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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Friends with Benefits

Friends with Benefits
Released: 2011
Romantic, Comedy (I think not on either count)
Director: Will Gluck
Starring: Mila Kunis, Justin Timberlake, Woody Harrelson
Rated: R
Running Time: 109 minutes too long

The breakdown:
I would retitle this movie Actors without Chemistry.

Timberlake and Kunis have both just ended relationships with their ex's when they meet each other in New York.  She's some head hunter and he's an up and coming art director for magazines.  She head hunts him and finally gets him to meet her in New York for a meeting with GQ Magazine.
They hit it off as friends and he gets the job.  So he moves from L.A. to New York and she shows him around until he settles in.
They spend so much time together bitching about relationships they decide it's better to forgo the relationship and just have sex.
Of course this doesn't work out and they end up "falling in love" with each other and decide to be a real couple.

The movie has talking heads full of cliches instead of actual dialogue.  It's predictable, it's boring, and it's all been done before in much better romantic comedies.  This movie could not keep my interest at all, of course, how could they with such hollow characters.
Do not waste your time on this one.  Instead see "The Adjustment Bureau" for a real innovative romantic sci-fi movie.

1/2 out of 5 for a lame overdone plot with boring characters who never have any on screen chemistry and Timberlake is NOT an actor.  He should just go back to boy bands.

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