Before Adam and Lucy can have sex, Vanessa calls Adam-his father is in the hospital, having overdosed on Purple Drank

Before Adam and Lucy can have sex, Vanessa calls Adam-his father is in the hospital, having overdosed on Purple Drank

The film has grossed $70.7 million in the United States and Canada and $77.1 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $147.7 million . [ 2 ]

Reception

The film has received mixed reviews. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 49% based on reviews from 161 critics and reports a rating average of 5.3 out of 10. [ 12 ] At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 50% based on 36 reviews. [ 13 ] Rotten Tomatoes reported that critics described No Strings Attached as having “moments of warmth and sweetness that are spoiled by a predictable narrative and a dirty mind.” It said, “The pundits say Portman and Kutcher keep things genial and easygoing, but they’re let down by a middling script that shoehorns in a little too much raunchy material.” [ 14 ]

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.” [ 15 ] 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. Read more