This Butler-Heigl mismatch drop-kicks romcom from the RocknRolla sublime to the Apatow depths.
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07/22/09
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The Ugly Truth (2009)
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Reviews Counted:153
Fresh:22
Rotten:131
Average Rating:3.8/10
Consensus: Despite the best efforts of Butler and Heigl, The Ugly Truth suffers from a weak script that relies on romantic comedy formula, with little charm or comedic payoff.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Jul 24, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $88,915,214
Synopsis: The battle of the sexes heats up in Columbia Pictures' comedy The Ugly Truth. Abby Richter (Katherine Heigl) is a romantically challenged morning show producer whose search for Mr. Perfect has left... [More]
Starring: Gerard Butler, Katherine Heigl, Cheryl Hines, Bonnie Somerville
Director: Robert Luketic
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Reviews for The Ugly Truth
Hit-and-miss comedy delivers the unsurprising news that opposites attract.
07/20/09
Top CriticThe Ugly Truth deals with the battle between the sexes, but the main casualties here are viewers of this coarse, contrived romantic comedy.
07/20/09
It’s an odd, far-fetched twist on the Pygmalion story, with the modern angle of poking holes in political correctness, one that might have been made marginally convincing by a dollop of backstory or psychology.
07/20/09
Top CriticLaugh out loud funny; every guy should drag his girlfriend to this movie. Women may laugh at what Butler says, but they should take notes.
07/22/09
Given Robert Luketic's embarrassing, over-the-top direction, the cat emerges as the best actor in this movie. Need I say more?
07/20/09
Despite the ages of the leads, plays to younger audiences, goes for the Judd Apatow crowd. It's unapologetically brash, crass, and ugly in its truth, but still funny.
07/22/09
Romantic comedies are an increasingly debased genre, but few recent Hollywood products have been anywhere near as crass and contrived as The Ugly Truth.
07/24/09
Top CriticLook, it's only fair. If impressionable frat boys can enjoy The Hangover this summer and impressionable teenagers can enjoy Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, then why not give impressionable women their own imbecilic film?
07/24/09
Mike has proven that all his dating theories, which treat women as easy-manipulated magpies, are correct. That's the ugly truth this movie is selling.
07/21/09
Opposites attract, but you'll really wish they hadn't by the time The Ugly Truth is through.
07/24/09
Top CriticBy the time they have their big showdown in a hot air balloon (a sequence, incidentally, featuring some of the fakiest green-screen work in recent memory), you'll be pleading for an 'Oh, the humanity!' ending to this cinematic Hindenberg.
07/21/09
The problem with Ugly Truth is not that it's formulaic and predictable (most Hollywood romantic comedies are), but that it's silly, charmless, poorly helmed, and doesn't serve well its stars, Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler.
07/21/09
Plays like a busted Fox sitcom pilot, though heavier on the raunchiness and dragged out to a literally painful hour and a half.
07/21/09
Until that final, inevitable kiss, we have to listen to them, and the clatter of their crude, brainless exchanges is unbearable.
07/24/09
Top CriticAs usual, characters end up in an escalating series of preposterous events and zany hijinks that, while being occasionally amusing, aren't much different from watching your average humdrum situational TV comedy.
07/21/09
A cynical, clumsy, aptly titled attempt to cross the female-oriented romantic comedy with the male-oriented gross-out comedy.
07/24/09
Aside from being relational science-fiction, The Ugly Truth feels about 150 years out of date -- or it would, if the script weren't so clinically dependent on the topics of masturbation and genitalia and raunch.
07/24/09
Top CriticHeigl is said to have fallen out with Apatow since the making of Knocked Up. Maybe she should reconnect with him.
08/14/09
If one were to take a buzzsaw to The Ugly Truth, its arterial spray would drip down the wall to form the coagulated word 'generic'.
08/07/09
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