child of Paul Reubens and Christian Slater.

I love how angry you get. I feels genuine every time. Thanks for making me chortle uncomfortably.

A staple of my childhood! Watched it over and over and over and over again for years. I recently rewatched it and got a lump in my throat, as corny as it may be, it is and will always hold a special place in my heart

Because anybody who goes from lily-white America to 'Chicago,' you immediately become a Cholo straight from House of Buggin. Tonight, on 'White Gallery.'

This movie, and many like it, really give me the creepy vibe. It's like everyone in the town has been removed from reality and lobotomized until the concept of 'bad things' ceases to exist for them, and when they encounter it they can't compute the consequences of becoming enablers.

Please do more from Feature Films. Watched nearly all of them as a kid. Laughed so hard at the two buttercream reviews. Please do more

I’d like to take members of the bloods and crips. Tie them up and make them watch this movie. Afterwards, ask them. “What did you learn?”

Sometimes I wonder if someone on the production team suggested "The Buttercream Gang" as a name for the movie, and the scriptwriters decided to go with it and make the movie an innuendo party as a result. That would be the best explanation for why half the dialogue belongs in a porno.

If I ever buttercream to Jesus, I buttercream all the way.

This is the most harmless and sanitized thing I have ever seen. Even "Leave it to Beaver" is more hardcore than this shmoltzy made-for-grandparents film.

Hey, Scotty. Buttercream, bro!

Hang on, is that... Did they actually use comic sans on their movie's box cover?

When I was in 4th grade this was my state's answer to educating kids against joining gangs. I remember how none of it made sense and now I can see how really clueless those in charge were about the issue. Thank you Cinema Snob.

The VHS box art reminded me of a lot of Mormon/LDS videos from the 1970s. I felt it deserved more investigation... so I Googled this movie and found out it was filmed in Riverton & Draper, Utah, and is distributed by "Feature Films for Families" in Murray, Utah. The music was composed by Kurt Bestor, who does a lot of music for LDS videos, the 2002 Winter Olympics in SLC, etc. That explains it. This film has "white and Mormon" written all over this thing. I tried to find the artist of the cover (the signature says something like "Mortus" but I can't read it), so if anyone can read it or find the artist for the cover, let me know. Another interesting fact: "Troll 2" was also filmed outside Salt Lake City, Utah. If it weren't for "Touched by an Angel", Utah would be forever cursed as a filming location.

The town in this movie looks like something ripped straight out of a Mormon's wet dream, lol. From what I can tell, the only non-white person shown in the entire movie was the Michael Jordan poster.

Hey, I remember this movie! Boy Scouts gave out copies to us when my brother and I were kids. Was crap then, still crap now but I've been trying to think of the title for fifteen years. Keep on reviewing 90's movies, you're bringing back some serious memories.

This reminds me of my days at Christian school. I think we had to watch this every year from kindergarten to fifth grade. The best part was when Pete was happy about something, and then an adult was like "Good job. Your DEAD PARENT would be so proud of you if they weren't DEAD" and then Pete got all sad.

"THIS TOWN NEEDS AN ENEMA!"

We got this movie in the mail, unsolicited, when I was a kid. We figured it was because it was filmed in Utah and we lived in Wyoming. Several of our neighbors got a copy, too. My mom wouldn’t let us watch it, but she did let us watch things like Good Morning, Vietnam. Now I know why. Thanks, mom!

Actually the switchblade sisters sound badass.

As bad as the writing and character interactions appear in these clips, it still feels more realistic than anything shat out by the Christiano brothers... Also, a few of the kid actors actually seem like they're not half bad. Given what they have to work with, these kids do manage to sound like human beings more often than what I've come to expect from these type of movies... But yeah, this movie seems super awkward. At times, you really wonder if these innuendos are done on purpose... And what a title! Want something really entertaining? Go to the "Feature Films for Families" wikipedia page, and read up on the company's telemarketing ventures!

Who the hell in the 90's is whimsically nicknamed "Old Widow Jenkins?"

this is the whitest movie since cool as ice

14:12 Swimming near the sewage pipe like Jesus intended.

Jesus didn't die for this.

I'm also really glad Brad Jones featured on "DVD-R Hell" those awful "Hell's Bells" Christian propaganda tapes that were trying to guilt-trip people out of listening to contemporary music. My mom and stepdad subjected me to those tapes too. And I grew up not even knowing the mainstream very well to begin with. People like my mom and stepdad were doing everything in their power to make me extremely unwell. And if I committed the mortal sin of trying to be well at all, my mom the psycho (very much an equivalent of the Mother Superior in "Silent Night, Deadly Night") pulled extremely sick, traumatizing shit on me, and to this day she keeps repeatedly claiming nobody has done anything to me. She's that amorally far gone. And when I was about 27 and was having a conversation to her and mentioned the mainstream, she didn't even know what that is, even though she's a grown adult. To her, everything is either holy or secular, and that's it. She doesn't even have any concept of the mainstream, even though she's one of the most disturbingly worst products of the mainstream. Hell, she pulls fucked up, sick shit on you if you so much as feel morally disturbed by her actions.

And They Banged, Hard! Best one liner ever Snob!

His parents are deceased, he is passed around to family members and he's under 18 but his friends dont understand his life is difficult?? These folks are awful

i did the 'lean turkey on white with the crust cut off' at my brothers wedding

Why does every Christian children's film feel like the censored version of Jared Fogle's most watched videos on his hard drive?

When our teacher tried showing this in class, she likely skipped over some sizeable portions to find the plot.

HEY! I'm a Buttercreamer too.

Another Snob episode, the best way to start the week. Thanks Snob for making Mondays bearable, HARD !.....

Thank you for reviewing this. The daycare center I went to in elementary school seemed to play this for movie time at least once a week. Even at that age I thought it was boring as shit.

Was that India line as random in context as it seems? Next time I'm playing ball with a kid, I'm going to say "Did you know that the White House was burned to the ground during the War of 1812?"

Wait, a "Parent's Guide" on the back? Wasn't that also on the back of "How I Saved the President"? Oh god, that's the same studio from "Flyin' Ryan" RUN AWAY

It's a good thing to know that this stars a young ProJared.

You know it's a religious movie when the only black guy is a poster of Michael Jordan

I've seen this twice, both times in churches. That should say all you need to know about the quality of this film. The guy who plays Pete isn't that bad of an actor, though.

This is one of your best reviews Snob. I come back to this one again and again and I still laugh.

I'm glad you brought up the messed up way fhey delivered the news about Pete. Even as a kid, I was like, "What's up with that?"

There's a movie called Both Sides of the Law made by the same director and Michael Weatherred reprises his role as Pete! I heard about it on a podcast and confirmed it via imdb. I've been struggling to find it though...finding that movie is my bucket list

i like how in family friendly movies from this era there's 1)compulsory heterosexuality 2) a boy picking on a girl cause he likes her. has the Cinema Snob ever reviewed Switchblade Sisters before? I wanna say yes and that i even watched it but all search engines are acting like they don't know what i'm talking about. I swear to god he reviewed it.

I'll never forget the day that my teacher said hugging can be a form of bullying....yeah. because hugging someone is totally going to make their feelings hurt and not at all confuse them and make them feel loved.

Pete doesn't have a dragon, 0/10.

I watched this earlier today while doing edibles and the one thing I pointed out is that this whole movie takes place approx. at 5:30pm on a July summer evening. The. Whole. Movie.

pretty sure I watched this as a kid...living in small town Mississippi ...its probably a garuntee that you saw this fucking movie.

My church actually has the Buttercream Gang, I was so happy to hold the VHS in my hand.

To be honest, I thought this movie was about a bake-off. I'm so disappointed. :(

Oh my god, please do No More Baths too. That movie has haunted me since I was a kid.

Buttercreamers sounds like a really hot fetish.

You ever watch a Cinema Snob review and halfway through stop and realize, "Holy shit. I've seen this movie before!"

Robbery: "The offense of taking or attempting to take the property of another by force or threat of force." He's still robbing you, dude. Just because you cave in to his threats doesn't make it not robbery anymore.

A Cinema Snob review of a movie I've actually seen? Truly, this is a historic occasion.

So my family are hoarders and we were organizing a box of old VHS tapes. Guess what we found? I was laughing so hard to myself. I honestly don't remember ever watching it or even hearing of it before this review. But it doesn't surprise me at all that my mom would have gotten something like this.

This may be the hardest I've laughed at a Cinema Snob episode in a while.

Pennzoil Foxworthy had me rolling 😂😂😂

The riverside confrontation between Scott and Pete really needed to end the way Snob envisioned it. Just clinging to each other desperately, rutting like animals, sliding and slapping their sweaty bodies together, all while Scott revels in the forbidden beauty of his dangerous companion....

Brokeback Mountain kids edition

Whenever I hear the term "buttercream", I think of buttercream frosting on cakes or truffles with buttercream filling. I'm not sure what Brad's thinking is exactly when he hears "buttercream", but knowing him, his interpretation of that term is likely much nastier. Nevertheless, he got great comedic mileage out of this hokey-ass movie. "And then they bang. HAAAAARD."

I lost it when you included Creepy Clay Walsh! BTW that creepy music you used never gets old IMO. :D

They should make a 3rd film called the buttercream gang 3 its about the characters from the first 2 films with children of their own and the kids are new generation of buttercreamers that set out to stop property developers from tearing down an old church and they even have like fundraiser and petition to stop the property developers from tearing down the church im also surprised they havent made a remake or reboot the property developers plan to tear down the church an replace it with apartments or something like that

At first, I thought he was going to say the name of the sequel was "The Buttercream Gang in Space."

Cinema Snob you are the gift that keeps on giving. My religious aunt bought me this as a kid, I had no idea wtf was going on except there was a lot of bikes and hokey kids, and now i re-discovered it as an adult thanks you your review.

This is four years old and I just discovered it...I watch it at least once a week.

looking at that quiz I'm going to assume this movie was made for teachers to show students in a behavioral class

When the fuck is shot on shitteo coming out? Did Brad cancel it

I can just imagine the big buttercreamer (his name escapes me) coming out with "got the right one baby. Uh huh, uh huh" in the middle of Scott's father's funeral.

You can't have a buttercreame gang without a lemon party...i feel cheated

Take a shot for every innuendo made in this video.