Today's film?
Extract (63% on Rot Tom, 6.2 on IMDB)
I went into this movie expecting something along the lines of Office Space. After all, Mike Judge wrote/directed both films and it would stand to reason that it would at least be decent with a 63%.
All I can conclude is this: I've made a huge mistake.
Words cannot express how much I hated this movie. The plot was riddled with horrible people committing stupid and/or terrible acts. The only, and I mean only, redeeming quality was the commitment of the actors to their badly written roles. Perhaps their believability was part of the problem. I have a friend who hates television shows with casts of terrible people (one example being Arrested Development) and I never understood it until this film. I think there is a very fine line between hilarity and a big mess and, forgive the pun, this film extracts all humor out of the situations.
For a bit of plot summary, Extract is about the owner of an assembly-line-type factory that makes, you guessed it, flavor extract. He finds himself attracted to the new girl on the line (a con woman played by Mila Kunis) and decides to HIRE A GIGOLO TO SLEEP WITH HIS WIFE SO HE DOESN'T FEEL BAD ABOUT CHEATING. He decides this on horse tranquillizers. There are a series of inane subplots including a hick who is suing the company for injury of the ball sack (I am not making this up) and a neighbor who is in a perpetual state of the creep. The end tries to tie it all up in a bow, as if everything could be okay after these ridiculous circumstances.
This movie made me hate everyone for about five hours. So I give it a 2/10; at least the actors took the material seriously to a certain degree. I could tell they were trying, which is more than I can say for frittatas like John Carter. At the end of the day, I'd recommend sticking with Office Space. You'll be happier there.
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