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Jason Bateman as Joel and Mila Kunis as Cindy in “Extract.” |
Mike Judge’s unromantic comedy “Extract” has lots of fun with incredibly flawed and funny people stuck in incredibly flawed and funny relationships, all performing incredibly flawed and funny actions.
Still, fans of Judge’s earlier works – the spot-on cubicle satire “Office Space” and the Darwinesque, futuristic farce “Idiocracy” (and let’s not forget “Beavis and Butthead”) – may be a bit disappointed in the relative conventionality of “Extract.”
Just as it sets us up for a critical skewering of marriage, friendships and corporate loyalties, “Extract” retracts all the subversive observations we expect it to make and settles for a warm and fuzzy, if not utterly unrealistic, reaffirmation of faith in people’s ability to do the right thing. (Given that, “Extract” will probably become Judge’s biggest commercial hit to date.) (Read more…)