Dylan and Jamie think it's going to be easy to add the simple act of sex to their friendship, despite what Hollywood romantic comedies would have them believe. They soon discover however that getting physical really does always lead to complications.
Kunis and Timberlake achieve the trickier feat of looking just as happy hanging out as they do sucking face, and when the cliches inevitably come rolling in, they feel earned rather than like a cop-out.
– Alison Willmore,
Time Out New York,
2 Aug 2011
fresh:
Fast-paced and fabulously fake, Friends With Benefits is the Red Bull of romantic comedies, unapologetically delivering a hyperactive, synthetic buzz.
– Logan Hill,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
2 Aug 2011
fresh:
It's one of those rare made-in-Hollywood couplings that transcends the ordinary stuff of movies, like plot and sense and credibility.
– Greg Quill,
Toronto Star,
2 Aug 2011
fresh:
The chemistry between Kunis and her co-star Justin Timberlake is electric.
– Cath Clarke,
Time Out,
7 Sep 2011
rotten:
Anyone who has ever seen a romantic comedy before knows where this one is going.