By Bill Wine KYW Newsradio 1060
No strings, we could cope with. It is that there’s no heat, no side, no bite, no level, with no follow-through for this rom-com about intimate dedication that means it is tough to invest in, inspite of the benefit of its leads.
An R-rated comedy that is romantic treats its premise such as the proverbial hot potato, No Strings Attached earns a chuckle or two after which vanishes in to the night without making a lot of an impact.
Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher co-star as doctor-in-training Emma and aspiring television author Adam, now being employed as a manufacturing associate for a musical-comedy television show (think “Glee” or “High School Musical”).
E and A were friends throughout their Los Angeles youth and so they reunited at summer time camp, in university, and once again at the beginning of the careers that are respective.
Then, after circumstances precipitated by Adam’s ex-girlfriend running down together with his former-TV-star dad, played by Kevin Kline, the buds go to sleep one drunken night.
They don’t want to buy to scotch their friendship they will live up to the title of the film by avoiding anything that smacks of an emotionally mature relationship so they make a pledge. Read More