Now where have we heard of a plot like this? Two singletons who vow to have meaningless sex, but then it does start to have a meaning and well, you can guess the rest, let’s be honest here.
The acting is perfectly fine, no doubt better from Mila Kunis, who plays Jamie, rather than singer-turned actor, Justin Timberlake, who plays Dylan, although he is not totally unbearable. It has to be said that the on-screen chemistry between the pair is obvious, which makes the whole thing slightly more tolerable and more exciting than ‘No Strings Attached’. Slightly.
Jamie is a headhunter who is based in the busy New York who has been given the task of luring in Dylan into taking the job of art director at GQ, rather than staying at his small internet company based in L.A. Oh and guess what, they immediately hit it off. The characters first meet at the airport where Jamie has been given the task of picking him up, which is where we get a first glimpse of Jamie’s scatty, and i assume they wanted humourous in there too, behaviour. We also see a nice homage to Will Gluck’s ‘Easy A’ with someone holding the sign ‘O. Penderghast.’
Throughout the film, they take sly digs at the cinematic conventions of romantic films, which made me let out a heavy sigh when, guess what, they adopt said formula. Not that the entire film didn’t make me let out a heavy sigh.
Quipped with a few witty one liners, the light heartedness takes a slight turn when Dylan asks Jamie to visit his home in L.A. to meet his family, which includes his Alzheimer’s suffering father. However during the trip to L.A. there is one laugh out loud bit involving the Hollywood sign and Dylan, but if you see the adverts for the film enough times, it will have probably worn off on you by the time it comes to that scene. This trip also includes a guessable ‘oh no she overheard so and so slating her’ after she thought such and such, therefore cue girl leaving. Yawn. Oh, and then guess what, there’s a misunderstanding that takes up too long of the film, albeit it’s probably one of the main points of the film. I say again, yawn.
I’m sure you can guess the ending. However, I did enjoy the way they did this and it did manage to raise a smile.
Sorry if you think I’ve spoilt the film for you, but I didn’t think the plot could get anymore guessable. I hope the writer’s didn’t expect their audience to be surprised with the ending. Or maybe they were going for irony.
