No Strings Attached is a strange movie. It looked, from the trailers, like it was a guy's take on a chick flick. Actually, sitting down to watch it, yeah, it's a straight up chick flick. Not in the bad, my best girlfriend-is-dying-of-cancer kind of way, but in more of a well-my-boyfriend-is-here-so-lets-make-it-funny way. The premise was great, two friends who decide to be "friends with benefits." One thing leads to another, and VOILA, chick flick. It very quickly became a standard, romantic comedy, taking no chances, and being very vanilla. It was like every other romantic comedy out there trying to rope the opposite sex into the theater with sophomoric jokes. I kind of expect better from the director who gave us Ghostbusters.
Stars Ashton "Mr. Demi Moore" Kutcher and Natalie Portman do the best they can with a mediocre script, but even they can't spice up this one. Kevin Kline has an all-too-small role as Kutcher's philandering father. The scenes with him are the funniest in the movie, but there are not enough. The rest of the cast...meh.
I'd hoped for better, but I guess it wasn't in the cards tonight. Like I said, very vanilla, very ordinary, and not overly funny. There's better out there, find 'em and watch 'em. 6/10.
See you tomorrow, and GO WATCH A MOVIE!!
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