Extract

Mike Judge's latest is a part-timer that never quite goes full.

For most of his career, writer-director Mike Judge has focused on ordinary Joes, starting with the young versions in "Beavis and Butt-Head," progressing on to propane salesman Hank Hill and his six-pack buddies on "King of the Hill," bored white-collar cubical workers in "Office Space," and the barely average G.I. of "Idiocracy" who becomes a genius courtesy of a 500-year nap that has him waking to a future ruled by dumb and dumber. He's at it again in "Extract," a laid-back comedy of very modest means and an equally modest payoff that is concerned with a decent guy named Joel Reynold (Jason Bateman), who owns a small factory that specializes in making food extracts, those amber bottles of almond or vanilla or any number of other flavors used in the cakes and cookies Americans no longer bake. [...]

di Betsy Sharkey, articolo completo (4748 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 4 settembre 2009