Adam finds out, gets drunk and calls the women in his phone seeking a hookup
Critical reception
No Strings Attached received mixed reviews. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 49%, based on 165 reviews, with an average rating of 5.2 out of 10. The site’s consensus reads: “It benefits from the presence of Natalie Portman and director Ivan Reitman’s steady hand, but No Strings Attached doesn’t have the courage or conviction to follow through on its ribald premise.” On Metacritic, the film received a score of 50 out of 100, based on 36 reviews, indicating “mixed or average reviews”.
Critic David Edelstein described No Strings Attached as a film with “a supposedly feminist veneer. (that) never makes the case for Emma’s point of view. It’s almost a feminist backlash movie, and it didn’t have to be. There are plenty of reasons for brilliant young women, especially with the stress of a medical career, to approach time- and emotion-consuming relationships warily.” He expressed disappointment on overuse of stock characters, as well as Reitman’s “heavy-handed” direction and a story that is ultimately “corny and contrived and conservative.” A. O. Scott called the film “not entirely terrible. high praise indeed, given that this is a film aspiring to match the achievement of 27 Dresses, When in Rome, and Leap Year”; according to Scott, the film is “Love & Other Drugs without the disease”, a film whose pleasures “are to be found in the brisk, easy humor of some of Ms. Meriwether’s dialogue and in the talented people scattered around Ms. Portman and Mr. Kutcher like fresh herbs strewn on a serving of overcooked fish.” Scott considered “the film’s great squandered opportunity-and also the source of some of its best comic moments-is that Ms. (mais…)