Friends with Benefits
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Romantic comedy in which Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis play two professionals too busy to settle down. They decide to step their relationship up a notch, while keeping it casual at the same time. Complications arise when Justin falls for Mila...
Starring
Mila Kunis, Justin Timberlake, Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson, Jenna Elfman, Patricia Clarkson, Richard Jenkins, Andy Samberg
Directed by
Will Gluck ('Easy A')
Written by
David A. Newman, Keith Merryman, Will Gluck
(R16) contains offensive language and sex scenes | Romantic Comedy | USA | Official Website
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good to see some new faces on the romcoms, fun movie even the man liked it
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A.V. Club
Romantic comedies - and this is one, in spite of its phony irreverence - turn largely on star power, and theirs is transcendent, whether they're casually trading one-liners on the streets or doing running commentary on their sexual escapades. They'd have been better off staying in bed.
Click to read full review.Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
The news about this movie is that it makes it clear that both Timberlake and Kunis are the real thing when it comes to light comedy.
Click to read full review.Empire (UK)
This coasts along just fine thanks to charm and comical interludes, but it fails to deliver the sassy story it promises.
Click to read full review.Hollywood Reporter
Goes a long way in bringing sexy back to a soggy genre, benefiting greatly from the presence of its likable leads.
Click to read full review.Los Angeles Times
Slipping a buff Justin Timberlake and a toned Mila Kunis between the sheets as the naughty but nice romantic pair turns the heat up considerably in this happily never after tale.
Click to read full review.New York Times
The results are about as naughty as that sounds (not very), but it also makes for a fairly giggling good time.
Click to read full review.Total Film (UK)
Sexy, fun and full of quotable zingers, if you see only one casual-sex-com featuring a Black Swan alumni this year, make sure it’s this one.
Variety (USA)
The raunchy premise here is just a smokescreen for the sort of squarely moralistic, altar-bound comedy of which even Jane Austen would approve.
Click to read full review.Flicks.co.nz "Friends with Benefits" Movie Review
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Rebecca Barry Hill, Flicks.co.nz
It might have seemed like an inspired idea: a romantic comedy without the romance and all the sex, starring funny it-girl Mila Kunis and the guy who brought sexy back. But there’s little to find funny or sexy in Friends With Benefits, a film that aims to be fresh and comes off as a flimsy, forced fornication-fest for the Y generation. (For all the mentions of iPads, video blogs and flash mobs, why the abysmal ‘90s soundtrack?)
Easy A writer-director Will Gluck mocks Katherine Heigl films for being implausible and clichéd yet winds up committing the same cinematic crimes. For starters, the friendship between Kunis’ Jamie (who’s damaged) and Timberlake’s Dylan (afraid to commit) comes on stronger than a New York martini, any professionalism that might have preceded their meeting (she head-hunted him for a job at GQ) evaporating the instant they lie side by side on a New York rooftop. And whilst there are a few amusing moments during the sex scenes, written to be pragmatic rather than erotic, the couple’s emotional intimacy feels as forced as an actor and a pop star thrown together in a room with cameras in their faces. Nor does it help that JT spends the majority of the time in Kunis’ shadow, her effervescent performance giving this most of its sizzle.
Likewise, the mad side characters – Jamie’s flaky hippie mother (Patricia Clark), Dylan’s Alzheimer’s-affected dad (Richard Jenkins) and Dylan’s deranged gay workmate (Woody Harrelson) are clearly planted as convenient devices to get this supposedly platonic couple together. This ain’t a quickie either, the climax coming too late.
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