Actors: Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis
Director: Mike Judge
I'm beginning to think more and more that Mike Judge got lucky with Office Space. Office Space is an excellent comedy that gets bogged down by its plot, and pads its run-time with those extended slow-motion scenes. Idiocracy, his follow-up to Office Space which got buried by its studio, was a one-note satire. Now we get Extract, a disjointed film that falls apart almost right from the beginning.
This film would have been far better had it not been billed as a straight comedy - its plot really seems more along the lines of Paul Thomas Anderson (of Hard Eight, and especially Punch Drunk Love). There's just not that many laughs here, and the laughs that do come are on ground that Judge has been over and over again. I suppose when one makes a career of repetitive characters, it's tough to find them new repetitions.
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Ouch! Sounds plain bad. Good comedies need great writing, a director with a serious sense of comic timing, and actors who can feel what is funny and what isn't. I must be leaving something out here cuz I ain't no filmmaker.
ReplyDelete"Idiocracy" was torture for me, and I watched the whole damn thing because I wanted someone to pummel whiny Luke Wilson, and it never happened. What a shame Judge had to make "Office Space" and confuse me whether he is someone to watch or not. I've seen that movie at least 4 times. Maybe the stars aligned.
let me very rewarding, sir.
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