| Reviewed on 2009-09-11 |
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| Rated | R |
| Received |  [1] out of 4 stars |
| Genre | Comedy |
| Website | http://www.extract-the-movie.com/ |
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Jason Bateman stars as Joel Reynold, an owner of a flower-extract plant. In a small town, looking to make it big. While his professional career seems to be on a good track he has a wide array of personal disasters. An employee at the factory has just suffered an unfortunate accident on the assembly line, but little does he know how many repercussions are to come from it.
As the injured employee threatens to sue and it begins to look like his company will be bought out, the frazzled owner attempts to catch the culprit responsible for stealing wallets from the coat room and begins to suspect that his wife is sleeping with the gigolo he hired to seduce her. Sounds outlandish but all so true.
In Extract, writer/director Mike Judge (Beavis and Butt-Head, King of the Hill) tries to make a large comeback. However this film is aloof with many things. The characters are underdeveloped. A lot is left to the imagination, from beginning to end. Mila Kunis portrayal as Cindy was pleasing, but her character seems to vanish from screen. The always hilarious Kristen Wiig was severally misused in the film and had little screen time. Ben Affleck as the bar guru Dean was very comical and enjoyable to see Affleck step outside his usual performance. Extract could not survive the bland dialogue. There was potential, but it could not EXTRACT it well.
Review By:
Jolene Mendez
JoReviews.com
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