A Delightful Dessert!

We need more comedies nowadays - flicks that can make us laugh our hearts out such as Extract! Having said that, I find comedies always difficult to please than tragedies. Slapstick comedies never work for me  - anything by Jim Carrey, Will Ferrell, Steve Martin, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Eddie Murphy and the list goes on and on. I'm a Woody Allen fan, but there's only ONE Woody Allen in this world.

So when I watched Extract (at no extra cost apart from my monthly TMN subscription) on The Movie Network last night, I was absolutely thrilled. Jason Bateman, who's every woman's boyfriend, is once again outrageously funny. I never paid attention to Mila Kunis when she was on That 70's Show, but I started to take note of her femme fatale performance in Black Swan. In Extract, she's just the naughty, trashy con woman who traps every single man with her sexy and seductive looks. Even Ben Affleck is a pleasant surprise in this flick playing the ultimate hippy bartender who's always stoned.

If there's ever such a kind hearted, real-life man like Jason Bateman, even I will marry him! This movie just proves that what I've been saying about men is once again true - all men are ruled by their dicks! But this film is more than that - it's a funny, realistic picture about the clash between the middle class and the working class. Add in racial stigma, mid-life crises for both men and women, labour relations and brainless gigolos - these all constitute a very funny and delightful movie. It's like having a carrot cake for dessert!