Friends With Benefits: The Movie

I saw this movie today Saturday with my wife and loved it. It has a very raw kind of Saturday Night  Live (SNL) feel to it, and yet, she still somewhere believes in Love in the end. They both have issues, his Mom abandoned his Dad and sister and he 10 years before and now his Dad has Alzheimers out in Los Angeles (likely Malibu). She is a head hunter (finding good people to hire for specialized jobs) in New York and head hunts Justin Timberlake from his job in Los Angeles for a job in New York. That's the set-up and both just broke up with their significant others and so both are emotionally crushed when they meet. And we take it up from there if we see the movie.

Though I thought this might just be a repeat of the movie Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman just made I was wrong. If you can stand a lot of sexual, physical and verbal humor without blanching, this is a very honest movie about how relationships actually work sometimes. It was funny and intense and touching all at different points. I found it to be a very satisfying movie where two people have been hurt by losing their other sex parent (she never met her real dad and he was abandoned by his mother). And because of this they understand each other and as no one else likely ever could or would.