No Strings Attached seeks to answer the question nobody is asking: “Can sex friends be best friends?
But back to my opening sentiment: this could all be so much worse. It’s not that No Strings Attached is awful, it’s just completely neutered. You know, back in the days when actual perversity and neurosis was allowed to worm its way in between the lovers? Actually, you don’t have to imagine, you can just go rent Trouble in Paradise, Ernst Lubitsch’s outrageously sexual 1932 crime farce. It’s better than No Strings Attached and it’s almost half an hour shorter. You’re welcome.
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I’m not about to make apologies for No Strings Attached – it’s a soulless movie with zero charm and almost no merits; a film which, if deleted from existence, wouldn’t even make the smallest ripple in the space-time continuum. However, speaking from Natalie Portman’s point of view, I can understand why she made it. After 12 months of hardcore ballet training for Black Swan, she just wanted to slum it. Acting opposite Ashton Kutcher is the equivalent of dropping down a year in school for someone like her. Read more “No Strings Attached seeks to answer the question nobody is asking: “Can sex friends be best friends?”
