Mike Judge creator of the cult classic "Office Space" well-captured the unpleasantries and indignities of both corporate life and chain restaurant work. Judge attempts to apply the same bitter vibe to the experience of management instead of labor and produces a painfully tedious, funny-free 92 minutes. Jason Bateman plays a mopey, ineffectual, sex-starved husband who incongruously hand-built the successful, fictional, Reynolds extract manufacturing company. Unlike wealthy real entrepreneurs, Bateman's character spends all of his free time hanging out at a hotel bar with Ben Affleck wildly miscast as an aging stoner. Bateman and Affleck engage in dialogue so dull it is clear to the audience that they are struggling just to keep the energy up until the end of the scene. Mila Kunis plays a thief and conwoman with no other character development beyond just those two facts; according to the movie, swindling men takes nothing more than displaying small areas of modest cleavage. There is also a sub-plot about a gigolo hired by Bateman's character who easily seduces his frigid wife but this also goes nowhere much like any attempt to move the moribund plot forward. In short, the anger Judge judged teen life in "Beavis & Butthead" and cubicle culture in "Office Space" is on display perhaps somewhat diluted by his own success but the humor and keen social observation certainly is not. Hey Beavis, heh, heh, heh, this movie, like, sucks!
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