Will Mila Kunis’ hotness outweigh Ben Affleck’s Ben Affleckness?
. . . No!
From the get-go I was expecting a lot from this flick, Mike Judge is a comedic master, serving up Office Space and Idiocracy to the mindless masses about a decade ago now – to say nothing of creating Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill, the latter a vastly successful show in its final season on Fox. I was thinking it was going to be an Office Space type comedy for the blue-collar working stiffs – and it was, kinda. And, while I laughed out loud a few times, I was hardly laughing so hard I couldn’t breathe which both Idiocracy and Office Space have achieved – even after a second or third viewing.
Mila Kunis busts out onto the screen in the opening shot, using her feminine wiles to wrap most of the town’s testicle-bearing populace into a purty good frenzy. (Yes, that is a Red Dawn line – deal with it). The film is a character actor driven assembly line of quirky stereo-types and peopleofwalmart.com’s most wanted. If you have ever worked on a factory line, maybe this one will strike a chord with you, but it didn’t really have much of an impact on me. I was hoping to see more of Kunis, and was let down in every sense of the word. Gene Simmons and David Koechner‘s scenes, separately, provided the most laughs.
With Ben Affleck finally fitting into a role I can accept him in as Dean the loser, stoner half-ass friend to lead Joel (Jason Bateman). Kristen Wiig played Joel’s wife. I usually enjoy seeing Wiig on any size screen, but she only slightly pulled me into her sweatpants clad bored house-wife character. She did manage to end the film with a pretty good laugh though, and people even clapped when the film was finished. And, as you might expect with a Mike Judge film, stick around for the credits.
The film has some interesting, unique plot developments, albeit a tad predictable. You will probably be disappointed with this film if you are a Mike Judge fan. And, unless you like seeing a guy get practically neutered on the big screen, rent this one!
