Friends with benefits is an experience in thermodynamics. In box-office pulling power of heat. Justin Timberlake's reputation as an actor is still a sizzling-for his role as party-hard entrepreneur Sean Parker in the social network, while many believed that a ballerina Mia Kunis raven-haired in Black Swan, flew each scene in which she appeared opposite Natalie Portman. Soft, warm, Smokin ': this is the kind of fire they create words individually. Because they are thrown out of their clothes and make out with each other for much of this romcom racy - should it be softcore sexcom? - How come sometimes it feels like a warm baked potato?
In large part, this is the scenario, a new virtual version of Ivan Reitman No Strings Attached from earlier this year. Kunis plays Jamie, an impertinent headhunter based in New York who was accused of luring Dylan (Timberlake) from its position in a small business internet in Los Angeles for what is described as work-no-more chic artistic director of GQ magazine. They immediately hit it off.
But because both have just been abandoned by her partner (Andy Samberg and Emma Stone shows themselves are almost short cameos), agree: they have no pants, no feelings relationship. They laugh their way to the Bonk and stay there.
Of course not. Soon things that happen. Things like emotions. Will Gluck's director, who wrote the screenplay with Keith Merryman and David A. Newman, imagine that I think is a clever twist or a surprise? The story has a go at the opening - Jamie began to whisper that she is "damaged," Dylan's father is found to have Alzheimer's disease - but it is also compelling that if Timberlake were to take singer Leonard Cohen. You may want to shout back to the rumpy-Pumpy!
In fact, friends with benefits is more honest in words than it is with bodies. There are jokes about erections and peeing and strange types of sneezing, a lot of it - as a gag during sex while listening to really Strummer Third Eye Blind - is pretty fun, but n is not as fun or zingily exchanged, you will be under no illusion that a Friskies, updated version of the classic screwball. Similarly, if Jamie Dylan promises that it will not show a "tourist version of bulls ---" New York is a city very deodorized (flash mob at Grand Central! How 2007!), Are exposed .
"Shut Katherine Heigl, stupid liar!" Jamie cries soon after seeing a poster advertising a romantic comedy actress. Gluck film is so eager to distinguish themselves from others in the genre - later, there is a search of disposable income Nora Ephron film - which goes out of his way to accumulate in the references to applications, the Amazon, Milfs, Hogwarts, the mobile phone contacts, the Wii console. Is it cool - or is, in fact, too? I would say the latter, and even before reaching the atrocious role Woody Harrelson as the team director so gay, Dafydd Matt Lucas seems underrated.
However, if you ignore these blunders, friends with benefits a few genuine pleasure to offer. The main one is that Kunis, even when the script tries to eliminate, is more traditional and emotionally needy than he lets on, still retains a touch of unpredictability strong, wild hair.
Justin Timberlake has not learned to temper his puppyishness - that is so eager to be liked - but he has his own against most Kunis. As for Patricia Clarkson as a kooky Jamie's mother, that never have enough Patricia Clarkson. The three of them is the kitchen of the film, if not as hot as you want.
Benefits Friends: Review Magazine
September Note: * *
This week and the other is more important publication, Jane Eyre, there is a change of dramatic proportions culture: imagining Jane Rochester suggests that connect to a no-strings sex every now and then, on the strict understanding that neither party to introduce all love dirty things, and you get the picture.
Such is the plot of the movie by Will Gluck, starring Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis as a successful professional in her twenties, whose experience of dating has been so dismal that they are willing to discard the emotion completely.
Kunis plays Jamie, a headhunter who recruits based in Los Angeles Dylan (Timberlake) for his dream job as art director for a magazine in New York. It took me a while to warm to the character Kunis, despite the commitment of his voice hoarse and cartoon-like beauty: in the beginning, it is so manic that Peppy I could feel a headache coming every time probable that the high heels click-slammed on the screen.
Jamie and Dylan are both eager to demonstrate their great carelessness in fashion: they stand, swear to, text, scoff at the Katherine Heigl rom-coms, and ultimately develop a joint plan to treat sex as tennis, complete with explicit driving instructions on how to improve the game
Soon, however, the iron laws of rom-com reassert itself, even in the face of the two characters openly struggling to escape. Despite his bravado on the surface, the film is too nervous to lose the sympathy of the audience to challenge convention long. Jamie's mother, an indication of free spirit, lets us know that his daughter has been until now a believer in true love old: the code for "people relax, it's a pretty girl heart."
In a short time, the feelings are the mean, however, has vehemently denied: Dylan is jealous when Jamie, in short, someone else answers, and Jamie is hurt when he hears Dylan vigorously deny their relationship. You can guess where this story is on track for the whole trip.
Kunis, and Timberlake is not the touch screen, fizz, but - rather than Dylan, and Jamie - this film is not much different or clever as you would think.