Review of ‘Friends With Benefits’ (as Written in History Class)
If you have the maturity of a 16 year old or are under the age of 24, Friends With Benefits is for you.
Justin Timberlake plays Dylan an art director for a small website in LA and gets recruited by Mila Kunis character, Jamie, to work for GQ. They end up becoming friends after Jamie shows Dylan around New York.
Then after watching a romantic comedy they decide to hook up and be friends with benefits.
After all the beginning of the movie is filled with sexual innuendos and some risque bedroom scenes that will make you wonder how that got past the communist like MPAA.
It is a good movie considering the subject matter, showing how their relationship grew and evolved. There were some brilliant one-liners that left you grasping your stomach from laughing so hard.
The first hour of the movie was a nice change of pace from every other comedy made, (though I have yet to see “No Strings Attached”). But then it takes a turn for the worse, the last hour is a trip down clique road.
The second half of the movie involves Jamie meeting Dylan’s family in LA and the movie starts to turn from a raunchy teenage comedy to more of a romantic comedy.
The first part of the movie was fresh and new, whereas the last hour could have been from any romantic comedy made in the last 20 years.
All in all it was a good movie, but if need be you could leave half way through the movie and not miss anything too important.
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