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Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis, Kristen Wiig, Ben Affleck, J.K. Simmons ... see more see more... , Clifton Collins Jr. , Dustin Milligan , David Koechner , Beth Grant , T.J. Miller , Javier Gutiérrez , Lidia Porto , Gene Simmons , Matt Schulze , Lamberto Gutierrez , Brent Briscoe , Hal Sparks , Nick Thune , Tom Virtue , Christopher Ryan Rocha , Jenny O'Hara , Matthew Williams

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 a... read more read more...valanche 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 company will be bought out, the frazzled owner attempts to catch the culprit responsible for stealing wallets from the coat room and begins to suspect that his wife is sleeping with the gigolo he hired to seduce her. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 30 min.

Directed by: Mike Judge

Release Date: September 4, 2009

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DVD Release Date: December 22, 2009

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  • FrizzDrop
    October 22, 2012
    FrizzDrop
    Extract is a live action film written and directed by Mike Judge, most famous for his television shows King of the Hill and Beavis and Butt-head. His other live action films include the venerable Office Space and Idiocracy, the former being the basis for yet another workplace fol... read morely. Judge even admits that this is a sendup to his original film. While Office Space was about us drones, working for the unconscientiously dickish boss, Extract takes the lead from the boss in question and the problems that comes from that stress. While that in itself is an interesting concept, Extract suffers from the fact that it doesn't stay coherent, and struggles with defining the ill issues of said boss. Instead of real time workplace problems, main character Joel has marital woes, does a bunch of drugs, and can't seem to get rich. Instead of the uncomfortable office atmosphere and awkward workers, Extract relies on caricatures of small town USA to flesh out the cast. The comedy isn't as sharp as the original. The cast was really impressive for the film, including Jason Bateman as the crabby extract plant owner, Kristen Wiig as his repressed wife (who doesn't get enough screen time, in my opinion), and Ben Affleck as his druggy friend/bartender, and Mila Kunis as....I seriously don't know what to categorize her as. She's not a key plot point because she barely affects anything, she's not a romantic lead because she doesn't wrap up the plot, and she isn't contingent on anything so she's not really a lead character. Many of the characters don't really have any point. There isn't really that much of a moral, unless you count not sleeping around, but that keeps getting sidetracked by Joel's infidelities pretty early on in the film, so that's not it. Really, it's a Mike Judge kind of film, with little minded people and hard to swallow humor. It doesn't resonate, but it is another film about hardheaded people, and that is always at least a little entertaining.
  • danperry17
    August 30, 2012
    danperry17
    I watched this a year before I reviewed it, must have overlooked it or maybe my review didn't save... and while I thought I had given it a lower rating, thinking back, it's a lot more memorable film than I thought it would be at the time. The cast is excellent, particularly Krist... read moreen Wiig, and Mike Judge channels that same sense of humour that made Office Space a cult classic. I'd definitely watch this again, (and will add more specifics to the review when I do), but it was a funny film with a decent story that maybe didn't get the credit it was due.
  • fb791220692
    August 19, 2012
    fb791220692
    Under-appreciated comedy with a great cast that is admittedly light but unabashedly sincere.
  • blkbomb
    July 31, 2012
    blkbomb
    Joel: What if I tell her you did it all for money? How about that Ding-Ding? 

    "A comedy that hits you where it hurts"

    You know what, I really loved Extract. It's actually, easily my favorite work I've ever seen from Mike Judge. I honestly don't see what everyone is complaining ... read moreabout. This is a comedy that's extremely funny and has a great cast all executing their performances with effective use of the jokes they are given. And most of those jokes work. 

    Joel owns a flavor extract company that he is thinking of selling to go onto retirement. He's in a sexless marriage. So instead of being at home with his wife, he is at the bar with a moron friend of his. When a new girl named Cindy comes into temp; Joel instantly gets that old fashioned feeling where he just wants to bone her. Feeling guilty, he hires a gigolo to seduce his wife into having sex with him, so he can go about his business of fucking the temp. When he realizes this is a bad idea, it's too late. Now he has a wife that's cheating on him and a business that is crumbling after an on the job accident at his factory. 

    None of the actors in this movie are what I'd call amazingly talented. That isn't to say I don't like them, it is just none of them are Oscar caliber. Which isn't a bad thing with a movie like this. Jason Bateman gives the funniest performance I've ever seen from him. I always love Kunis and Wiig and they're both great here. Affleck's presence didn't hurt anything either, and J.K. Simmons is hilarious like usual. Gene Simmons even has a small role as a scheming lawyer.

    This movie was so much better than I expected. I honestly had no intention of ever watching this, but I am so glad I did. It is completely underrated and way funnier than about 95% of the comedies that are being released. It's a slight work, no doubt, but it did everything that we expect from good comedies. It also did it without being overly obscene. Not that that really affects how I view it because I love obscene humor as well, but you'd think it would be more accessible because of its restraint. In the end, I don't really care if no one else likes it because I adored it.
  • CreedsDelight
    January 19, 2012
    CreedsDelight
    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 escapis... read morem containing outrageous humor. You can furthermore experience the greatness of Extract in Blu-ray, presenting theater quality video, but not so much for the sound department. It may lack in the special features department, but the feature film is delightful enough to Extract that flaw out of the question.

    Read the whole Blu-ray review at whysoblu.com
  • fb576007796
    October 25, 2011
    fb576007796
    Classic Mike Judge. Ben Affleck is actually funny in this one. Worth a watch.
  • RCCLBC
    June 27, 2011
    RCCLBC
    This film could have been called "Widgets" or "Thumb Tacks" as the Extracts are merely a weak sub-plot for which this even weaker story is based.

    Impressive cast + good director does not = good film.

    Big disappointment.
  • bottcorecords1
    April 20, 2011
    bottcorecords1
    I happen to like Mike Judge films. No, he's not Woody Allen, but his films are clever and enjoyable in their own way. "Extract" is a little like a Coen brothers film, maybe a "A Serious Man" or "Burn After Reading" (it's even got J.K. Simmons in it, for Pete's sake), but one th... read moreat never goes for the jugular. Jason Bateman plays the bored owner of an extracts factory (vanilla extract, for example) who's not getting any at home and hires a gigalo to attempt to seduce his wife (Kristen Wiig) in order to not feel guilty about cheating on her with the new girl at the factory (Mila Kunis), who is actually a scam artist. While the whole idea of hiring someone to seduce his wife might seem like a bad idea, in his defense, he was on horse tranquilizers at the time, as supplied by his stoner buddy (Ben Affleck). It sort of seems like the set up to some film noir, or at the very least a comedy of errors, but Extract is content to merely amuse, and not strain itself to break any new ground. There are some very gentle shots at the typical american worker as well as small town racism, but for the most part, there's nothing being said here either. Strangely enough, Extract winds up being a light-hearted dark comedy.
  • movieguru12
    January 8, 2011
    movieguru12
    Average acting & average laughs, this movie is only ok. Office Space is 150 times funnier than this movie.
  • Julie
    October 19, 2010
    Julie
    Sadly, this was a less funny, less engaging version of Office Space set in a factory. With this great cast and director, I had been hoping for another stroke of genius. Le sigh.

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Critic Reviews

Joe Baltake
September 9, 2009
Joe Baltake, Passionate Moviegoer

'Extract': Mike Judge's Retro Jack Lemmon Movie Full Review

A.O. Scott
September 8, 2009
A.O. Scott, At the Movies

There are so many good jokes packed in there. Full Review

Elizabeth Weitzman
September 4, 2009
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News

The entire cast, in fact, seems to be having fun, with Affleck and Koechner cheerfully stealing each one of their scenes. Full Review

Amy Biancolli
September 4, 2009
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle

There are some priceless character turns. Full Review

Tom Long
September 4, 2009
Tom Long, Detroit News

It has all the ingredients for cult immortality and will likely live on long after this year's Oscar winners are forgotten. Full Review

Lisa Kennedy
September 4, 2009
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post

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. Full Review

Michael Phillips
September 4, 2009
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

Mike Judge's Extract -- modest, no big deal but very savvy -- is the funniest American comedy of the summer. Full Review

Peter Rainer
September 4, 2009
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor

The result doesn't seem as fresh as Office Space, but Judge still comes up with enough laughs to deserve our attention. Full Review

Christopher Orr
September 4, 2009
Christopher Orr, The New Republic

[Extract] resembles its titular foodstuffs: less a fully realized comedy than the distillation of one. The ingredients are there, and the recipe as well, but Judge evidently forgot that the whole dish... Full Review

Stephanie Zacharek
September 4, 2009
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

This isn't a misanthropic picture; its true subject is the way love for our fellow human beings is so often thwarted by their actual behavior -- and still, stupidly perhaps, we just won't give up on t... Full Review

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