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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Movie Reviews - No Strings Attached

    No Strings Attached is an incredibly entertaining movie.  I had the pleasure of getting to go see it with my good friend Ian, which was actually a very good time.  No Strings Attached is actually almost as good a guy movie as it is a romantic comedy.  Not that i'm suggesting that if you and your bros are looking for a good film you should go see it, but if you need a good movie to take your girl to, this is a good choice.
   Natalie Portman plays Emma,  a young doctor who lives with her 3 friends, who are also doctors.  Emma is the RomCom archetype of the emotionally distant girl who inevitably falls in love with the hot male lead.  Expositionally speaking, Emma's one of those brainy girls from a brainy family who went to an Ivy League school before becoming a doctor.  Not really anything else I can do as far as in-depth character analysis, for fear of breaking the no spoilers rule.
 The "hot male lead" I referred to earlier is none other than Ashton Kutcher.  Now, Ashton is one of those actors I take a lot of shit for liking.  Him, and Keanu Reaves.  Ashton plays Adam, son of a television star, and who works on a TV series himself.  As an assistant.  So much for the typical hot AND successful male lead.  Adam's parents divorced when he was just a young lad, around the time he first met Emma, and it's the first thing they bond over.
    The movie starts when Adam and Emma first met, 15 years before the actual movie.  Once it gets to modern day, Adam and Emma become "sex friends" aka friends-with-benefits, and theres the plot.  Ugh I apologize for this weak review folks.  RomComs and my reviews never seem to be a good match.

tl;dr:

Plot: 8/10
Acting: 9/10
Soundtrack: 9.5/10
Effects: N/A
Overall: 8.83/10

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