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Deja Vu. Everyone will automatically compare Friends With Benefits with the movie released earlier this year with the same exact concept called No Strings Attached so let’s start there and get the elephant out of the room. While No Strings Attached was almost all about the sex, Friends With Benefits is more about the relationship. That may sound more boring to some people, but it’s actually more “real” and genuinely funnier. They are both completely manufactured romantic comedies aimed to the female demographic but Friends With Benefits is more in line with what people really go through and audiences will be able to relate to it more. Instead of Ashton Kutcher, you have Justin Timberlake and instead of Natalie Portman, you have her Black Swan co-star Mila Kunis. Everybody just wants to have sex, buddy.
Friends With Benefits is about a guy and a girl who want to have sex without the relationship. Justin Timberlake is Dylan who’s called “emotionally unavailable” by his latest girlfriend played by Emma Stone. Mila Kunis is Jamie who is deemed “emotionally damaged” by her ex played by Andy Samberg. Jamie’s a headhunter who lures Dylan out to New York from Los Angeles to take a job at GQ magazine. As soon as they meet in the airport, Jamie is goofy yet cute and Dylan is digging every moment of it…you can tell sparks are going to fly. Since Dylan is new to the city and has no friends, he starts hanging out with Jamie a lot and they eventually get to talking about S-E-X. Why can’t two people just have sex like any other physical activity? Like Tennis? They seal the deal over an iPad Bible app and you guessed it, it doesn’t quite work out the way they thought and of course there are complications.
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The tone of the movie is very quirky as it tries to stick you in the middle of these two characters with very strong personalities. You start learning the idiosyncrasies of each of them like Dylan’s terrible math skills, instant defense that Harry Potter doesn’t make you gay and sexually timed sneezing. Jamie, on the other hand, has hopeless fairy tale dreams and cursed blinking. I loved Mila Kunis’ character: she’s quick on her feet and goes after what she wants no matter what…girl power to the max. The chemistry between Kunis and Timberlake was almost nonexistent as if they were in two separate movies.
In fact, the script felt like it was from two different movies as well. I bet multiple writers worked on it because there were a lot of hilarious quotables and natural dialogue but then they spliced in blatantly obvious lines like, “look at my mother, of course I am the way I am.” The audience isn’t dumb…they could figure that one out. I hate when movies try to poke fun at their own genre in an attempt to be above the stereotypes and cliches. Dylan and Jamie keep watching (and making fun of) a DVD of a ridiculously cheesy fake romantic comedy starring Jason Segel and Rashida Jones yet the movie goes through the same cliches itself! JT adds his own soundtrack to the movie which is kind of funny but not what you expect.
My major complaint about the movie: not enough naked Mila Kunis! There is plenty of lingerie Mila though :) . There’s no full frontal nudity in FWB but there is plenty of backside from both Kunis and JT. Hooray for equality. The sex scenes are pretty funny…since they’re just f* buddies, there’s no romance and the sex is pretty nonchalant. They don’t do all the crazy positions like in No Strings Attached but it’s what they talk about during sex that’s really funny: “How was work today?” “Had a sandwich” “Oh, nice”. Woody Harrelson plays a flamboyantly gay sports editor at GQ and each of his lines are laugh at loud without a doubt. Richard Jenkins plays Justin’s dad who has Alzheimer’s and adds the serious element to the movie (like Anne Hathaway’s Parkinson’s in Love and Other Drugs – yet another recent movie about casual sex). Jenna Elfman plays JT’s sister Annie whose magical son is Nolan Gould who you may know from Modern Family. Masi Oka (Hiro from Heroes) is in here for quick minute as well as Shaun White who plays his douche self.
The movie feels like it was supposed to be released at least a year ago but was delayed or pushed back. There’s a running joke where Dylan keeps mentioning how planes pretty much fly themselves and that Captain Sully didn’t really do anything…that plane crash was over 2 years ago! The relevant jokes just aren’t relevant anymore. On top of that, they featured flash mobs…flash mobs! That was soo yesterday…when you make a movie targeted to the YouTube generation, you have to be up to the time and Friends With Benefits outdates itself. I wouldn’t recommend seeing it in a theater but it’s a fun rental. The one line I liked from this romcom (there’s always at least one) came from the gay Woody, “It’s not who you spend Friday night with, it’s who you want to spend all of Saturday morning with.” Like most of the cliche’s in this movie, that line is from other movies too but it’s still a good one. The basic lesson of FWB is to just get over yourself and your emotional baggage and stop sabotaging yourself from being happy or letting those around you be happy. Ahh-chooo
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