Extract: Film Review
Extract, the latest film from Beavis and Butt-Head cohort, Mike Judge, is like a doughnut without the jam.
It’s good, but not good enough.
That’s not to say Extract is a bad movie. Only for a film with such a strong comedic pedigree, it’s a bit light on the laughs.
Extract: Slipping Quietly into the Night
Extract has about as much plot as a documentary on clothes pegs – probably less, in fact. What we get is a snapshot in the life of factory owner Joel, played by Jason Bateman.
Joel is caught in the throes of a string of bad luck, including workplace issues and his wife’s affair with a gigolo. With money coming out of his ears, it’s hard to feel sorry for him. But what the hell, let’s go with it anyway.
Bateman is in comfortable territory here, inhabiting a character not too far removed from his Arrested Development days.
He walks breezily through the pedestrian script, stopping here and there to deliver a funny line or two.
The real standout performance, though, is dispensed in typical style by funny man David Koechner.
Koechner plays nosey neighbour, Nathan, who springs forth from the undergrowth to impress his overbearing affableness on Joel at every opportunity.
Koechner has a canny knack of conjuring characters who, on the one hand you feel sympathy for and, on the other, you’d be quite happy to run over with a lawnmower.
Extract: Worth a Rent, Just
Extract lacks the focus and commitment of Judge’s earlier work, Office Space. The movie is short of confidence in its own ability to draw laughs. The setups are there, but the delivery is often left wanting.
Be that as it may, Extract packs in just enough laughs to raise it above the bar of mediocrity, but only by the nipple hair of a silverback gorilla.
Rating: 
stand89
2:43 pm, September 3, 2010
Though the movie sucked. was well disapointed as i love king of the hill and office space. gonna give it a rewatch to see if i missed anything.
stand89
rachat
8:15 am, November 25, 2010
I agree with most of your points, however some need to be discussed further, I will hold a small discussion with my partners and maybe I will ask you some suggestion later.
- Henry