No Strings Attached
2011 Directed by Ivan Reitman
Synopsis
Friendship has its benefits.
Emma is a busy doctor who sets up a seemingly perfect arrangement when she offers her best friend Adam a relationship with one rule: No strings attached. But when a fling becomes a thing, can sex friends stay best friends?
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Made my shriveled old heart beat again.
Once.
I frickin' hate Valentine's Day.
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Yeah yeah yeah, I know. Most people hate this but I really like it. The first time I saw this I felt the same way and went out and bought this the next day. On certain occasions I'm a sucker for a cheesy rom-com.......and I'm lactose intolerant. Weird.
This came out around the same time as JT and Mila Kunis's Friends With Benefits and they're very much the same but very different as well. To be honest, I kept waiting for things to happen in this that I later realized were in FWB. How are they different? This is way funnier and Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher are much better than Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake.
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Thanks to my friend Sacha I now realize that the pitch for this film was something like: romcom but role reversed! girl wants meaningless sex! Ashton Kutcher pines for true love, turns down threesome and randy coworker! Instead of bunch of guy roommates joking about e.g. masturbation in 'gross out' scene, chicks chat about synchronized menstruation!' I would have noticed this myself but I was too distracted by the sheer weirdness of various weakly developed subplots - e.g. the 'emotionally stunted by father's death' thing or the 'kid from tv show with the cell phone' thing (wtf was that about?) and the lapses in tone really bothered me: 'it's a crime scene in my panties'. I think that was meant…
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I didnt even finish it...
FUCKING DUMB
and had actors/actresses I really like so compleatly disappointing
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Uhm.. Yeah..
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About as romantic as date rape and as funny as the holocaust. Skip it.
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Met het risico op hoongelach van de voltallige CuttingEdge-redactie durven we het volgende laten optekenen: al geruime tijd hebben we een stiekeme man-crush op Ashton Kutcher. Akkoord, de wollen toy-boy van Demi Moore heeft nog nooit een goede film afgeleverd, laat staan iets dat het kijken waard is, maar toch heeft ie een soort likeabilty over zich hangen die we best wel kunnen pruimen. Misschien is het omdat we in zijn onscreen persona een soort van self-fulfilling prophecy zien. Kutcher is misschien de gladde player die wij nooit geweest zijn. Alleszins, alvorens we ons laatste greintje mannelijkheid volledig naar de sjokkedeizen helpen, toch even dit: 'No strings attached', het nieuwe euh... wapenfeit van Kutcher had alles in zich om zo'n…
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I wanted this to be better than Friends with Benefits. Natalie Portman is my favorite actress so speaking of, it's still weird to me just how everywhere Nat was in 2011 and how the majority of her roles were so different from what she normally goes for.
What I did like was that everyone seemed to get a happy ending for the most part. In the FwB review I mentioned how sad it is that most side characters in romcoms end up single, alone, speaking of great white buffalo's (ones that got away) while the main two run off together, credits rolling, upbeat music playing. It's sad. Here, just when I thought that was going to be the case again,…
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So many great/awesome/funny people in this cast. And while I did find myself laughing/enjoying moments, it just didn't make any sense. Wait, who's that? They're dating? Why? The first time "quirk" has ever bothered me. I guess that comes out of the fact that this is a director "trying something on" rather than a natural expression of their style/world view. This cast (minus Ashton) deserved better.
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Surprisingly better on a second watch.
It ain't no Friends with Benefits but No Strings Attached actually has some decent laughs and the odd emotive tug. Plus Natalie Portman is silly hot.
Clichéd as they come, but who gives a shit.
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Just......no.
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It had it’s cheesy moments, and one line at the end specifically almost ruined the entire thing, but overall NO STRINGS ATTACHED is a decent flick. Especially when you have a gift card.
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A pesar de que su director es responsable de obras maestras como Los cazafantasmas (I y II) y Poli de guardería (en serio), esta es una de esas pelis románticas para el olvido o para una sobremesa de indigestión. Como suele ocurrir en este tipo de películas, aquí se desperdicia lo más interesante y divertido: el trabajo de los actores secundarios y las tramas de sus personajes (Jake Johnson -Safety Not Guaranteed-, Lake Bell -Juno-, Mindy Kaling -The Office-...). La protagonista, como también suele ocurrir, cae como una patada en el culo, a pesar de lo adorable que es Natalie Portman, y el chico protagonista... pura ciencia ficción, en todos los sentidos. Una tontuna total... de esas que una necesita tragarse de vez en cuando.
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No Strings Attached was horrid. Just awful. But I was pretty much alcohol poisoned and unable to tell my cousin Zac to stop watching such a terrible insult to filmmaking. I don’t think it’s just that I don’t care for Natalie Portman any longer, though that bias might be what carries my loathing to it’s extreme.
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Yeah yeah yeah, I know. Most people hate this but I really like it. The first time I saw this I felt the same way and went out and bought this the next day. On certain occasions I'm a sucker for a cheesy rom-com.......and I'm lactose intolerant. Weird.
This came out around the same time as JT and Mila Kunis's Friends With Benefits and they're very much the same but very different as well. To be honest, I kept waiting for things to happen in this that I later realized were in FWB. How are they different? This is way funnier and Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher are much better than Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake.
(Don't worry Mila, you…