John’s Movie Musings

Odds are good you’ve got Office Space in your movie collection.  Odds are better you’ve worked in an environment similar to Initech.  Office Space is held in such high regard because we can relate on so many levels.  It helps that the movie is hilarious and the characters are all memorable, but we’ve all been stuck in a cube farm filling out TPS Reports at some point in our life.

Extract comes from the same guys who did Office Space (Mike Judge), but tells the story from the management side of things.  Sure, fewer people can relate to those stories and jokes, but I can still imagine veins of comedy gold existing there.  Especially when the premise of Extract is about a smaller company getting bought out by a corporate giant.  Comedy gold, right?

Wrong.  Extract is horrible.  Not only do they do nothing with the corporate giant plot, they remove all likable characters and spend too much time on a stupid infidelity sub-plot.  There are some (possibly) funny characters introduced at the factory, but they are completely one dimensional.  Gene Simmons can’t even work in a memorable joke or two.  But maybe that’s to be expected.

All in all, this is a complete waste of time similar to extracting vitamins from turd nuggets.  Stay away.

Grade: D-