Predictable romcom mixes racy content, sexist messages.
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07/27/09
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
It’s just not believable.
07/27/09
The Ugly Truth has a nice moment here and there, but there is much more ugliness than truth.
07/27/09
Ugly, and that's the truth!
07/26/09
...despite some execrable dialogue, the clocklike predictability of the jokes and a total lack of faith in the audience's powers of discernment, Heigl and Butler almost pull it off.
07/26/09
Here's the REAL ugly truth: The Ugly Truth is an uninspiring romantic-comedy rehash.
07/25/09
So raunchy and tiresome - it could turn a date-night into a disaster.
07/25/09
Left to her own devices, Heigl drowns in the role, but Butler always steps in with a life preserver of comedic timing and saves most of the scenes.
07/24/09
The Ugly Truth is a highly calculated attempt to recalibrate with raunch the family entertainment template and cash in.
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Aside from being relational science-fiction, The Ugly Truth feels about 150 years out of date -- or it would, if the script weren't so clinically dependent on the topics of masturbation and genitalia and raunch.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
Say no to Hollywood hackery and cynical, demographic-courting filmmaking. Say no to movies made by people who condescend and treat you like bleating sheep. Say no to The Ugly Truth.
07/24/09
In an attempt to ride the comic coattails of the Judd Apatow comedies, The Ugly Truth is full of crude and profane language, but it comes across as awkwardly inappropriate rather than edgy.
07/24/09
The Ugly Truth is about as subtle as a boulder rolling downhill through a crowded playground.
07/24/09
Despite 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.
07/24/09
Ugly is, indeed, the word for any comedy that manages to insult both its cast and audience with nearly every scene.
07/24/09
The Ugly Truth isn't really as truthful as it thinks, and its "brave" pushing of the envelope of taste isn't even as transgressive as your typical HBO series.
07/24/09
The ugly truth is that Gerard Butler's fingers-across-the-blackboard performance makes The Ugly Truth painful to endure.
07/24/09
The ugly truth about The Ugly Truth is the fact that -- funny though it is -- it could have been a whole lot funnier.
07/24/09
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
Until that final, inevitable kiss, we have to listen to them, and the clatter of their crude, brainless exchanges is unbearable.
07/24/09
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