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Blu-ray Review: Justin Timberlake, Mila Kunis Elevate ‘Friends With Benefits’
Chicago – There’s a spirit and energy in Will Gluck’s “Friends With Benefits” that’s infectious enough to get it over some of its screenwriting humps. It’s a film that features two beautiful people dancing to a Michael Buble flash mob in the middle of Times Square. If those beautiful people were Josh Duhamel and Katherine Heigl, most critics would have audibly retched. But Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis are so remarkably charismatic that they make the cliches of “Friends With Benefits,” recently released on Blu-ray and DVD, much easier to take.

Blu-Ray Rating: 3.5/5.0

In fact, it’s just as often the fight against the cliches of the genre that are the screenplay’s biggest weakness. Like Gluck’s “Easy A,” a lot of “Fwb” comes off Way too self-aware, as if it’s winking and nodding at you — “Aren’t we sexy? Aren’t we funny? Aren’t we clever?...
See full article at HollywoodChicago.com
  • 1/5/2012
  • by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
  • HollywoodChicago.com

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