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Film Review - Friends With Benefits (VIDEO)
A rom-com that tries to slate rom-coms, where have we heard that before?
Published on 08/09/2011 by Stephen Lowe | Read 1638 times.
Video: Friends With
Tommy: The babies you two are gonna have. Those things are gonna get *really* big and then *really* small.
Jamie: We're not together.
Tommy: That was a highly inappropriate series of comments and I apologize.
You need not frequent urban dictionary on a regular basis in order to know what the title hints at.
But in case you live a more sheltered life and do not know, friends who consider each to have benefits often times have a sexually active relationship that is otherwise platonic.
Timberlake plays Dylan, an up and coming website designer recruited by Kunis' Jamie to be arts editor at GQ.
Will their plan avoid the usual pitfalls of relationships, or will the emotional baggage eventually catch up?
Director Will Gluck tries to hammer home his message, that men and women find it hard to understand each other, that his piece falls down.
A rom-com that tries to slate rom-coms, where have we heard that before?
Sweet, funny, romantic, and not nearly as post-modern as it pretends to be, Friends With Benefits has everything you'd expect from an R-rated romantic comedy, a bit of style and not a whole lot of substance.
Still it is better than No Strings Attached.
***
(3 STARS)
Starring
Justin Timberlake
Mila Kunis
Emma Stone
Woody Harrelson
Patricia Clarkson
Andy Samberg
Director
Will Gluck
Writer
Keith Merryman
Running Time
109 minutes

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