Critics and viewers alike have noted that the film's greatest strength is its unwavering commitment to its own "bit."

: It utilizes a moody, 80s-inspired palette with neon blues and reds, giving it the atmosphere of a gritty crime drama rather than a raunchy comedy.

The story follows Chip Gutchel, a bored IT worker who has a spiritual awakening during a prostate exam . This sparks a compulsive addiction to inserting increasingly large objects into his rectum—which appears to have developed its own gravitational pull .

Tyler Cornack's (2020) is a film that defies its juvenile title by being a surprisingly disciplined, self-serious noir-procedural that treats its absurd premise with the gravity of a Scorsese thriller .

Despite (or perhaps because of) its name, Butt Boy has earned a reputation as a midnight cult classic. Fans on platforms like Reddit praise it for being "aggressively original" and "undeniably polarizing." It is a rare film that asks its audience to take an asinine joke and find within it a legitimate emotional resonance .