Extract

Extract - out of 5

Mike Judge has always had an interesting take on humor from Beavis And Butthead to King Of The Hill to Office Space to Idiocracy, but this just didn't work. All of the elements are here: Mike Judge's writing and directing, check; a star studded cast, check; what seems like a good budget, check... so what happened?

Joel (Jason Bateman) is the owner of an extract business who is starting to wonder who he is anymore. Struggling with a wife who he's never intimate with (or really talks to for that matter) (Kristen Wiig) and worrying about selling his business leads to lots of really, really stupid decisions by Joel.

Cindy (Mila Kunis) is a con-woman who decides to take the recent "work incident" at Joel's business to get her hands on as much moolah as her soon-to-be-settlement-rich mark, Step (Clinton Collins, Jr.) has by seducing him and hoping to manipulate him into a lawsuit and reaping (or stealing) the benefits. As Cindy starts working as a temp at Joel's business, he begins to think of his lack of sex life with his wife and starts to consider Cindy's manipulation as flirting and an "in" for sex with her.

Yes, this is the plot of this movie... Anyways after a bad idea to take some horse tranquilizers from his "good friend," Dean (Ben Affleck), there's some plan about getting a gigolo to try to have sex with Joel's wife, and if she does it, he'll feel better about cheating on her with Cindy.

So stupid decision after stupid decision is made by stupid characters that aren't really funny at all and then it ends. J.K. Simmons as Brian was the only thing funny about the movie. He had some great lines.

Who casts Gene friggin' Simmons as an actor for cryin' out loud?!

In other words, don't waste your time.