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- 2009
- R
- Miramax
- 1 h 32 m
- 2009
- R
- Miramax
- 1 h 32 m
Summary Joel is one step away from selling his flavor extract factory and retiring to easy street when a freak workplace accident sets in motion a series of disasters that put his business and personal life in jeopardy. (Miramax)
Directed By: Mike Judge
Written By: Mike Judge
- 2009
- R
- Miramax
- 1 h 32 m
- 2009
- R
- Miramax
- 1 h 32 m
Extract
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6.2
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Summary Joel is one step away from selling his flavor extract factory and retiring to easy street when a freak workplace accident sets in motion a series of disasters that put his business and personal life in jeopardy. (Miramax)
Directed By: Mike Judge
Written By: Mike Judge
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 33 Critic Reviews
61
61% Positive
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
36% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 33 Critic Reviews
61
61% Positive
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
36% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
The funniest American comedy of the summer.
Extract is an exuberant original...like no other and one of the best comedies of the year.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 59 User Ratings
6.2
46% Positive
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
46% Mixed
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
8% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 59 User Ratings
6.2
46% Positive
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
46% Mixed
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
8% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
From "Beavis and Butt-Head" to "King of the Hill" to "Office Space," Mike Judge has become our most dogged examiner of middle-American foolishness; no other comedy filmmaker more skillfully exploits that nagging sense that you’re surrounded by idiots.
Although never boring and almost continually amusing, Extract doesn't work as a movie because you don't buy a minute of it, even as silly satire.
The jokes in Extract play almost like afterthoughts, the last-second add-ons of a former animator who, until now, has always treated his flesh-and-blood characters a bit like cartoon caricatures and vice versa.
Easily the most disappointing movie of the summer, Extract is more significantly the biggest letdown of its esteemed creator’s career.
May be the most disappointing American comedy of the decade, partly because it's jokeless and joyless but mostly because it squanders an all-star cast of superb comic talent.
This deserves some credit for being willing to go out on a limb and tackle some subjects you don't encounter much in comedies. But that is where the problem is. Do people really have guffaw over guys who buy young male prostitutes for their wives and end up getting chummy with them? And apparently nice, sweet women who turn out to be thieves - that is always good for a laugh, right? Judge revisits Office Space territory with this tale of an average guy entrepreneur, but then ups the ante. The supporting cast features a bunch of big stars.
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An unusual film subject which ultimately ends up working and being quite humorous. Jason Bateman is in top-form in this not-your-average comedy. Not bad!
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Wow did this movie blow. I give it a 1 for effort but I haven't seen something **** this bad in a while. I don't even know WTF the movie was about? All I know was that it was depressing as hell and was a huge waste of my life.
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