The Rom-Com has finally been revitalised!! Until The Kunis-Timberlake chemistry hit the big screen it all seemed so bleak for the Rom-Com! Long gone were the days of Bridget Jones and Love Actually with recent additions to the genre such as 'Love Eat Pray', 'The Bounty Hunter' and 'Sex and the City' having dragged the once great tradition down to depths of box office death.
Gliding along with the hilarity of 'No Strings Attached', 'Friends With Benefits' latches on to an almost identical comedy feel. Where it furthers upon Kutcher's latest attempt is the fact it leaves you thoroughly impressed and with a warm feeling inside at the end.
Not only does it modernise the Rom-Com, doing away with the same-same Hollywood cheese-fest; boy meets girl, they fall in love, they fall out of love, they make up, they marry, the end. It also has a touching storyline throughout showing the struggles of two troubled families, which has led to the issues our protagonists face in the romance department.
Friends With Benefits is a win all around, for men it has the beautiful body of Mila Kunis being flaunted around with little more than underwear on, and the hilarious one-liners of the infamous Woody Harrelson to maintain the manly factor (albeit if he plays a brilliantly camp gay Sports Editor at GQ magazine). And for women? What more can you ask for if not the slushy romance, the chizzeled Justin Timberlake, and the famous love scenes of New York City.
This one, my friends, is most definitely a must-see, no matter what gender, what age, what sexuality, you will be happy you let yourself back into the rom-com genre with this well shot, well wrote film.
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