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It was nominated for two People's Choice Awards-Favorite Comedy Movie, and Favorite Comedic Movie Actress (Kunis)-and two Teen Choice Awards for Timberlake and Kunis.

The film became a commercial success at the box office, grossing $149.5 million worldwide, against a budget of $35 million. Friends with Benefits was generally well received by film critics, most of whom praised the chemistry between the lead actors. Screen Gems distributed the film, which was released in North America on July 22, 2011. Filming began in New York City on July 20, 2010, and concluded in Los Angeles in September 2010. Gluck reworked the original script and plot shortly after casting Timberlake and Kunis. Principal casting for Friends with Benefits took place over a three-month period from April to July 2010. Over time, they begin to develop deep feelings for each other, only to deny it each time they are together. The plot revolves around Dylan Harper (Timberlake) and Jamie Rellis (Kunis), who meet in New York City, and naively believe adding sex to their friendship will not lead to complications. The film features Patricia Clarkson, Jenna Elfman, Bryan Greenberg, Nolan Gould, Richard Jenkins, and Woody Harrelson in supporting roles. The Expendables, The Expendables 2, and The Expendables 3 are now available in Steelbook 4k Ultra HD Blu-ray at Best Buy.Friends with Benefits is a 2011 American romantic comedy film directed by Will Gluck and starring Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis.

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It's a throwback, in the best way, a love letter to a previous era that leans into the 'love.' The films embracing that almost goofy aesthetic pay off in dividends, separating the series from almost anything else in the modern movie landscape. Across three films (and an upcoming fourth one), the series never tries to be anything more than what it is. The Expendables movies firmly know what they are, and they embrace that ridiculous side to great effect. Even the more dramatic moments - like the death of Billy in the second film - that are treated with as much emotional depth as the films ever try to muster come across as motivation instead of tragedy.

Near-death experiences are treated with casual dismissal, wholesale slaughter with a joke. The Expendables follows a similar trajectory, using its knowingly ridiculous elements to poke fun at the conventions of its genre.

Even nominally more dramatic fare like Sisu would insert brief flashes of comedy to introduce some levity into the film. Modern action hits like John Wick: Chapter 4 have used surprising jokes to break the tension amidst its non-stop action. They're far from the only movies to embrace that balance between action and comedy. In fact, the two sides of The Expendables end up impacting and enhancing both sides.

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Their embrace of an almost goofy action aesthetic is a serious plus for the series as a whole and allows it to remain silly and fun even as it tackles some particularly harsh topics. While Stallone took the Rambo franchise to absurd places and faced off with a wild punk Wesley Snipes in Demolition Man, Statham has wowed audiences in the 21st century with the buckwild Crank films and confronted giant sharks in The Meg 2. Both actors have made successful careers of throwing themselves into truly absurd action films. That's the key element to the friendship between Stallone's Barner and Statham's Christmas. The entire series is like that, and it benefits the series as a whole. A potentially dramatic beat of Christmas confronting the woman's abusive partner could have been a dramatic turn in another film, but it's instead an excuse to have Statham beat up a group of morally compromised jerks. Christmas spends much of the first film openly pining after a woman, even though his primary focus should likely be on the intense gun fights he finds himself embroiled in. Even the character beats that are afforded the cast are surface-level and often ridiculous. Instead, the focus is on big fun, above all else. That means there are plenty of surface-level heroics and little in the way of in-depth character development or exploration. That's the benefit of the franchise, as the series is instead a double-fisted love letter to the old standard of the action genre. But the thing is, The Expendables doesn't take it seriously almost at all. The body count in each film alone is nothing to sneeze at, and a film series that took itself more seriously would likely reckon with the aftermath of the heroes gunning down entire scores of people. The films feature characters being waterboarded, innocents being slaughtered and international corruption on a truly staggering scale. In theory, The Expendables should be a horrifying series.

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