Actually, there are a few strings attached.

Rating: 4/10 (30 May 2011)

Ivan Reitman's new romantic comedy "No Strings Attached" is far from terrible, but it still does not compare with the director's early films.
Natalie Portman, the recent Best Actress award winner, is not asked to do too much here. At least she can hold some of the emotional scenes - UNLIKE her counterpart.
Ashton Kutcher's one-trick-pony acting style leaves this relationship in love purgatory. He couldn't shed an honest tear if his acting life depended on it. The viewer is just left with this feeling that his character has no feeling... for her... or for the audience. We needed his character to show some of the emotion that Portman had little trouble with. Ashton's only job here is to smile and run around half naked for a third of the movie.
Some of the supporting roles were nice additions both for their performances and their place in the story/script.
This was obviously a big budget production with a veteran director, but unfortunately Kutchers emotionless performance robs this romantic-comedy of the romance. That characteristic alone is enough of a serious flaw to drastically drop my score here. If there was just one moment, ONE, where we actually felt like Kutcher genuinely felt bad because Portman wasn't around - this score would be significantly higher.
54/100