Another film I didn't manage to catch in theaters.Mike Judge, the film's director, is known for his awkward situational humour, and while there is plenty of it to be found in Extract, the film just isn't that funny. With the classic Office Space under his belt, it would seem that Judge would easily be able to switch from the banality of white-collar work place to that of the blue-collar, but somewhere along the switch he dropped the ability to make the audience laugh.
Joel (Jason Bateman) is the owner of an Extract plant and he is trying to deal with problems both at home and at work. From his unfaithful wife, to dealing with a lawsuit resulting from a workplace accident, to a scam artist trying to scam the company, Joel is under a lot of stress.
Joel's life is the same thing everyday - he goes to work and is unhappy, he goes home and is unhappy, so he goes to the bar. Ben Affleck provides some witty insight, and Mila Kunis is hot. This continues until an event that brings the film to a rather unsatisfying end. No characters really develop, and aside from Joel, they are simple cliched caricatures. The film was rather dull and uninteresting - left me bored.
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