Ashton Kutcher does his best to drag Oscar-winner Natalie Portman down to his level in this charmless relationship comedy – a post-Black Swan slum-session for the usually dependable actress. Can sex friends be best friends?
Director Ivan Reitman struggles to make us care; the would-be neat gender reversal renders both Kutcher’s needy sap and Portman’s “no-strings” professional shagger insufferable.
It’s blindingly obvious they’ll go the distance… so why all the foreplay?
