Emotionally detached couple make for emotionally detached rom-com

Rating: 6/10 (20 September 2013)

Jamie (Mila Kunis) and Dylan (Justin Timberlake) are both successful professionals, but they just find true love. In frustration, they turn their friendship into friends with benefits.
This is built as the anti-rom-com. In fact there is a fake rom-com in this movie where they point out all the movie clichés that they won't fall for. There's just something unlikeable about an anti-rom-com. There's a reason why formula rom-com has been successful for so long. The fact that both Jamie and Dylan try so hard to be detached emotionally makes this story emotionally detached. They just don't have the chemistry required. There are some pretty funny moments. Patricia Clarkson plays Jamie's inappropriate mother Lorna. She has some fun exchanges with the couple.