If you have seen 'No Strings Attached' with Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman that was released earlier in the year, you can't help but enter the cinema instantly looking for comparisons with the similarly plotted 'Friends with Benefits.'

The similarities are there, Mila Kunis, like Natalie Portman looks hot in underwear and semi nude. The story does follow a young urban non-couple as they struggle to keep their friendship while maintaining a physical relationship. There are inevitable Hollywood clichés as the non-couple embark on their journey. it is a romantic comedy with all the formulaic components we have come to expect.

The comparison can stop there. As someone who enjoyed 'No Strings Attached' I sat with baited breath to see how it stacked up and was thrilled that it exceeded expectations and kept me entertained the entire time.

The story follows Dylan, an Art Director (Timberlake) and Jamie, a corporate headhunter (Kunis) as she tries to recruit him for GQ Magazine in New York City. Rather than selling him on the job and opportunity, she chooses instead to sell him on New York City.

In the course of Dylan's recruitment, he and Jamie become friends and it isn't long before they decide that sex is like playing tennis - great with a partner and good to walk away from after the game.

Two key things separate 'Friends with Benefit' and 'No Strings Attached'. The first is the quality of the writing. FWB was clearly ahead of NSA in terms of screenplay - so many great lines and dialogue raised it above many of the other movies in the genré - not just No Strings Attached. The second main difference being the quality of the acting.

Don't get me wrong - in NSA I praised the chemistry between Portman and Kutcher, I loved watching Natalie Portman prance in her underwear but really that was as far as my connection with the characters went.

Mila Kunis excelled as Jamie - to the point where I fell a little in love with her myself. Justin Timberlake, who I've always liked but never loved put on a great performance as Dylan and delivered amazing dialogue brilliantly.

As always with romantic comedies, the real standouts come from the support and FWB was lucky to have Woody Harrelson in a gay sidekickesque role. Harrelson, usually brilliant wasn't quite up to his normal level yet was still a lot of fun to watch.

So combine a very cute and often undressed Mila Kunis (or Justin Timberlake if you're into that sort of thing), Woody Harrelson as a very gay sports editor, great writing, excellent dialogue, fantastic on-screen chemistry and great direction from Will Gluck - who helmed the film with the same flare we saw in 'Easy A' and you have 'Friends with Benefits' - a fun and quirky rom-com that isn't expecting you to have breakfast with it tomorrow.