No Strings Attached

It’s hard to criticise a romantic comedy, cause everything that is bad about it isn’t really the fault of the movie, it’s the fault of the whole genre.

No, let me rephrase that, it’s not the 'fault', it’s just the way it’s meant to be. Romantic comedies are meant to be predictable, unoriginal and packed with stars who just have to be pretty.

‘No Strings Attached’ is a perfect example of such a romantic comedy.

But even if you accept that you already know the ending and all the plot twists, it still isn’t that much fun. It has its moments, but those moments are rare and already shown in the trailer.

I don’t think that it’s the actors fault though, Ashton Kutcher is very capable of carrying a romantic comedy and I think Natalie Portman deserved to make an easy movie after ‘Black Swan’.

Nonetheless, I’m more curious about the almost exact same movie that is coming out on the 22^nd of July, ‘Friends with Benefits’ (Fun fact: ‘No Strings Attached’ was almost called ‘Friends with Benefits’, then it really would have been the same). The stars, Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake, are probably slightly worse than Kutcher and Portman (Another Fun Fact: Kunis and Portman starred in ‘Black Swan’ together) but after Easy A I’m a Will Gluck fan and the trailer was simply funnier. I’ll compare them again in July.