Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

GurlyIamBeach Instant Favorite.

Organnall Too much about the plot just didn't add up, the writing was bad, some of the scenes were cringey and awkward,

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

steve_koenig This film tries so hard to be humorously quirky it hurts itself in the process. From start to finish, nearly every character and event is portrayed as being unique and odd in a way that's supposed to make you fall in love with the whole mess. There are good actors in this, to be sure. Kevin Kline, for one. John C. Reilly is wasted by speaking in a painfully fake high-pitched voice that sounds like someone trying to voice a character for a cartoon (this could have worked with some voices, but in this case the director should have said "Well, worth a shot; let's try something else to make this character wacky").A teacher who gets fired for wearing a bra he finds in a teacher's lounge goes to Manhattan to find himself (his words). Although not yet reemployed, he rents a room in the apartment somehow afford by Kline's character (who acts as a male escort for society matrons, though he points out he receives no monetary compensation, which begs the question of how he affords a small but pricey Manhattan apartment). The rest of the film is devoted to showing that the characters are sophisticated but nonconforming.I actually looked away from the screen on several occasions I was so pained by the overacting and, much more, overwriting. I kept waiting for things to get better, even when Reilly started talking in his cartoon voice (with no particular point to it). I do like unusual comedies, even dark ones, but this film wasted some good talents, plus the money I paid to see it.

evanston_dad An ultimately fairly lame movie about a young man (Paul Dano) who rents a room from an older eccentric (Kevin Kline) and learns from him how to be a dandy.The biggest problem with "The Extra Man" is that the entire film hinges on what Dano's character learns from his experiences living with Kline, but what it is he learns is never made explicit to us. He seems to be confused about whether or not he wants the experience of being with women or BEING a woman (his hidden fetish is cross dressing), and there are several ambiguous questions about both his and Kline's sexuality that are never fully resolved. It would appear that at the film's end he's achieved some enlightenment about himself, but what that enlightenment is I certainly couldn't tell you.Dano is pretty good despite limitations in the material; Kline is merely serviceable. The film also stars John C. Reilly and Katie Holmes, who shows some spunk as a co-worker of Dano but whose role feels oddly truncated.Grade: C

Gordon-11 This film is about a male playwright and part time escort who takes on a young professor with transvestite tendency as his flatmate."The Extra Man" is an interesting look into the lives of three wacky characters, but it does not offer much else. It is engaging enough to make you keep watching, but it does not make you beg for more. The film concentrates on how the characters are at present, but it gives little insight into why they are the way they are. I expect that this kind of film to be more introspective, but it is not. The weird interpersonal relationships among all the characters are vaguely interesting, maybe I cannot get into them more because their universe is so far from mine.

drawsroundankles I feel it to be my civic duty to express my opinion to spare the innocent people the agony of enduring this very forgettable train-wreck. The fact that this film was ever classified as a comedy, I will never understand, I didn't see so much as even a chuckle. It took a while , but finally Paul Glaser, Christian Ford, and Roger Soffer can pick their heads back up. This box office flop makes Kazaam look like CaddyShack. What were Sheri Springer Bernan and Robert Pulcini thinking? The entire plot of the Jonathan Ames novel is absent of any true substance. How they thought that it would ever transfer to big screen well is beyond my comprehension. The only good that may ever come from this film would be if president Obama implemented it as a prescription for insomnia sufferers, that would cut the national deficit for sure. Anyone who voluntarily associated themselves with the production of this garbage owes a sincere public apology. Redbox owes me a dollar for stocking the flop! You owe it to yourself to skip this extreme waste of time!