"Extract" *** (out of four): Mike Judge returns to form with this amusing, if oddly misogynistic, workplace comedy set in a flavor extract factory.

Ten years after "Office Space" became a cultural touchstone for cubicle warriors the world over, and after a brief detour into absurdity with 2006's unwatchable "Idiocracy" (the film's wit ended with its title), Mike Judge returns to form with the workplace comedy "Extract". In the film, Jason Bateman plays Joel, the owner and operator of a flavor extract factory. Joel is a working stiff with a typical Mike Judge problem: he's not gettin' any at home. If Joel doesn't make it home from work by 8pm, his wife (SNL's Kristin Wiig, successfully playing it straight) cinches the waist on her sweatpants into an impenetrable bow, making the prospect of hanky-panky a nonstarter. Joel spends most nights at a local watering hole, where long-haired bartender Dean (Ben Affleck, relaxing behind a shaggy wig) dispenses drinks with a side of bad advice and, occasionally, drugs.

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