No Strings Attached
While waiting to pick up her Oscar, Natalie Portman is already back on the screen with “No Strings Attached”, a comedy for young adults who want scathing in his first game and surprisingly wise afterwards. Everything is a matter of seeing the glass half full or half empty.
Why commit when it is possible to have sex with friends? It discovered that Adam (Ashton Kutcher) and Emma (Natalie Portman). But when the two fall in love, problems are soon to come by.
Ivan Reitman is one of many filmmakers of his era who still manages to make films through the brilliance of his early works. How not want to encourage anyone who has given birth to the hilarious “Ghostbusters”, “Stripes” and other “Meatballs”? Since its very good “Dave” in 1993 he seemed to have lost the key.
A long desert road punctuated by the uninspiring “Junior”, “Father’s Day”, “Six Days, Seven Nights”, “Evolution” and “My Super Ex-Girlfriend”. Here again the hair of the beast. Perhaps it is his son Jason, who encourages with its popular “Juno” and “Up in the Air”.
Meanwhile dad just gave birth to his most satisfying project for 18 years. A comedy in “Superbad” who speaks openly about sex and desire. Dialogues often tasty, funny situations and characters are almost irresistible to mention the predictability of the history and achievement that do not break anything.
Especially since the actors take perverse pleasure in throwing the ball. Radically changing the registry after the magnificent “Black Swan”, Natalie Portman is known to be both sexy and funny, doing a single bite of the poor Ashton Kutcher just does not cut it. Within beings perfectly typed appears too rare Kevin Kline seems to be the lucky charm of Reitman, having just been run under him in “Dave”.
What had to happen eventually get through yet. The politically incorrect story suddenly becomes conservative and totally harmless. The heroes discover that one should not mix friendship and love, and need much less sleep with his best friend. Instead of thoroughly address this issue little discussed in the cinema, it provides the scenario for the exit door, ending in the syrup moralizing expected.
At least “No Strings Attached” is much more bearable than the recent and similar “Love and Other Drugs” and “Going the Distance”. Without being cute, romance is in good spirits, and there are sufficient replicas successful for a pleasant time.
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