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.
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The Ugly Truth (2009)
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Reviews Counted:152
Fresh:22
Rotten:130
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
It's tempting to make a joke based on the title of The Ugly Truth. But that would require investing this review with more actual wit than the entire film contains.
07/22/09
Butler's regular-guyness makes the character more likable than he should be; but Heigl, for all her screen presence, looks great but seems stiff, as if she's uncomfortable with the wilder physical comedy of the character.
07/21/09
Top CriticPlays 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
By 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
As 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
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
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
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
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
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