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The Ugly Truth

2009

Robert Luketic

Gerard Butler, Katherine Heigl, Cheryl Hines, Bonnie Somerville ...

5.6

19,433

Romance. Comedy A romantically challenged morning show producer (Katherine Heigl) from Sacramento is reluctantly embroiled in a series of outrageous tests by her chauvinistic correspondent (Gerard Butler) to prove his theories on relationships and help her find love. His clever ploys, however, lead to an unexpected result.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Heigl and Butler are so pleasant in 'The Ugly Truth' that it’s a shame to spoil their party. But toil and try as they do, the comedy bogs down in relentless predictability and the puzzling overuse of naughty words. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"You can't handle this truth! Lame love comedy sure ain't pretty. (...) Few recent Hollywood products have been anywhere near as crass and contrived as 'The Ugly Truth'."	NEG
United States	Ruth McCann The Washington Post	"A Rom-Com So 'Ugly' It's Delightful. (...) is indulgently glossy, refreshingly snarky and legitimately sexy. (...) is shallow and fleeting, candylike and summery. But there is no shame in that. And if you refuse to see it now, you'll see it on some airplane someday. And you'll watch it. And that's the ugly truth."	POS
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"Despite its appealing stars, 'The Ugly Truth' is a charmless romantic comedy."	NEG
United States	Chris Kaltenbach Baltimore Sun	"'The Ugly Truth' can't escape its own ugly truth, that the central characters are written to extremes both ludicrous and tiring."	NEG
United States	Amy Biancolli SFGATE	"Funny though it is - is it could have been a whole lot funnier."	NEU
Canada	Liam Lacey The Globe and Mail	"Veers between crude and cloying"	NEG
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"Feels about 150 years out of date"	NEG
United States	Wesley Morris Boston Globe	"The movie has embarrassingly limited ideas about both the sexes and sex."	NEU
United States	Stephen Farber The Hollywood Reporter	"A romantic comedy depends, of course, on the chemistry between the leads, and here the film is more successful. Both Heigl and Butler find the appeal in very flawed characters."	NEU
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"A cynical, clumsy, aptly titled attempt to cross the female-oriented romantic comedy with the male-oriented gross-out comedy that is interesting on several levels, none having to do with cinema."	NEG

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