75
Armed with wit and charm to spare, Extra Ordinary is joyful and creative and deserves to find an audience — in this world or the next.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
90
Those expecting that a movie about an occult sacrifice to ever become scary will be disappointed with Extra Ordinary. The filmmakers use the trappings of that kind of film for an all-out comedy. Thanks to its nonstop jokes, strong, likable characters, and marvelous cast the movie is hysterical.
70
Extra Ordinary is a kind of tea-cosy “Ghostbusters” that’s consistently funny in a pleasingly off-kilter way.
60
The Irish Times by Donald Clarke
Extra Ordinary is not always subtle, but most viewers will yield to its mystic charms.
75
The A.V. Club by Jesse Hassenger
Some jokes may dissipate quickly, but its unusual warmth lingers in the air like a friendly ghost.
70
The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
A well-tuned vehicle for the comic charms of Irish stand-up Maeve Higgins.
80
Los Angeles Times by Michael Rechtshaffen
Like those cheeky genre-splicing comedies that came before it, the Ahern-Loughman collaboration doesn’t merely goose the boundary between charming and outrageous, it gleefully tramples it into oblivion.
63
Extra Ordinary is entirely too ordinary too much of the time.
78
Austin Chronicle by Steve Davis
It’s a scrummy omelette of a movie, a dish that’s off the menu. The ingredients are unorthodox, but they come together in an uproarious way. As a Dubliner would say, it’s absolute gas.
70
The humour is low key, repeatedly mining the juxtaposition of the supernatural and the banal; a likeable performance from Maeve Higgins is the picture’s driving force.