Average Rating: 5.9/10
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Fresh: 114 | Rotten: 68
Extract has some very funny moments and several fine performances, but the film feels slighter and more uneven than Mike Judge's previous work.
Average Rating: 6/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 15
Extract has some very funny moments and several fine performances, but the film feels slighter and more uneven than Mike Judge's previous work.
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Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis, Ben Affleck, Kristen Wiig, Clifton Collins, and J.K. Simmons star in writer/director Mike Judge's comedy about a flower-extract plant owner contending with an ever-growing avalanche of personal and professional disasters. An employee at the factory has just suffered an unfortunate accident on the assembly line, but little does the put-upon owner realize that things are about to get much worse. As the injured employee threatens to sue and it begins to look like his
Sep 4, 2009 Wide
Dec 22, 2009
$10.6M
Miramax
All Critics (183) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (117) | Rotten (68) | DVD (16)
'Extract': Mike Judge's Retro Jack Lemmon Movie
There are so many good jokes packed in there.
The entire cast, in fact, seems to be having fun, with Affleck and Koechner cheerfully stealing each one of their scenes.
There are some priceless character turns.
It has all the ingredients for cult immortality and will likely live on long after this year's Oscar winners are forgotten.
These days, it appears to be a rare gift to do comedy in a way that comes across as smart, but never superior or willfully crass. Bateman has that talent to spare.
Extract doesn't have a memorable message, a moralizing mission or a satirical axe to grind. But if your life needs a little humorous flavoring, pour away.
A decade on from his sublime white collar wage-slave comedy Office Space, director Mike Judge returns to the workplace for this gentle satire.
There is a lot of unconvincing, random plot, most characters are deeply unsympathetic and the women are poorly served by underdeveloped roles.
Has many promising ingredients, yet somehow none of them quite gel.
The film is never funny enough, and comes across as dispiritingly mean.
Aside from being not all that funny, Judge's droll-ish observations on the small-mindedness of corporate America never hit the mark while there are too many go-nowhere plot diversions.
Judge knows his game well enough, but too often the jokes feel like seasoning to a premise that is just slightly overdone.
Extract is the kind of economical comedy that's more about sly grins of acknowledgments and quiet chuckles than rolling in the aisles laughter.
A bemusing black comedy that is as unfocused as it is unbelievable.
Bateman is perfectly cast as the understated lead and Kunis works well as divisive eye candy, but it's the supporting actors who really shine.
Mike Judge's latest comedy is never exactly laugh-out-loud funny but it's very enjoyable nonetheless, thanks to strong comic performances and a drily witty script.
Mixing absurd comedy with understated dialog, Mike Judge spins an amiable farce about marriage and work ethics
Judge really feels for these losers, making this shaggy, unfocused fun.
Judge's latest doesn't linger long in the memory, generating more gentle chuckles than outand- out belly laughs. But it goes down smoothly enough...
Extract works better as a bunch of miniature observations than as a singular piece, but viewed within the context of Judge's body of work, it's a funny and worthy addition to his suburban comedies.
I know I'm in the minority, but this movie is very funny to me. Everything about Mike Judge's Extract is delightful. From the story, to the script, to the acting; everything about this movie is a clear example of the way that Judge can put his audiences in a world of pure escapism containing outrageous humor. You can
August 10, 2011Super Reviewer
Classic Mike Judge. Ben Affleck is actually funny in this one. Worth a watch.
October 25, 2011Super Reviewer
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