It’s a formula that is always going to work and no strings attached is exactly what you would expect from the name.
The film starts when a teenage Adam (Kutcher) meets Emma (Portman) in a summer camp and shares a deep emotional moment before he tries to get in her pants.
And straight away we are shown just how fun the film is going to be.
Fast-forward to the present and Adam is an assistant on a ‘High School Musical meets Glee’ TV show who bumps into Emma, who is now a doctor in training. They finally release all the sexual tension and decide to make it a regular thing. But Emma has some rules, no spooning, no breakfast and nothing that is more than just sex.
As you can guess, it doesn’t go according to plan and feelings start to develop. From then on the film gets very predictable but what makes it work is the script.
Portman shines in the role of a beautiful woman with a foul-mouth and it’s great to see so many of the girls with the funny sex jokes. Scenes including her fellow doctors and housemates are refreshingly funny and shockingly rude at times.
Kutcher is basically playing himself, as always. But he does it well and there is a nice believable chemistry between him and Portman. His two close friends (one played by Ludacris) provide plenty of entertainment and help to keep the film running along smoothly.
The film is based on a celebrated script by Elizabeth Meriweather and it’s easy to see why the script got so much attention. The banter is very Judd Apatow like with snappy, filthy and weird lines being thrown back and forth between all the characters.
It’s nice to see the role reversal with the girl being the stubborn one who doesn’t want a relationship but then again we just saw that in love and other drugs. With another film coming out called ‘Friends with benefits’ starring Justin Timberlake and Portman’s black swan co star Mila Kunis. We’ll see how that compares!
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