108 minute running time but felt like an eternity … I got on a Jonathan Ames kick since I liked You Were Never Really Here (both book and movie) and his book, A Man Named Doll, so I got every other book he ever wrote and all the TV shows and this movie (based on the book of the same name) … I think Ames was sexually abused as a child and he has written a million weird, sort of sick stories about his sex life as an adult … Jonathan Ames is a sexual obsessive and this gets boring and repetitive after awhile … anyway the movie only touched on cross dressing and transexuality a bit, but Ames is very interested in these themes and I’m not. Anyway, one star, give it a miss.

Rex Reed: “The film knocks itself unconscious trying to be whimsical and offbeat, but is so contrived that it is as embarrassing as it is unfunny.”

Stephen Whitty: “If overloading an already interesting object with superfluous ornament is ‘gilding the lily,’ ‘The Extra Man’ not only gilds the flower, but then glues on sequins and forces it into cha-cha heels.”