After Adam (Ashton Kutcher) finds out that his father is in a relationship with his ex-girlfriend he decides, while inebriated, to call every woman he knows in an attempt to get laid. The next morning he wakes up in one of his best female friends’ apartment,  Emmaa (Natalie Portman). Emmaa and Adam have sex, and eventually decide that they should have a purely sexual relationship.

Romantic comedies are what I used to think were the easiest going film genres of all time. You get two charming, quirky, funny leads and ask them to smile as each of them are cute and sweet to each other. I go in, I chuckle, smirk and smile at these two people falling in love. However, somewhere along the way it became a little too common place and the jokes just stopped being funny, the grand gesture stopped being effective and that first moment stopped being cute. So this brings us to Ivan Reitman’s latest debacle, No Strings Attached.

If you ask anyone out there if people can separate sex from love I’m sure you’ll find people who’ll tell you they can, but it just never turns out well in the end one way or another. This movie however, doesn’t make that clear just because since it’s obvious from the outset that both of them aren’t entirely honest with each other about what they want, and by both of them I mean the guy. What’s this trend in movies that makes the guy into the biggest vagina you can find. I’m not saying that guys aren’t emotional and open to love and all that good jazz, but not this level of stupidity. I feel like at this point we should just dress those men in skirts, kilts not allowed (those are meant for real men), and make sure that we can spot them from a hundred yards away so we’ll always know what kind of movie we’re into.

The thing about this movie is that unlike a lot of the romantic comedies that I enjoy it gives me a very unmanly male character, so as a guy I just didn’t enjoy it. It’s a chick flick through and through. I hoped to get a lot more of that friendly banter from Emmaa and her friends; Patrice (Greta Gerwig), Shira (Mindy Kaling) and whoever that guy is. They were fun at times, but just brushed over completely, and that’s how I felt about every honestly funny part of the movie. This is a movie from suffers from the review of “it had too few funny moments and they were just too far apart”.

IMDB says 6.2/10

Rotten Tomatoes says 49%

I say 3.5/10