Make Money Online - No Scams! with Fusion Cash

Free Money Online - No Scams! with Fusion Cash!

There are so many sites that claim that with them, you can make hundreds of dollars a day! Just sign up, send them $50 and they'll have you on your way to being a millionaire in no time.

Wait, that sounds like a scam, right? Right. You should never pay to make money online. If the site is legitimate, it will pay you for your time and efforts. And no way is any regular Joe (or Jolene) going to be raking in hundreds of bucks a day playing online, that's just not going to happen. However, there are several excellent online survey and reward sites that will pay you for your efforts, even if it takes a while to get enough dough saved up to cash out.

Earlier this month I wrote about the Best Survey Rewards Sites, and I listed a few of my favorites and detailed why they're my favorites. I decided to feature a site every week with awesome detail as to how it's run, in what ways money can be made, ways to receive one's money and more. This week, I'm writing about Fusion Cash, a site I just discovered that I'm already excited about. 

Fusion Cash is a site my husband actually stumbled across, and emailed me a link to check out. It wasn't quite what it advertized itself as being, though. Here's the ad I read for it: This ad right here!

Like other sites, Fusion Cash notes that you'll be able to set your own hours and determine how much money you would like to earn per day. It also notes that you will get paid anywhere from .50 cents to $25.00 per form, and that payment is made monthly via check or PayPal.com.

So I signed up. I'm already a member of about thirty sites to help me make money online, so I figured that one more couldn't hurt. Right away after clicking this link ->  Click Me!!! :) I was taken to the site and began to claim my $5 free cash. In order to do that, I had to confirm my email address, input a mailing address and a PayPay address (since I want to receive my money via PayPal. If you don't, just don't fill in that info). After that, I began to explore the site a bit to get a feel for how it's set up and how to make the moolah. 

Right away, it reminded me of SwagBucks, especially with how it's set up. While one can take surveys to make their money, there are also offers that they can (and must) complete in order to cash out. 

Cashing out may be done when one's total reaches $25.00, but it is important to note that $15.00 of those dollars must come from completed offers. However, there are many offers that don't cost anything to complete. I have coupons sent to my inbox from Kellogg, and that helped to bump me up $2.00, a decent chunk on my way to the $15.00. 

There are trial offers as well, such as a one month free trial of NetFlix, which rewards users with $8.00, signing up for GameFly gets you $10.00 back, and so on. Surveys may be completed for varying amounts of cash, and even posting in the forums gets you an additional #3.00 a month. This site also offers a great referral program which works like this:

• Refer a friend who confirms his/her email address: $1 bonus
• Your friend completes his/her first offer: $2 bonus
• Your friend cashes out: $5 bonus (each and every time they cash out - for life)

That's a pretty sweet deal. In fact, in reviewing this site, I'm hoping that a few of you lovely readers will sign up for it as well, using the many links to Fusion Cash (<- like this one) that I've posted throughout the blog when referencing the site directly. That way, I'll get the referral credits and you'll have access to new ways to make money online, completely free!

I estimate that at the rate I've been completing offers and such, that I'll be able to cash out my $25 in a few days. How soon can you cash out your $25.00?

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The Best Facebook Free Online Slots

Lately I've been seeing a lot of billboards in my area featuring images of miserable-looking men, women, and teens, all reading something along the lines of "How do I tell my family that I gambled it all away?"

The economy sucks, and while it might seem like a good idea in a moment of desperation to risk all of one's money on a chance to "win big," there's probably not a dumber thing you could do, besides jumping out in front of a moving train, or shooting yourself in the leg to see if it will hurt.

Some people aren't in it to "win big," though, some people just like the fun of playing. For those people, I present to you the best of Facebook Slots; free slot machines that are easily accessible from your home computer via Facebook Apps. Some are better than others, and some are just plain awful, but regardless, here are the top three:

#1 - Slotomania - Slot Machines

My personal favorite. Slotomania - Slot Machines currently has twenty (20) different slot machines, each with a different theme. Themes include "Go Bingo," "Vikings," "Creep Fortunes," "Cat Chef," and more. The graphics are more than excellent, and the music and sounds that go with each machine are unique and fun. Bet amounts increase as you "level up" on the game. This is done by gaining XP (experience points) through betting. The higher you bet, the faster you level up. The more you level up, the more games you have access to, and your four-hour bonus goes up at certain levels. This game may be played in a regular viewing version or else in "full screen mode."

Slotomania allows players to collect free coins with which to play every four hours. Coins may also be gained though receiving gifts from friends. You may send and receive either coins or free spins. Free spins count towards your XP and also help you to level up. Obviously, coins may also be purchased by using Facebook Credits. Slotomania coins are priced as follows:

$5    -      5,000 coins
$10  -     12,000 coins
$20  -     30,000 coins
$50   -    120,000 coins
$100  -   300,000 coins
$200  -   800,000 coins

Slotomania often runs promotions for coins when they release new games. During these promotions, coin packages may be purchased with up to 40% free coins added in at no additional charge.

I love Slotomania, but it's very difficult to move up without purchasing coins. I am currently at level 139, and it took me 116,720,000 points to get to that level. That means that I've had to bet a grand total of $116,720,000 to get there. My free coin bonus every four hours is currently $7,000, and I have hundreds of friends that play the game that send me free gifts as I send them the same.

Customer service for this game is despicable, though. The developers of the app can be easily contacted through their Facebook page, but rarely reply to complaints, even though they may be valid. Though they acknowledge that there are plenty of problems with they game, the problems seem to keep making it into newly released games, so it seems that the developers don't really mind that people are having coins deducted from their accounts, missing gifts from their friends, or being charged double for coin packages.

Despite the problems with contacting the developers, though, I'd say that Slotomania - Slot Machines are still the best slots on Facebook. With over 5,000,000 monthly users, it's definitely one of the popular and most played slot games on the site!

#2 - Jackpotjoy Slot Machines

Jackpotjoy Slot Machines are my second favorite, simply because the games are fun. There are fifteen (15) games to choose from with this app, and, like Slotomania, they can be unlocked at certain levels as you gain XP. These games include themes such as "Tiki Island," "Fun of the Fair," "Winstones," "Reel Wild West," and more. The graphics are really good on this slot app, too, though not quite as good as on Slotomania. Bonuses are hard to come by on Jackpotjoy Slot Machines, and coins are hard to build up without buying them. Having plenty of friends who play and are willing to send you coins is useful, because the four-hour bonuses for this game are also fairly low. I'm currently at level 84 (Jackpot Master) and only receive $7,000 per every four hours, though I get $200 a day from almost all of my friends.

I've never had any issues with this game that would require me to contact the developers/customer service for this app. I've never heard any complaints from any of my 700+ friends who play this game, either. While it may be difficult to do very well on these slots, it's still fun to play them.

Jackpotjoy Slot Machines also has a fairly unique feature that's lacking in other slot apps on Facebook...a chat option. Once players access the game in "full screen mode," they are able to chat with all other current players. This chat runs on the right side of one's screen, and every so often, a "mini-game" will pop up in the chat feed, allowing players to try to win a few extra coins to play with. The chat offers a sense of comradery as well as a way for players to make new friends.

Coins may be through collecting the four-hour bonuses, receiving gifts from friends, or by purchasing coin packages using Facebook Credits. Coin prices for Jackpotjoy Slot Machines are as follows:

$5    -      5,000 coins
$10  -     15,000 coins
$20  -     50,000 coins
$50   -    150,000 coins
$100  -   400,000 coins
$200  -   1,000,000 coins

So Jackpotjoy Slot Machines' coins are a bit cheaper than the coins for Slotomania - Slot Machine, though not by much unless you're spending more than $50 on Facebook credits.

This is my second-favorite Facebook slot app. It has more features than Slotomania, and the coin packages offer more for your money, but they don't have as many games to play, and the graphics and music aren't quite as good. Still, it's a free game that's worth playing!

#3 - DoubleDown Casino

DoubleDown Casino offers more than slots, it also offers Blackjack and Poker. With 3,500,000 monthly active users, it's one of the most popular slot apps on Facebook. One of the unique features of this app is that it allows players to play in Tournaments. Slot machines are available for Tournament play for varying entry fees, and with varying rewards. I love the Tournaments for this app, and I generally win or place in about one of six Tournaments I play.

The graphics for this game are so-so (nothing special, but nothing terrible), and the sounds are a bit repetitive, but the music can easily be muted for the game. Unlike Slotomania or Jackpotjoy Slots, DoubleDown Casino only allows you to collect your free gifts once a day. Upon opening the app, players are rewarded with free coins for returning multiple days in a row, for having several friends who also play, and then get a free spin on the "gift wheel" for even more coins. For me, this generally amounts to about $70,000 free coins a day. Afterwards, players may collect three free spins on the "gift wheel" from friends. Amounts on this wheel range from 5,000 coins to 5 million coins, and even include options like "spin again" and "gold coins." Gold coins may be used to buy entries into drawings for more coins with which to play the game. Drawings are held once a month, and though I've never won, it sure would be nice to, since amounts are over 21,000,000 coins sometimes!

Similar to the other slots, XP is gained based on amount of play and how much is bet, but I'm not really sure what it does. All games are accessible from the very first time one plays, so there's no "unlocking" necessary like there is on other slot apps. I'm currently at level 15, but still am unsure what the point of it is.

Coins may only be collected through the "gift wheel," or by purchasing coin packages using Facebook Credits. Coin prices for DoubleDown Casino are as follows:

$3    -    150,000 coins
$8  -      750,000 coins
$18  -    2,500,000 coins
$39   -  12,000,000 coins
$59  -   35,000,000 coins
$99  -   100,000,000 coins

This app has THE best prices for their coin packages. While $200 will get players about a million chips in Slotomania or Jackpotjoy Slots, Doubledown Casino will give a hundred times that for half the price! Not a bad deal! This is that app where coins last the longest and where the games are a bit more exciting. I still enjoy Slotomania best because of the sheer number of fun games with great graphics and sound, and Jackpotjoy Slots second because of the chat option with the mini-games, but DoubleDown Slots are the best for the Tournaments!

So those were the top three Facebook Slot Apps. Still want more? Maybe you've tried those and you're unimpressed? Here are the others I play:

#4 - Royal Slots
#5 - Slots Farm - Slot Machines
#6 - 3D Slots
#7 - House of Fun - Slot Machines
#8 - Slot Machine Tournaments
#9 - ClickFun Casino
#10 - CasinoZone

Farouk Chi Ceramic Flat Iron Original Model Review

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The Farouk Chi Ceramic Flat Iron Original Model is a decent size as far as the body of the iron goes. The Straightener has ceramic plates that are one inch in length, which is a decent size for straightening thick strips of hair. Because the Farouk Chi Ceramic Flat Iron Original Model has a ceramic plate Straightener, the ceramic plate is heated up by internal coils, which requires thirty-five watts of electricity and reaches a consistent three-hundred and seventy degrees when it is turned on. The ceramic plate heats up very quickly, in less than five seconds, and will burn flesh if it is touched. Therefore, DO NOT touch the ceramic plates!

Turing on the Farouk Chi Ceramic Flat Iron Original Model is simple, there is a very obvious on/off switch that, when turned on, causes a light on the Flat Iron to glow red. The Farouk Chi Ceramic Flat Iron Original Model is heavier than other Flat Irons or Straighteners that I have owned, weighting in at about two pounds. The cord for this Flat Iron is great though, reaching a full ten feet, more than double what my last Straightener could stretch to.

My last few hair Straighteners have only lasted me about a year each. Luckily for me then, the Farouk Chi Ceramic Flat Iron Original Model comes with a One-Year-Warranty, which means that, should anything happen to it; I can have it replaced within that first year. However, with how much better the Farouk Chi Ceramic Flat Iron Original Model is working compared to my other hair Straighteners, I don’t imagine that I will need it to be replaced within the first year I have it.

Every time that I have used the Farouk Chi Ceramic Flat Iron Original Model to straighten my hair, my hair has come out completely straight! I can’t say that the Farouk Chi Ceramic Flat Iron Original Model doesn’t damage my hair when I use it, because I’m sure that it does as it gets so hot, but my hair definitely doesn’t feel as dry and brittle after using it as it did after using the other, store-bought models that I had used before. This probably has something to do with the fact that the Farouk Chi Ceramic Flat Iron Original Model uses ceramic plates as opposed to the copper plates that I am used to.

Straightening my hair with the Farouk Chi Ceramic Flat Iron Original Model is a lot faster than it was with other models. My hair is about shoulder-length, very thick, and moderately wavy. With other models that I have used, it took me about forty-five minutes to straighten my hair, and I had to go over each section of hair several times. With the Farouk Chi Ceramic Flat Iron Original Model, I can straighten my hair in about fifteen minutes, and I generally only have to go over each section of hair once, maybe twice depending on the thickness of it.

I definitely recommend the Farouk Chi Ceramic Flat Iron Original Model. My hair has never been as straight as it is with this hair Straightener. I know that this product is expensive, but I recommend it anyway. This is the perfect hair Straightener for women with thick, wavy hair that other flat irons just won’t or cannot tame!

Apple iPad (32 GB) Wi-Fi (MB293LL/A) Tablet PC Review

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So what exactly is an iPad?

It surprised me to learn that most people think that the iPad is a computer, when it is, in fact, not one. Rather, the iPad is much more like the iPhone; even more so like the iPod Touch. Actual computers run on operating systems, such as versions of Windows; the iPad does not. Also, the iPad does not have any drives (CD, DVD, etc.), nor does it have ports, such as USB. Therefore, it is not a computer. For those who do not know what an iPod Touch is, it is essentially a storage device for things such as movies, videos, music, digital photographs, memos, and more, as well as a handy way to browse the internet. For all intents and purposes, the iPad is an enlarged version of the iPod Touch.

Like the iPod Touch, the majority of what one is able to do with the device greatly relies upon the applications that one chooses to download to their iPad. One of the more popular options here seems to be to use the iPad as an electronic book (often complete with pictures).

Essentially, the iPad really is a pad. Upon opening up the box that the product comes in, one will see a 9.7 inch, one-and-a-half pound LCD screen encased in a chic, black frame. The iPad is incredibly sleek and smooth; there are not buttons, ports, etcetera on the device that would categorize it as anything but stylish. Along with the iPad come a wall-power charger, USB dock cable, and a very basic instruction manual.

The iPad I'm reviewing is one of the 3G iPads, as opposed to the Wi-Fi variation. While the Wi-Fi version only connects to the internet when one is within Wi-Fi range (many restaurants, bookstores, etc have Wi-Fi connections) or else has a wireless router within their home that they may easily connect to, the 3G version does that and more. The 3G version allows one to purchase wireless 3G web-time from AT&T, the prices for which vary from between about fifteen dollars a month to roughly thirty bucks a month. Additionally, the 3G models can be purchased in terms of their memory capacity. These come in blocks of either sixteen gigs, thirty-two gigs, or sixty-four gigs.

While the iPad does allow users to download tons of applications to their iPads, the iPad itself really doesn’t come with a lot of applications other than the basics (these are the ones that devices such as the iPod Touch comes with). There are iPod applications for things such as music, email, photography, etcetera, as well as there is a Safari web browser, address book, notepad, calculator, calendar, maps, youtube, and more. Some easy to download applications are free, other services may have fees.


Why is the iPad for you?

The iPad is lightweight, sleek, stylish, and large enough to work with, but small enough to be absolutely convenient. The iPad is NOT a computer, and therefore it does not run on an operating system. Additionally, the touch-screen technology is fun and versatile, making using the iPad an interesting and stimulating experience each and every time.

New levels of convenience.

Touch-screen technology really is incredible. Using one’s fingers, with the lightest touch, one may use the iPad to turn pages through novels, scroll through pages on the internet, play symphonies, type up reports, watch videos, and more.


Reading made easy (or at least more convenient).

iBooks is becoming quite the rage these days. I never really thought that reading an actual book was that difficult or even too time-consuming, but I suppose that with the birth of audio-books, something like this would eventually come along. Instead of having to carry around a big, thick, heavy book, with the iPad and the iBooks application, all one need do is to download the application and virtually any and every book that one could possibly need or want to read is literally right at their fingertips!


Battery Life

Apple states that the iPad battery ought to get around ten hours of battery use per charge (nine hours if you use the 3G cellular version), and up to thirty days in standby mode. I have found this to be mostly accurate, or else I have noticed that the battery actually lasts a few minutes to an hour longer than I expected!


So what do I think?

Despite the fact that the iPad is so remarkably similar to the iPod Touch, they really are two completely different devices. In this case, size truly does matter, and in this instance, bigger IS better. While the iPod Touch may be just a smaller version of the iPad, it is also an inferior version. The iPad’s screen is far larger than that of the iPod Touch, which makes it much easier to use in almost every instance. The larger screen is similar in size to that of a small laptop’s, allowing consumers to watch videos, navigate the internet, and even to type (mostly!) accurately on the screen. The iPad is a very sensitive, exciting tool that everyone should own. This is a direct link to the rest of the world (through the internet, of course) as well as a way to jot down thoughts, keep track of time, dates, etc, make calculations, listen to orchestras, watch movies, and more!

Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans Are A Great Novelty Item, But Not Much Else!

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As a fan of all things from the Harry Potter universe, I knew pretty much right away in reading the books that Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans were a product that would hit the markets of the real (Muggle) world within record time of the books being printed. Naturally, being a woman, I was right, and within a month of their literal creation, every Harry Potter fan with expendable finances was enjoying, or, more accurately, NOT enjoying these multi-flavored, but generally disgusting, little colored jelly beans.

In the books, according to the Harry Potter universe, Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans are, in our, the real, world, similar to Jelly Belly, in that they truly taste the way that they say that they do. A great example from the book is that a main character pops a tan-colored Bean into his mouth, expecting it to be toffee-flavored, and instead discovers it to be, most regrettably, earwax-flavored instead. Naturally, the fans of Harry Potter, myself included, were delighted to see these little Beans available for us Muggles to try, and we were excited to partake in the edible adventure that was brought to us from the world of the books that we so adored.

Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans come in a dark-blue, cloth bag, which, on the front of it, in quite bold coloring, bears the name of the product, along with a depiction of the Beans within the bag. The bag itself may be sealed by being drawn up and closed by means of the bright yellow drawstring at the top of it. Attached to this drawstring is a flavor guide, a small, glossy, folded square of paper that completely ruins the whole adventure that is popping small candies in your mouth and risking that the flavor may be that of grass instead of green apple. While it should be noted that the bags of Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans are randomly assorted and may not contain every flavor, of the many bags that I have had purchased for me, I have not yet come across a single bag that does not include all twenty assorted flavors. These flavors, each of which has their own distinctive coloring and/or markings, include pear, banana, pizza, blueberry, sausage, lemon, ketchup, marshmallow, cinnamon, pink grapefruit, mashed potatoes, cheese, peach, cranberry & apple, gravy, fish, pepper, onions, watermelon, and wild cherry. Predictably, for flavors such as pink grapefruit, the beans are colored pink, for the pepper-flavored beans, the coloring is black, and so on and so forth.

The makers of these beans were quite successful in their efforts to make each bean taste incredibly like what it is intended to be flavored as. The lemon-flavored Beans, for example, not only taste remarkably like lemon, but also smell of it as well! The cheese-flavored Beans also taste of cheese, but not of a delicious sharp Cheddar or Gouda, but rather of a processed, American cheese (blech!). The cranberry & apple Beans are also delectable as well as accurate in their flavoring in so much as that one can easily pick out both of the flavors within the single red Bean!

Ingredients for the product include sugar, wheat syrup, water, modified food starch, contains 2% or less of the following: natural and artificial flavors, citric acid, trisodium citrate, fumaric acid, artificial colors (FD&C Blue 1 Lake, Blue 2 Lake, Yellow 5 Lake, Yellow 6 Lake, Red 40 Lake), Caramel coloring, titanium dioxide, carmine, beeswax, confectioner’s glaze, and carnauba wax.

Nutrition facts for the product state that the serving size is one-half of the package of Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans (42.5g), and that there are 160 calories per serving.
Additionally, there are;
0g total fat,
0g trans fat,
10mg sodium,
40g total carbohydrates,
33g sugars, &
0g protein.


Also, rather unfortunately for most Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans buyers, about half of the beans within the bag will go to waste. While the whole idea is an interesting one to be sure, and while trying to enjoy these flavored Beans may be a great novelty at first, after a few bits of fish, ketchup, and onion-flavored Beans, consumers will pick out the “normal” flavored Beans and toss the rest. I know that’s what I did! These are fun to try at least once, and I do recommend that every Harry Potter fan do just that, but anything more than one purchase of these beans is just a waste of money. Until the company that makes them begins to add more normal, interesting flavors to the mix, I won’t be buying them again any time soon.

Super 8 Isn't Really That Super

Super 8


My Husband was more eager to see “Super 8” than I was, but I still went with him to see it on the big screen last night. He’s a big fan of J.J. Abrams (who wrote and directed this film) and Steven Spielberg (the Executive Producer), and while I’ve nothing against them, I don’t tend to go to see movies unless the previews looked really good, and I didn’t think that the trailer for “Super 8” was really all that fantastic. Well, we went to see the film anyway, and it wasn’t as bad as I expected.

This film is primarily about Joe Lamb, who lives in Lillian, Ohio. The movie opens with Joe sitting on a swing outside of his house in the cold daylight of winter. Inside the house are many dressed-up people from the town discussing the horrible accident that Joe’s mother was just in which took her life. Many express their concerns to one another about whether Joe’s father, police Deputy Lamb, will be able to take care of Joe on his own; he’s never had to be much of a father before, they state.

Joe’s friends, all middle-school age like Joe, aren’t very good at expressing their condolences for Joe’s loss, and instead focus on continuing to work on making their zombie movie for the Ohio “Super 8” Film Festival. Charles, the ring-leader of the group of friends, is the director and writer of the film they’re working on, entitled, “The Case.” Charles is bossy and highly unlikable, but he and Joe have been friends since Kindergarten, so Joe seems unable to see that Charles is a pretty big douche. Charles decides that at midnight after the wake for Joe’s mother, that all of them will sneak out to the local train-station and work on the film a bit more. So they do.

At midnight, the group of boys all meet up and are picked up by the “cool girl,” Alice, who is too young to be driving, but who stole her father’s car in order to do so. The lot of them head over to the train station and begin preparing to shoot the film. Charles gets quite excited when, in the middle of the rehearsal, a train begins to go by the station. “Production value,” he shouts, and everyone rushes to put film in the camera, get costumes on, and get into place in order to shoot the film with a real train going by in the background. As the train begins to rush past them, only Joe notices the white truck that’s traveling down the tracks in order to meet the train head-on. He barely has time to shout a warning before the truck and the train collide in an explosive crash, derailing the train and causing many of the train cars to shoot into the air. Absolute chaos reins and the boys and Alice run for their lives, barely able to dodge the hail of fire, metal and anything else that’s raining down from the explosions.

Joe is the first one we see after all begins to calm, and he is staring at a train car that’s making an awful lot of noise. Something within the car is slamming around, trying to get out. Unfortunately, there’s no time for the boys to investigate because the military begins to arrive and they have to get out of there before they’re noticed. Joe has just enough time to grab a strange, white block from the wreckage to take with him before he and his friends jump back into the stolen car and speed away, barely escaping before the military’s arrival.

After the train wreck, some weird things start to happen. The military begins to occupy the town. Dogs begin to go missing. Car engines, microwaves, electrical wires and other electrical things are disappearing. People start disappearing. The town of Lillian, Ohio is out of power for days. It becomes clear that whatever was inside the train car got out, and it doesn’t seem as though anyone knows what it is or how to stop it.


When this movie began, I started to get into it. The scene with the train/truck collision was awesome, probably one of the best crash scenes I’ve ever witnessed on the big screen. After that point, though, I really lost most of my interest in the film. It took forever for anything interesting to happen after that, and when it did, it was pretty suck-tastic. The acting was all fantastic and the special effects were great, but the plot sucked. If it weren’t for the occasional bits of comic relief in the film, I would probably have walked out. I didn’t really care what happened after a certain point, because there wasn’t much to care about, so I was pretty much just waiting (in vain) for the next big thing to happen.

I don’t think that I have any interest in ever seeing this movie again, and I don’t think it was worth it to see it in the theater.

Best part: Train/truck collision
Worst part: Plot

Let's Be Friends...With Benefits! ;)

Friends With Benefits


Normally I can't really get into Romantic Comedies. There's just something about the two genres mixing that's a huge turnoff to me. Sure, I love comedies, and yeah, I can enjoy a good romantic drama, but the mixing of the two usually ends with predictable plot "twists," a near-complete lack of character development, and humour that's not really funny.

However, "Friends with Benefits" was fantastic. Starring Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis, "Friends with Benefits" is a movie about a corporate head-hunter, Jamie (Kunis) and the man she's recruiting to work for GQ Magazine, Dylan (Timberlake). The movie begins with Jamie and Dylan both being dumped by their respective partners, Dylan in Los Angeles, and Jamie in NYC. Both vow to avoid the emotional complications of relationships, Jamie because she is apparently "emotionally damaged," and Dylan because his ex called him "emotionally unavailable." So, when Jamie and Dylan meet, they're not looking for a relationship, and instead end up in a non-relationship where they only have sex.

As the friends with benefits situation goes on, Jamie and Dylan realize that it's actually working out for them, and that they've become close friends despite their promise to keep emotion out of the equation. As the movie goes on, both need to figure out if what they truly want is a sex filled, emotionless relationship, a partnership, or no relationship at all.

This movie was so fracking funny. Beginning to end, everyone in the theater was laughing. The characters in the movie openly mocked the terrible, predictable plot "twists" of Romantic Comedies, with Timberlake's character making a hilarious point of mocking the cheesy music that goes with Romantic Comedies. When things are going well between him and Jamie, he "bah-bum-bah"'s in an upbeat tempo, and vise-versa when things are getting tricky.

With the "R" rating, this film freely uses the word "fuck," though pretty much always for humour. The cast was great and the flow of the film was amazing. I truly enjoyed it, beginning to end, and didn't once wonder how much longer the movie was going to take.

I'm definitely buying this movie when it comes out on DVD/BluRay, and I recommend checking it out yourself once it hits the theaters. I saw this movie via a free public screening, but I'll probably go to see it in theaters again once it comes out. :)