No Strings Attached

The thing that Ivan Reitman did right - making a film after 5 years - was to get a woman to write his next romantic comedy and then pepper it with a cast of talented, lovely ladies. This automatically should have given the film come charm and a point of view not seen in most romantic comedies out of the Hollywood stables. What he did wrong was trust his instincts and make a film that insults women anyway.

Natalie Portman's character, as written and directed, is mean, petty and stupid, and she is willfully ignorant of her own self. In a film where two friends get together to ha....