A decent romantic comedy.

Rating: 8/10 (27 December 2011)

This has been a good year for Romantic comedy. In fact, it's the best year since 2009. In 2009, we had the great movie (500) days of Summer and the Sandra Bullock/ Ryan Reynolds rom-com The Proposal, both films that had a nice charm to it. This year, we've had one great(Midnight in Paris), one really good(Crazy Stupid love) and another good one, Friends with Benefits.
I was skeptical about it. Because this story plot has been used twice within a year. First, in 2010's Love and other drugs, a romantic dramady about a guy(Jake Gylenhaal), who works for a pill company, who meets a woman(Anne Hathaway) who has Parkinson's. It wasn't a great movie, but it was a well acted, sweet movie. Then following that, in January, we had No Strings attached, which was okay, but was nothing special. Now we have Friends with benefits, which beats them all.
The film revolves around two people(Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis) who have come to the conclusion that true love in movies is nothing like real life, and for that reason they start to sleep with each other, without dating and without feelings.
FWB is smart for a romantic comedy. It constantly pokes fun at romantic comedies like The Ugly Truth, and gives them justice. If they would've started bashing Woody Allen movies, then we would've had problems. But they don't, just the bad ones. It's smart, maybe not all the way fresh, but funny, and the two have great chemistry and it's fun to watch.
The film had me until the final act. Towards the final act, the film gets serious, which was just not right for this movie. I don't know, it just lost it's touch when it got serious. Even so, it's a very enjoyable romantic comedy none the less.
B+