I like Friends With Benefits way too much.
I actually think the 1st 2/3 are pretty good. It kind of derails at the end when it gets too sentimental and typical rom-com-ish
Friends with Kids....If this had come out 2 years ago, had the same plot, most of the same dialogue, but was directed by Apatow and had some of his people as the leads, with some funnier, raunchier jokes thrown in, this would've been the natural middle step between Knocked Up and This Is 40.
It's about 3 couples, 2 with kids and one failed one without.
One is a mainstream movie lead couple, Jon Hamm and Kristen Wiig.
One is an indie lead couple, Maya Rudolph and Chris O'Dowd.
And one is our lead couple Adam Scott and whoever the **** thinks she's funny.
Adam Scott and that lady could pull off playing the leads on a failed NBC sitcom, but that's about it and that's a problem.
The problem.
My problem with the movie. It's basically a 'destined to be cancelled in 6 episodes' NBC show squeezed into 90 minutes with nicer cameras and sets.
And like any cancelled in 6 episodes NBC sitcom, the first 2 episodes don't really know what they wanna be. It's in the...we have this stuff we wrote...then the people we could find, but aren't sure how to marry them in way people would want to watch. They awkwardly force the premise out there, rush through introducing people, and show some promise, but in a too quirky and insider to succeed way. Some of the jokes work, but you can feel it that they ain't got it, yet.
The middle two episodes, they sorta throw the premise away, let the side/best characters take over and they kinda get in a groove. You can see how this show deserves a shot. You're right before the point where you might put your friends onto it, because it's so particular that you know someone must absolutely love it. You're rooting for this cast and this little 'only 20 people are ever really gonna get this' show that could.
Then the last two episodes, you just think yup...that was fine for what it was, but just not good enough. It was too inside jokey and had no real stars in it. It's a good, sweet movie, that's a lot more emotionally thoughtful than it is funny. But it's not something I think I could recommend to almost anyone and I forgot I even saw it til right now, but it happened. It
did happen. I wrote this as proof? I think? I don't even know. 3/4
At least Happy Endings got more than one season.
never had seen her in anything but she was looking right. And of course Bello got naked. 
