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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:3
Rotten:28
Average Rating:3.7/10
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
I think it's safe to say that the concerns about sexism in cinema that Heigl voiced so ardently after her career-making turn in Knocked Up have ebbed in direct proportion to the increases in her subsequent paychecks.
Top CriticIt’s just not believable.
Top CriticThe Ugly Truth has a nice moment here and there, but there is much more ugliness than truth.
Top CriticAside from being relational science-fiction, The Ugly Truth feels about 150 years out of date -- or it would, if the script weren't so clinically dependent on the topics of masturbation and genitalia and raunch.
Top CriticDespite the fact that it swims in a veritable ocean of romantic comedy clichés, The Ugly Truth should manage to captivate and charm men and women alike.
Top CriticUgly is, indeed, the word for any comedy that manages to insult both its cast and audience with nearly every scene.
Top CriticThe ugly truth about The Ugly Truth is the fact that -- funny though it is -- it could have been a whole lot funnier.
Top CriticRomantic comedies are an increasingly debased genre, but few recent Hollywood products have been anywhere near as crass and contrived as The Ugly Truth.
Top CriticUntil that final, inevitable kiss, we have to listen to them, and the clatter of their crude, brainless exchanges is unbearable.
Top CriticWith its set 'em up, knock 'em down series of cliches, The Ugly Truth marks off the romantic comedy checklist.
Top CriticThe truth is this movie is ugly, in spirit and execution.
Top CriticOpposites attract, but you'll really wish they hadn't by the time The Ugly Truth is through.
Top CriticThe film is so predictable that it might as well have been written as a test classroom exercise in RomCom 101.
Top CriticThe Ugly Truth wants to have it both ways, reveling in a misogyny it claims to deplore.
Top CriticContrived as a crossover between a female-friendly romantic comedy and a male-targeted, anti-political correctness jab, The Ugly Truth veers between crude and cloying.
Top CriticA cynical, clumsy, aptly titled attempt to cross the female-oriented romantic comedy with the male-oriented gross-out comedy.
Top CriticFormulaic, stupid, and unfunny in all the usual ways. Is there no more ingenuity in Hollywood? Can no one think of new ways for movies to be irritating and pointless?
Top CriticIn its wan attempt to be raunchy, the picture fails where Judd Apatow has usually succeeded; written by three women, this is a girl's mistaken idea of an R-rated comedy.
Top CriticUnder the direction of Robert Luketic, The Ugly Truth is pleasingly glossy, refreshingly snarky and startlingly sexy.
Top CriticToss this ugly crap to the curb, along with the other multiplex garbage, and see a romance that gets it right. I'm talking (500) Days of Summer.
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