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Commentary – No Strings Attached
Guess what? No Strings Attached, for the most part, actually works! Romantic Comedies, I feel are the trickiest of all genres. It’s an unknown quotient of ingredients needed to make a good cocktail of two people falling in love, amidst a contrived plot. You often end up with something too sweet, or too flat, too light or too dark, or just unpalatable. I felt that James L Brook’s How Do You Know had some good ingredients, but No Strings Attached, directed by Ivan Reitman, does a better job of mixing it all together. So in keeping with my rom/com cocktail metaphor, the movie would rate 3 out of 5 cherries…