To the outside eye, Joel Reynold (Jason Bateman) seems to have everything. After all, being the owner of a business he built from the ground up - with its patented brand of culinary extracts - should make the "Extract King" a happy man. However, if Joel hasn't reached his front door by 8 o'clock, he'll find his wife, Suzie (Kristen Wiig) cinching up her sweatpants – and about as interested in him as he is in her mastery of supermarket coupon design. Sexually frustrated, Joel confides in his best pal, Dean (Ben Affleck), a barkeep – and soon finds himself wrapped up in a convoluted scheme to make Suzie cheat on him first with a dim-witted gigolo (Dustin Milligan) – thereby allowing him to pursue beautiful new employee Cindy (Mila Kunis) with a clear conscience.This is a tough to review movie. It was very well written comedy. Jason Bateman was awesome as always. There were good characters (JK Simmons always a favorite supporting actor for me). But ultimately the movie is totally pointless. It really just kind of treads water in terms of story/plot. Unfortunately, no matter how sharp I thought the writing was, knowing that the movie wasn't going to really go anywhere held it back big time.
I can't really recommend that anyone rush to check this out. Again, it has some good laughs. However, it is rather pointless and is just an hour and a half with some well written comedy. Looking back on it makes you really feel like you wasted your time.
