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Extract Blu-ray Review

20 hours ago | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Mike Judge is a great comic observer. It’s apparent from most of his work that he likes to record how humans interact, how they bounce off the other’s peculiarities, and he has a special fondness for workplace absurdities. Judge’s 2009 film Extract - which follows the owner (Jason Bateman) of a Vanilla extract bottling plant as he struggles with selling his company and a wife that has become frigid - is all about the small details. Though the film never amounts to much, there are a number of wry, memorable moments to savor from the movie. My review of Extract after the jump.

Bateman stars as Joel, who is married to Suzie (Kristen Wiig), and complains about how when he gets home late she ties off her sweatpants, which has come to signify that there’s going to be no sex that night. This was in the trailers, »

- Andre Dellamorte

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[DVD Review] Extract

4 January 2010 4:00 AM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

If you didn’t already know the name Mike Judge after Beevis and Butthead, then chances are Office Space introduced you to his work. Judge’s work has always dealt primarily in satirizing the typical goings-on of America, whether they be the mindless chuckling of two metalheads, the monotony of the workplace or the peculiarities of family life. Judge knows his targets and tends to give them a treatment that’s at once both tributary and satirical. For Extract, Judge turns his eye once again to the subjects of the workplace and family, however the result is never quite as sharp and biting as Office Space or King of the Hill.

In a small suburban town, there exists an extract factory built from the ground up by Joel (Jason Bateman), who lives a sexually frustrated life with his increasingly tepid wife (Kristen Wiig). His life is never that far from »

- Lex Walker

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Extract Movie Review

31 December 2009 6:02 PM, PST | ScreenStar | See recent ScreenStar news »

Mike Judge created a cult classic with his film Office Space (1999), and while his latest effort, Extract (2009), isn't quite good enough (or bad enough) to earn the cult classic label, it's amusing enough if you're into (really-really) low-key comedies. Out now on DVD and Blu-ray from Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Extract stars Jason Bateman as Joel Reynolds, a decent guy who's built a lucrative food extracts business and is on the verge of making a killing by selling it to General Mills. However, what should be an exciting time for him is actually far, far from it. Selling the company may mean the end of the road for many of Joel's long-time employees, a gossipy, semi-dysfunctional group of men and women. His wife (Kristin Wiig) has no interest in having sex, at least not with him. One ambitious employee (Clifton Collins, Jr.) plans a major lawsuit after an on-the-job accident »

- ianspelling@corp.popstar.com (Ian Spelling)

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