The Vidiot Reviews...

Rating: 5/10 (1 December 2011)

Friends with Benefits
The best thing about engaging in a solely sexual relationship with a friend is that you can tell them when the sex sucks.
Fortunately, the boot-knocking between the buddies in this rom-com is the least of their worries.
Headhunted by GQ magazine, art director Dylan (Justin Timberlake) moves to New York with a little coaxing from the recruiter Jamie (Mila Kunis).
Ultimately accepting the position, Dylan and Jamie begin hanging out.
One night, after eviscerating the structure of romantic comedies, the pair decides to venture into a physical relationship void of emotional attachments.
Inevitably their experiment fails, and Jamie returns to the dating scene. But a chance weekend away finds the two connecting on a new emotional level.
Attempting to be a smart-alecky dissertation of courting, Friends with Benefits hypocritically treads the same predictable path it expostulates.
Besides, cuddling after sex is way more gratifying than giving each other noogies. (Yellow Light)