Starring Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Kline.
This movie can be summed up in one word as “borrringgg”.
It is about a girl Emma (Natalie Portman) who is emotion-less. She doesn’t want to feel sorrow, grief, sadness and because of that she never has a serious relationship. Adam (Ashton Kutcher) is a happy guy though he doesn’t have much to be happy about. (Its the same character Kutcher plays in all in rom-coms). They meet and become friends-with-benefits. Adam starts having feelings for Emma but they are not reciprocated and thus they end their relationship. Not much to anyone’s surprise, they reconcile and try to give commitment a shot.
Natalie Portman was a disappointing factor in the movie. She couldn’t carry out the role given to her. Perhaps if it had been assigned to any other academy non-winning actress, it would have been more believable. Ashton Kutcher is always the same. I think that after doing almost all movies on the same theme, he has pretty much grasped the role. The movie suffered from a dearth of dialogs and background score. It might as well have been a silent movie for all I care. There were too many not required characters and scenes which, if scraped, would have made it more likable. And I simply don’t understand why people feel that use of vulgarity makes anything appealing? In all fairness the movie did have a few moments which made me smile but there is nothing that a good script cannot kill.
