History Film / NoStringsAttached2011

''No Strings Attached'' is a 2011 romantic comedy directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Elizabeth Meriwether. The story is about two longtime friends, Emma (Creator/NataliePortman) and Adam (Creator/AshtonKutcher), who decide to become FriendsWithBenefits.

* AThreesomeIsHot: Zigzagged. Initially two girls fall in love sitting on either side of Adam, and he just looks like he's caught in their moment. Then he takes them back to his place but when he goes in for a kiss one of them pushes him away. All of this only to serves to reinforce Emma's jealousy of course and leads to a CrowningMomentOfFunny as she drunkenly kicks them out of his house.

* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend

* GoldDigger: Vanessa, after she and Adam broke up. [[spoiler:She cheated on him with his dad and told him straight up that she wanted to marry, have a baby and thus become Adam's stepmom. Thankfully, this plan was adverted at the end of the film.]]

* WildTeenParty: In the beginning at the UsefulNotes/UniversityOfMichigan, where plenty of people are having sex with Anything That Moves.

* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Emma and her fellow hospital coworkers/friends use these in quite a few jokes. Anytime Adam tries the same thing for them, they always accuse him of ''[[{{Wikipedia}} looking it up]]'' to which he humbly acknowledges so.

* DuelingMovies: ''Film/FriendsWithBenefits'' runs an incredibly similar plot to this film as you might have guessed, releasing six months after this one. And for an added bonus, the female lead of that movie is Natalie Portman's ''BlackSwan'' co-star, Creator/MilaKunis, who also played Aston Kutcher's girlfriend on ''That70sShow'' (and following Kutcher's divorce, he and Kunis would date in real life). The male lead, JustinTimberlake used to be in Music/{{NSYNC}}, which once released an album called ''No Strings Attached''.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Natalie Portman spoke in one interview that studio execs refused to let her improvise anything. The thinking was since she's mostly been in drama films, [[InsaneTrollLogic she wouldn't know how to be funny]]; despite the fact that she appeared on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' once, and her role in ''Film/GardenState'' was comedic. Natalie only got one improvised moment in (the bit with the 3D Glasses), and it's possibly one of the film's [[CrowningMomentOfFunny funniest moments]].

* [[ManicPixieDreamGirl Manic Pixie Dream Guy]]: Adam. So adorable, romantic and quirky, he might as well be played by Creator/ZoeyDeschanel. Seriously, the guy made her ''a period mix.''

''No Strings Attached'' is a 2011 romantic comedy directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Elizabeth Meriwether. The story is about two longtime friends, Emma (Creator/NataliePortman) and Adam (Creator/AshtonKutcher) who decide to become FriendsWithBenefits.

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* ExecutiveMeddling: Natalie Portman spoke in one interview that studio execs refused to let her improvise anything. The thinking was since she's mostly been in drama films, [[InsaneTrollLogic she wouldn't know how to be funny]]; despite the fact that she appeared on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' once, and her role in ''GardenState'' was comedic. Natalie only got one improvised moment in (the bit with the 3D Glasses), and it's possibly one of the film's [[CrowningMomentOfFunny funniest moments]].

''No Strings Attached'' is a 2011 romantic comedy directed by Ivan Reitman (''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}'', ''{{Dave}}'') and written by Elizabeth Meriwether. The story is about two longtime friends, Emma (NataliePortman) and Adam ([[That70sShow Ashton Kutcher]]) who decide to become FriendsWithBenefits.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Natalie Portman spoke in one interview that studio execs refused to let her improvise anything. The thinking was since she's mostly been in drama films, [[InsaneTrollLogic she wouldn't know how to be funny]]; despite the fact that she appeared on ''SaturdayNightLive'' once, and her role in ''GardenState'' was comedic. Natalie only got one improvised moment in (the bit with the 3D Glasses), and it's possibly one of the film's [[CrowningMomentOfFunny funniest moments]].

* ShoutOut: Adam writes a script for a [[{{Glee}} musical high-school set TV show]] (he describes it as "teenagers singing about homework").

* DuelingMovies: ''Film/FriendsWithBenefits'' runs an incredibly similar plot to this film as you might have guessed, releasing six months after this one. And for an added bonus, the female lead of that movie is Natalie Portman's ''BlackSwan'' co-star, MilaKunis, who also played Aston Kutcher's girlfriend on ''That70sShow'' (and following Kutcher's divorce, he and Kunis would date in real life). The male lead, JustinTimberlake used to be in Music/{{NSYNC}}, which once released an album called ''No Strings Attached''.

* WildTeenParty: In the beginning at the University of Michigan, where plenty of people are having sex with Anything That Moves.

* DuelingMovies: ''Film/FriendsWithBenefits'' runs an incredibly similar plot to this film as you might have guessed, releasing six months after this one. And for an added bonus, the female lead of that movie is Natalie Portman's ''BlackSwan'' co-star, MilaKunis, who also played Aston Kutcher's girlfriend on ''That70sShow'' (and following Kutcher's divorce, he and Kunis would date in real life). The male lead, JustinTimberlake used to be in 'NSync, which once released an album called ''No Strings Attached''.

* FootFocus: There are a couple times where Natalie's bare feet are right up at the camera. Such as when her underwear is getting pulled off. Plus, she's barefoot on the movie poster. In some versions of the poster, the title doesn't obstruct her feet.

* LoveFatherLoveSon: Inverted as Adam's father keeps dating his ex-girlfriends/women who fell for him.

* PairTheSpares: Almost every character is shown to be in some kind of relationship at the end of the movie.

* ShoutOut: ''HighSchoolMusical'', anyone?
** More of a ''{{Glee}}'' vibe with regards to the musical high-school set TV show that Adam works for.

* DuelingMovies: ''Film/FriendsWithBenefits'' runs an incredibly similar plot to this film as you might have guessed, releasing six months after this one. And for an added bonus, the female lead of that movie is Natalie Portman's ''BlackSwan'' co-star, MilaKunis, who also played Aston Kutcher's girlfriend on ''That70sShow'' (and following Kutcher's divorce, he and Kunis would date in real life). The male lead, JustinTimberlake used to be in 'N Sync, which once released an album called ''No Strings Attached''.

* DuelingMovies: ''Film/FriendsWithBenefits'' runs an incredibly similar plot to this film as you might have guessed, releasing six months after this one. And for an added bonus, the female lead of that movie is Natalie Portman's ''BlackSwan'' co-star, MilaKunis, who also played Aston Kutcher's girlfriend on ''That70sShow''. The male lead, JustinTimberlake used to be in 'N Sync, which once released an album called ''No Strings Attached''.

* DuelingMovies: ''Film/FriendsWithBenefits'' runs an incredibly similar plot to this film as you might have guessed, releasing six months after this one. And for an added bonus, the female lead of that movie is Natalie Portman's ''Black Swan'' co-star, MilaKunis, who also played Aston Kutcher's girlfriend on ''That70sShow''. The male lead, JustinTimberlake used to be in 'N Sync, which once released an album called ''No Strings Attached''.

''No Strings Attached'' is a 2011 romantic comedy directed by Ivan Reitman (''{{Ghostbusters}}'', ''{{Dave}}'') and written by Elizabeth Meriwether. The story is about two longtime friends, Emma (NataliePortman) and Adam ([[That70sShow Ashton Kutcher]]) who decide to become FriendsWithBenefits.

* BetaCouple: Patrice and Eli, shown having a normal courtship and relationship in contrast to Emma and Adam.

* DefrostingIceQueen: Emma is vehement in being cold and distant to Adam, but the more time she spends with him, the more she realizes that isn't who she wants to be all the time.

* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex: Played straight from the first scene to the closing credits.

** Plus several minutes of [[FanService Man Service]] with Ashton Kutcher in nothing but a tiny towel covering him up as well as close up of his butt. Even one of [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Emma's friends were impressed]].

* TheFunInFuneral: Emma hinted with Adam about going with her to something stupid the day before. [[BlackComedy So he shows up in a Michigan bright yellow hoodie and shorts to her dad's funeral.]]

* LoveFatherLoveSon: Inverted as Adam's father keeps dating his ex-girlfriends/women who fell for him.

* PairTheSpares: Almost every character is shown to be in some kind of relationship at the end of the movie.
* ProductPlacement: Adam and Emma proudly use Trojan condoms. And iPhones.

** More of a ''{{Glee}}'' vibe with regards to the musical high-school set TV show that Adam works for.

* AThreesomeIsHot: Zigzagged. Initially two girls fall in love sitting on either side of Adam, and he just looks like he's caught in their moment. Then he takes them back to his place but when he goes in for a kiss one of them pushes him away. All of this only to serves to reinforce Emma's jealousy of course and leads to a CrowningMomentOfFunny as she drunkenly kicks them out of his house.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Natalie Portman spoke in one interview that studio execs refused to let her improvise anything. The thinking was since she's mostly been in drama films, [[InsaneTrollLogic she wouldn't know how to be funny]]; despite the fact that she appeared on ''SaturdayNightLive'' once, and her role in ''GardenState'' was comedic. Natalie only got one improvised moment in (the bit with the 3D Glasses), and it's [[YourMilageMayVary possibly]] one of the film's [[CrowningMomentOfFunny funniest moments]].