{"id":5966,"date":"2011-02-26T19:33:10","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T00:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=5966"},"modified":"2011-02-26T19:33:10","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T00:33:10","slug":"no-strings-attached-2011-ivan-reitman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/5966","title":{"rendered":"No Strings Attached (2011, Ivan Reitman)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romantic comedy.  Ashton Kutcher is perfect in every way, and Natalie Portman is perfect except for very minor psychological issues.  Each has a promising career, a close family and a few supportive friends.  Together they form a perfect couple, having excellent sex (hooray for the R-rating) and fall in love.  Will she overcome her minor psychological issues in time, or will she lose Kutcher between a valentine&#8217;s day fight and her sister&#8217;s wedding?  I&#8217;m not telling!<\/p>\n<p>Embarrassingly it&#8217;s the third Ashton Kutcher movie I&#8217;ve seen in theaters, but not <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/4265\">the worst<\/a>.  In fact, after the first twenty minutes of sex comedy was followed by a half hour of unexciting relationship discussions I started paying attention to my nerdy film details instead of the dialogue, and found it to be a pretty well-made movie.  No horribly looped dialogue (until the penultimate line), no jaunty music or ever-gliding camera turning it into a glossy music video.<\/p>\n<p>Reitman cast his ol&#8217; <em>Dave<\/em> costar Kevin Kline as Kutcher&#8217;s dad, trying to stay young by taking the latest drugs and sleeping with his son&#8217;s latest girlfriends.  Can&#8217;t remember a disguised Cary Elwes having any lines at all, and I&#8217;m not sure whish one was Greta Gerwig of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/2268\">Baghead<\/a><\/em> and <em>LOL<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romantic comedy. Ashton Kutcher is perfect in every way, and Natalie Portman is perfect except for very minor psychological issues. Each has a promising career, a close family and a few supportive friends. Together they form a perfect couple, having excellent sex (hooray for the R-rating) and fall in love. Will she overcome her minor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,1230,1228,1229,182],"class_list":["post-5966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-girl-movie","tag-ivan-reitman","tag-natalie-portman","tag-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6016,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5966\/revisions\/6016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}