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Judge, creator of Beavis and Butt-head (remember that quaint 20th-century duo?), the animated series King of the Hill, the sly workplace comedy Office Space, and the little-seen but cult-spawning Idiocracy, definitely shows his penchant for deadpan drollery in Extract. But sometimes things can be too deadpan: Bateman’s Joel Reynold, lamenting the lack of a sex life with his wife, Suzie (Wiig), confides to his friend Dean (Affleck) and gets little more than a shrug in response. If Preston Sturges is famous for his breakneck-pace screwball farces, Judge’s Extract is let’s-not-even-break-a-sweat.
But then, Extract’s matter-of-fact nuttiness starts to take over. A ricocheting mishap in Reynold’s Extract plant results in a worker injury, which causes the comely con artist Cindy (Kunis) to start thinking lawsuits and marriage, which brings in a sleazeball personal-injury lawyer (Gene Simmons, of Kiss), which jeopardizes the corporate buyout of the family-owned factory, which threatens 1) the employees’ job security, and 2) Joel’s early-retirement plans.
And then there’s a whole hire-this-male-prostitute-dude-to-have-sex-with-your-wife scenario – …

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He asks his friend Dean (Ben Affleck) for advice, and although Dean’s a bartender which should make his advice automatically awesome, Dean is also a Herculean drug user, and his adventures in chemistry have made him less than intellectually reliable.  He gives Joel advice, but it’s awful advice, starting with the idea of hiring a male prostitute named Brad (Dustin Milligan) to see if Suzie’s being unfaithful to him.  This is a point of particular concern to Joel since the hiring of Cindy (Mila Kunis) as a temp at the factory.  She’s got an agenda of her own that Joel doesn’t know about, which makes his infatuation even worse for him.  He has no idea how intentionally that bait is being dangled, or why.  He’s distracted in part because of an accident at the plant involving Step (Clifton Collins Jr.), one of his factory workers.  That accident could stop a buy-out from happening, and worse than that, it could lead to the closing of the plant altogether if Joel’s not careful.

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But it turns out that this movie is less about the workplace than it is another weak frustrated married life comedy. On one hand, this is a good thing because the workplace plot line, involving an industrial accident than unmans one of the workers (Clifton Collins, Jr., you can do better than this) and a scheming temp (ditto Mila Kunis) is neither interesting nor original. On the other hand, it is not a good thing because neither is the marital plot line. Joel is frustrated. His friend (Ben Affleck, bearded) advises Joel to entrap his wife into an affair, thus giving himself carte blanche to do the same. This was briefly popular back the days of, what was that again, oh yes, “Love, American Style.” There is a reason that show is no longer on the air. And it’s the same reason this movie should immediately move to the 99 cent bin and stay there.
Parents should know that this movie has very strong language and very explicit sexual references including adultery and prostitution. Characters drink and smoke marijuana. An industrial accident hits a man in the crotch with serious injuries. There is a comic death.

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… Extract” centers on Joel (Jason Bateman) who runs a manufacturing plant for flavor extract (i.e. almond, vanilla, cherry). Between discontented employees and a possible buyout, Joel is reaching a tipping point. The arrival of the attractive Cindy (Mila Kunis) only makes things more difficult. A drifter and a con-artist, Cindy nestles herself in with Step (Clifton Collins Jr.), a plant employee who’s recently been injured in an on-the-job accident. She pushes him to not take a settlement and attempt to collect millions in damages, which would bankrupt the company.
Meanwhile, at home, Joel’s lukewarm relationship with his wife Suzie (Kristen Wiig) begins to falter. Troubled by lack of any excitement in the bedroom, Joel confesses to his bartender friend Dean (Ben Affleck) his dissatisfaction and a possible attraction to Cindy at work. When it becomes clear that Joel will not cheat on his wife, Dean suggests hiring a male prostitute to make a pass at Joel’s wife, thus allowing Joel to make a move on Cindy, guilt-free. Enter Brad the gigolo (Dustin Milligan) – a 20-something, male bimbo (a mimbo, if you will), who Joel hires to be the “pool boy”.

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But will the time ever come when we’ll see a Michael Judge film? Sure, this is the dude who created those icons of idiocy, Beavis and Butt-head – a very “Mike” thing to do. But that was in the early nineties and Judge is hitting the big Five-Oh in less than three years. Is it time then, in other words, to start getting a bit more, well, Michael about one’s life and oeuvre?
It’s certainly crossed Judge’s mind. “Y’know,” he confessed earlier this week during a visit to Toronto, “I just might make one of those pictures some day.” He mentioned reading an autobiography of Albert Race Sample (aka Racehoss), the son of a black prostitute and white cotton broker who, after serving 17 years of a 30-year penitentiary sentence, became an aide to the governor of Texas and prison reformer. “I thought that might make a good movie,” Judge said. “Also I was thinking of doing something about [the tormented country singer] George Jones. That would be ‘A Michael Judge Picture.’”

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MJ: Well it actually kind of started out as that. In fact, I realized it was only worthy of a subplot and the rest came out later. It came out of a conversation with two friends of mine. A long time ago like in 1999, we talked about the Howard Stern Show where he’d do that thing where [the guy] is married and the stripper is in there, or whatever, and telling him his wife has cancer. We’re talking about how he’s never going to cheat on her, the only way is if she died or if she cheated. It kind of was a conversation we had when we started talking about that show. And us being married guys. I started writing that not knowing where I was going with it.  Sometimes it’s just little bits to see if I can work something out, and then I decided to make it all happen in this workplace comedy.

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