Everything about The Ugly Truth is so laboured and predictable that it feels as if a computer programme must have been involved in its creation.
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08/07/09
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: 15 [See Full Rating]
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:07-08-2009
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
Reviews for The Ugly Truth
Tedious, painfully unfunny romantic comedy that fails thanks to a smug, unnecessarily smutty script.
08/07/09
The jokes are so few and far between that you can see them backing into position up to 15 minutes in advance - like a ten-ton truck making a bad-gag delivery.
08/07/09
The ugly truth about this limp misfire is that its plotting springs not from a lack of imagination, but from a lack of respect for light romance and the audience. It's only a "chick flick" and we're only sentimentalists – so who cares?
08/07/09
The ugly truth about The Ugly Truth is that it exposes the absolute contempt the genre once again displays for its women characters.
08/07/09
While the cast is watchable, the film simply has nothing original to say.
07/27/09
The 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
A putative romantic comedy about the fundamental differences between men and women, it reduces both genders to emotional cripples while failing to find any humor in the situation.
11/27/09
...a mildly diverting yet thoroughly uninvolving romantic comedy...
11/14/09
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10/13/09
As a girls'-night-out movie for those in the right frame of mind, it gets some laughs, even a few big ones. But this opposites-attract comedy is wildly uneven: There are long stretches of down time, and some of the humor is so crude it backfires.
09/10/09
Apparently, the ugly truth is that neither sex needs or deserves respect. How romantic. The 'Sex and the City' gals would be proud.
09/08/09
Formula can be fun, as it is here.
08/31/09
This lackluster, stereotypical movie attempts to update its shopworn formula with a stream of four letter words and sexually crude phrases in Judd Apatow fashion but ends up turning off everyone in the process.
08/26/09
Allowing the characters to talk dirty adds nothing to the chick flick formula.
08/21/09
THE UGLY TRUTH isn't as painfully predictable as THE PROPOSAL, and it's funnier too. That doesn't mean it's a complete success. I never really wanted the two leads to end up with each other, and the transition in which they fall in love is clunky.
08/16/09
Yet another wearying "battle-of-the-sexes" romp that's sure to please dumb people but didn't please me.
08/15/09
Daring and dirty, making it so delicious.
08/14/09
Heigl is said to have fallen out with Apatow since the making of Knocked Up. Maybe she should reconnect with him.
08/14/09
Ugly can't Describe the Truth about this Film
08/13/09
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