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	Movie Review: No Strings Attached Although Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman take about 45 f***king ‘crude’ minutes to make us...

What's hot:

Ashton Kutcher. He is adorable.

What's not:

No Strings Attached is quite unsanitised, even if we overlook menstrual jokes!

 verdict:

Although Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman take about 45 f***king ‘crude’ minutes to make us fall in love with their carefree characters, this movie is worth a Valentine watch, in spite of it not being a mushy film!

 RATING:

Director: Ivan Reitman
Cast: Ashton Kutcher, Natalie Portman, Kevin Kline

It’s not like Bollywood doesn’t have sex comedies. Masti, Dil Toh Bachcha Hai Ji and Aamir Khan’s upcoming Delhi Belly are the recent examples. But of course our scripts and dialogues are written keeping Indian sensibilities in mind and that’s why Ivan Reitman’s let’s-just-be-f***-buddies movie may not go down well with Indians. Well, at the first half.

After finding out that his father (Kevin Kline) is sleeping with his ex-girlfriend, Adam (Kutcher) casually hooks up with Emma (Portman). Since she has a skeptical view about love and relationships Emma has already set no flowers, no breakfast and no spooning ground rules with Adam.

Initially he has no problem with being ‘sext friends’ with her. Whether it’s three in the morning or in the afternoon, he is always there for her when Emma texts him. So far so good, until Adam realises he has fallen out of lust and is now falling in love with her.

No Strings Attached is quite unsanitised, even if we overlook menstrual jokes! But after many crass words and squeamish one-liners, the movie does work post-interval. Ashton is simply too cute as a goodhearted assistant writer who is so smitten by the girl he loves that he doesn’t mind making a ‘period’ CD for Emma when she’s upset or getting a bunch of carrots for her since she is an anti-flower, anti-love kind of girl. As for Natalie, she plays the part of “I’m a loner, I’m here only for sex” fairly convincingly. It’s like a reversal of gender roles.

So yes, although it takes about 45 f***king ‘crude’ minutes before Adam and Emma make us fall in love with their carefree characters, this movie is worth a Valentine watch, in spite of it not being a mushy film! Also watch out for the sidekicks – the blunt Indian girl (Mindy Kaling), the macho-softie man (Ludacris) and the screwball colleague (Lake Bell), who add to the eccentricity of the film.