No Strings Attached provide good turns from Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman in this rom-com

Rating: 8/10 (25 January 2011)

Just watched this romantic comedy starring Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher with my movie theatre-working friend at the place where he works. Their characters first meet at a summer camp as teenagers where the one who grows up to be Kutcher is experiencing his parents' divorce and the one who becomes Ms. Portman admits she's not good at consoling people. After another meeting at a frat party, it's several more years before the two meet and eventually decide to have a physical relationship with what the title above implies. I'll just say this was a funny and touching rom-com with plenty of good scenes and lines from the two leads and many of the supporting players like that of Kevin Kline as Kutcher's dad, Lake Bell (who I initially thought was Amanda Peet) as Ashton's production associate, and "The Office"s Mindy Kaling as one of Ms. Portman's roommates, among others. All of the above was directed by Ivan Reitman who's long provided many entertaining movies these past 30 or so years (of which one of his earliest, Meatballs, is represented by a poster shown in a couple scenes). By the way, he also cameos as a director here.