“Extract” is supposed to be a comedy. Guess what? It’s not funny. And the fault lies with an empty script. The actors, Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Ben Affleck and Mila Kunis do their best, but there’s only so much you can do with a stupid premise and silly dialogue. Joel Reynold (Bateman) is the sexually frustrated owner of a company that makes flavor extracts. It he’s not home by a certain time every night, his wife, Suzie (Wiig) dons sweatpants, which means no sex for Joel. His bartender buddy, Dean (Affleck) talks him into hiring a young stud to pose as a pool boy and seduce Suzie. This will leave Joel guilt free to have an affair of his own with the new temp, Cindy (Kunis). Unbeknownst to Joel, Cindy is a con artist who wants to get closer to Step (Clifton Collins Jr.), who had a work-related accident, and the insurance money Step is going to get.
Didn’t you see all of this in the promotional clips before “Extract” opened? If you did, you saw the best parts of the movie. 9/17/09
"Extract" is a "cartoonish" kind of movie with an adult plot. Did I say "Plot"? Where did I get the idea that there was a plot in this dismal "comedy"? "Comedy", did I say "comedy"?
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