He realises he loved her all along and puts together a big stunt to win her back. Sometime after that, Dylan takes Jamie home to meet his family, but she leaves, heartbroken, when she overhears him telling his sister that he could never be interested in her as anything more than a friend. She falls for a doctor who abruptly walks out on her, driving her back into Dylan’s arms, who comforts her as a best friend would. Dylan and Jamie’s arrangement works out great at first, but Jamie breaks it off eventually because she wants to start dating. The story plays out just as you’d expect it to (spoilers ahead if you have never watched a romantic comedy before). They bond over this and eventually come up with the perfect solution to their problem: be each other’s - and excuse me for using the term Sony had to censor - fuck buddies. Both of them are career-oriented, emotionally stunted individuals who are sick of the complications that come with being in relationships (which we see in the hilarious opening montage of Jamie and Dylan breaking up with their crazy significant others). Justin Timberlake stars as Dylan, a talented art director who gets recruited to join GQ by Mila Kunis’ Jamie, an outgoing, charismatic head hunter. It really amounts to no more than a smartly cast version of No Strings Attached, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth watching. Yet regardless of the somewhat stale premise, Friends With Benefits is as enjoyable and down-to-earth of a romantic comedy as you’re going to get in theatres these days. Between No Strings Attached, Hall Pass, and Friends With Benefits, it seems relationships are out and emotion-free fornication is in. BOTTOM LINE: Funny, raunchy summer rom-com with a hip cast that the under-25 crowd will love.
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