Extract

I'm a big Mike Judge fan.

Still, don't see extract. Sorry Mike.

I think what was going on in this film was an attempt to adapt the humor of awkward situations done so perfectly in King of the Hill to the big screen. The problem is that the main character sails through it too smoothly, handles it too well. Never a blush, never a real outburst, never real panic. This man's life goes down the drain, but he handles it calmly, and in the end pulls it back out. His botched attempts in the mean time are carried off without flourish or self consciousness, and the absurdity of the situations blurs into everyday disasters.

The only thing that really had people laughing during the entire movie was David Koechner's untimely death, and that scene was set up by Kristin Wiig, who actually managed to put on an entertaining performance when her character's life started going to shit. Good, considering she had something like five minutes on screen.