I’ve got to admit – I’m not a fan of Office Space. I didn’t dislike the film, but I’ve only seen it once and found it had a couple of funny scenes, and I’ve got no desire to see it again. I’ve never been into Beavis and Butthead, and I pretty much hate King of the Hill. So the name Mike Judge, to me, doesn’t mean a whole hell of a lot.
Still, I’m a huge Ben Affleck fan, and I’ll pretty much see anything (except That 70′s Show) that has Mila Kunis in it, and Jason Bateman is having a pretty good run, so I thought I’d give Extract a try. It looked funny, and, like I mentioned, had a decent cast.
So, in Extract, Joel (Jason Bateman), the owner of an extract plant, is dealing with an unhappy marriage and an accident on the job that could lead to a potential lawsuit which could ruin the sale of the extract plant to a larger conglomerate. All the while, Cindy (Mila Kunis), a con artist, is using the unrest in Joel’s life to make some money. She gets a job at the plant and, in an effort to get her hands on the address of the employee involved in the accident (and reap his settlement rewards), seduces Joel and gets him interested in an affair. To help convince himself that it’s the right thing to do, his buddy Dean (Ben Affleck) convinces him to hire a gigolo to pose as a pool boy and seduce his wife (Kristen Wiig). If she does it, so can he, right? Read the rest of my review after the jump!
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