No Strings Attached is a sweet and earnest romantic comedy that is very modern in its premise and yet has a surprisingly conservative payoff. Can friends have sex and stay friends? According to this movie the answer is no. This being a romantic comedy, you know they have to fall in love in the end, so you see it coming and yet this clashes so much against the philosophy through out of the rest of the movie that it bothered me enough to that the movie was no longer enjoyable as it had been for the previous hour and a half. I wish for the creative forces in Hollywood to be bold enough to do something different; I can keep wishing but I don’t think that is going to happen.
