FWB

saturday night we went to see 'friends with benefits' which, if you set aside the completely predictable plot, is a very good movie. much of the writing is hilariously funny, with a plethora of unique phrases scattered throughout. i'll just say "strickally-dickally" for now, and you go see the movie and tell me that doesn't Crack You Up. dialog that isn't completely fall-out-of-your-seat hilarious hits fairly close to the reality bullseye.

justin timberlake and mila kunis are the leads, but the supporting cast is littered with stars -- patricia clarkson, jenna elfman, woody harrelson, richard jenkins, andy samberg. i thought andy samberg was that guy from the facebook movie. ha! shaun white as himself is exceptional, completely mad, a lunatic. jason segel and rashida jones star in a movie-within-the-movie that just piles on the guffaws. (okay, that sounds stupid, but i was tired of saying hilarious! hilarious! hilarious! oh, go jump off a thesaurus, why don't ya?!)

there's another movie with a similar plot - 'no strings attached'. NSA was originally called 'friends with benefits' but even though it came out first, the producers renamed it. NSA came out in january of 2011 and FWB came out in july. NSA stars natalie portman and FWB stars mila kunis and both were in 'black swan' and although i have not see BS, i know enough about it to know that mila in FWB definitely black-swanned natalie's NSA.