Director: Ivan Reitman
Writer(s): Elizabeth Meriwether
Starring; Natalie Portman,Ashton Kutcher and Kevin Kline
Distributors: Paramount Pictures
Adam (Kutcher) and Emma (Portman) are a couple who agree to have a strictly physical relationship without any emotion. But wait! can they actually continue a relationship solely based on sex? or will they develop feelings for one another?
I wish I can say more about the plot than this, however, I can't. The chances are you have already worked out the ending to this film by reading the first three lines of my introduction so just like the concept of this film I will keep this review relatively short. The formula is simple (Spoiler alert!!!): Guy meets girl, guy chases girl, guy and girl stop seeing each other (although their feelings are quite clear) guy and girl realise what they have and get together - happy ending. Although this formula has worked with various film the only piece of originality is Elizabeth Meriweather who has made Emma (Portman) the emotionally distant love interest, who suggests the f*ck buddy relationship, and Adam (Kutcher) as the needy guy who goes along for the ride although it is clear he wants more. I really don't know what else to say. This film is so predictable it is impossible and I enjoyed it for it's predictability. It passed the time and made me laugh a here and there but there isn't much more.
The Supporting cast is good. Kevin Kline made a great performance and I, for some reason, was happy to see him back on the big screen. Kline plays Adams dad a one time TV star who Adam constantly try to move out of his shadow.In addition he is also man going through a mid-life crisis shacking himself up with Adams ex girlfriend. This was buy far the funniest part of the plot which brought out some good scenes between him and Kutcher (Kline character offering Adam a Spliff and Adams Birthday dinner stand out to me).
Jake M Johnson and Chris "Ludacris" Bridges Play Eli and Wallace who also have two of the best roles in film as Adams friends.They do a good job of giving him very poor advice and draw more laughs than Kutcher and Portman's characters put together. Mindy Kaling (The Office: An American Workplace) is the finniest of Portmans support taking full advantage of her comedy skills with line that are guaranted to make you chuckle. Kaling Plays Shira the "cooky" one of Emma's friends and I loved her characters wit and one liners throughout the film.
One thought. I heard that Ivan Reitman was too old to direct a film with such young content.....bullocks! he does a good job each he brought out comedy from Portman who is usually brittle and Kutcher who usually sucks in any case I disagree. the only problem which I have with this movies is, as I have saying throughout, its good. It isn't great, Its average good at best.
To be quite honest I'm getting bored writing about it. This is not a bad film by all means I have just seen so many versions of it. This is film writing 101 and so there is no point talking about it anymore or I will ruin it all for you as Peter Bradshaw of the Guardian eloquently put it: "You don't need a PhD in romcomology from the University of Predictable Nonsense, formerly Predictable Nonsense Polytechnic, to guess what happens next." The main thing to know is that this film is OK so go and check it outor all the romantics out there.
I would give this film 2 1/2 Winkleman's out of 5
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