Extract

Starring: Jason Bateman, Ben Affleck, Kristen Wiig, Mila Kunis

Genre: Comedy

Rated: R

Joel is the owner of an Extract Co. who has to deal with his wife, his neighbor, his best friend and his employees while trying to sell his extract co.

Extract is Mike Judges latest attempt at a film after the miserable failure of idiocracy and achieving cult like status with the box office disappointment but DVD success Office Space.

Joel (Jason Bateman) is the owner of an Extract plant who’s love life with his wife Suzie (Kristen Wiig) has completely fallen apart. When a new temp Cindy (Mila Kunis) catches Joel’s eye he takes the advice of his best friend Dean (Ben Affleck) to hire a Gigolo and test Suzie to see if she is faithful, if she isn’t the logic is that Joel can pursue Cindy Guilt Free. Meanwhile Cindy has hooked up with Step (Clifton Collins Jr) to convince him to sue the extract plant due to an accident that cost him a testicle.

Extract tries to sell itself as a factory office space, however where it fails in that comparison is that the characters and situations in office space were funny because they were relate-able. There is nothing in extract that touches the same nerve. It tries with a busybody neighbor and the failure of the suburban sex life. However there just isn’t enough there to carry the entire film. Kristen Wiig has to be the least funny person to ever come out of Saturday night live. She is not funny in anything she has been in. Ben Affleck is pathetic as the Stoner bartender Dean, Blatantly trying to take from James Francos character Saul in Pineapple Express and Bradd Pitt’s portrayal of Floyd from True Romance. He reaches a level of failure not seen since Gili. Mila Kunis who was fantastic in Forgetting Sarah Marshall brings nothing memorable nor believable to her character. Bateman does what he can but should have just saved his time for the Arrested Development movie.

Extract is boring, Lacks humor, has no characters that we care about or any form of interesting story. For a movie that I really wanted to like and had high hopes for Extract was terrible, The tagline should not be “A Comedy With a Flavor of its Own” but instead should be “Suck has its own Flavor”"

I give Extract one Sniper Kitten, It might have gotten two if I could get the taste out of my mouth