Friends with Benefits
2011 Directed by Will Gluck
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Some friends come with a happy ending.
While trying to avoid the clichés of Hollywood romantic comedies, Dylan and Jamie soon discover however that adding the act of sex to their friendship does lead to complications.
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Awful. What makes this particular film so bad is that it thinks it's better than other romantic comedies of this type. In fact, it continuously talks about and mocks these kinds of films. Except it didn't earn this right at all, because it's just as cliched and ridiculous. It takes too long to get to exactly where you know it's going and then resolves in literally 2 minutes through a completely ridiculous romcom ending. I never thought in my life I would utter the phrase, "No Strings Attached was better."
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i want to both be and do mila kunis.
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Dylan (JT): "HARRY POTTER DOESN'T MAKE YOU GAY"
I don't care what anyone says, but I fucking LOVE this movie.
You get to see side-boob of MILA KUNIS! C'MON!
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I was unsure what to expect but this was actually not bad!
Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis have great chemistry and both are funny!
Woody Harrelson as the gay sports editor, Patricia Clarkson as the crazy mother and Richard Jenkins as JT's father with alzeimer were very great as the supporting cast.
Despite all the predictable elements is time well spent. -
This movie is the lick. No shit. Rate plus one friend like upboat.
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I just watched this voluntarily and actually quite enjoyed it. I'm afraid I'm beginning to develop a uterus.
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I was unsure what to expect but this was actually not bad!
Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis have great chemistry and both are funny!
Woody Harrelson as the gay sports editor, Patricia Clarkson as the crazy mother and Richard Jenkins as JT's father with alzeimer were very great as the supporting cast.
Despite all the predictable elements is time well spent. -
Director Will Gluck is on a streak now, with three solid comedies in a row - this, Easy A, and Fired Up (seriously, it's funny!). A smart, sexy romantic comedy that certainly isn't anything groundbreaking, but it packs plenty of fun. As the leads, Justin and Mila are perfect together, and the supporting cast piles on the laughs too, particularly Patricia Clarkson and Woody Harrelson. Friends With Benefits is yet another strong comedy in a year packed with them.
Justin Timberlake is about to break through. I've been saying for years he may just be the next Will Smith - perhaps not quite to the same mega-level, but I'm betting he'll be a real movie star. Much like Smith, he went about the music-to-movies transition smartly, with small but strong roles in films like Alpha Dog, Southland Tales, and Social Network, and repeatedly proving his comedy chops as one of SNL's all-time best hosts.
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No, that’s not deja vu, we’ve already been here before thanks to Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman in ‘No Strings Attached’, released earlier this year. The fact that ‘Strings’ relied largely on Kutcher’s charm and Portman’s comedic chops probably tells you everything you need to know about that earlier effort.
So why bother with a retread that swaps Portman for her predatory Black Swan nemesis Mila Kunis, and Kutcher for former boyband member Justin Timberlake? In a nutshell, the three C’s: Comedy, Chemistry and C…unning linguistics.
Like a number of recent rom coms there are frequent opportunities to admire both Kunis and Timberlake in the near buff (allowing audience members to salivate and self-loathe at the same time). Naturally, there…
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I always thought this was only about sex - but I wanted to watch it anyways because people thought it was good, so yesterday I finally did it.
I like the idea of the story and again- I love the main actors, Timberlake and Kunis are a hot pairing and they play convincingly.
Proving the opposite of what I thought, the movie has some deep thoughts hidden in it and I like the movie even though you can guess the end of it, of course. -
Jump by Kris Kross will never be the same.
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A decent romcom but certainly doesn't set itself apart from the rest of them.
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Learned: one man organises all flash mobs. Love is all about insulting each other.
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Charis en Amber
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Really only watched to see the New York locations and I'd seen any-quite a few as it turned out! Mila talks way too fast, Timberlake so so, Patricia Clarkson plays a MILF and Harrelson plays a gay Roy Munson. Couple of giggles, nothing special though.