Directed by:
Robert LuketicCinematography:
Russell CarpenterComposer:
Aaron ZigmanCast:
Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler, Bree Turner, Eric Winter, Nick Searcy, Cheryl Hines, John Michael Higgins, Bonnie Somerville, Yvette Nicole Brown (more)Plots(1)
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 her hopelessly single. She's in for a rude awakening when her bosses team her with Mike Chadway (Gerard Butler), a hardcore TV personality who promises to spill the ugly truth on what makes men and women tick. (Sony Pictures Releasing)
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The beautiful Katherine Heigl, who has the cutest orgasm of all Hollywood actresses, and the quirky Gerald Butler are the only ingredients that somehow distinguish this offbeat romantic romp from a good 70% of its genre peers. We have fun, we relax and Butler's philosophy of life makes us relatively wiser (us guys, that is), but otherwise the ambitions and message of the film are as hopeless as the future of a relationship that puts sex on the back burner.
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An excellent romantic comedy with a great central duo. Gerard Butler is properly cheeky and his sexual innuendos to women carry the whole film. Katherine Heigl is very cute and properly sassy. Great dirty fun with a novel idea... 80%
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Fans of the romance genre might enjoy this affair because it moves precisely within the boundaries that they are accustomed to, and it is additionally seasoned with humor, although the kind that we have seen and heard many times before. Katherine Heigl, in her professional position, possesses an excessive amount of social naivety, and Gerard Butler is slightly cheeky and nonconformist, but only enough so that the film does not risk any category of inaccessibility and, God forbid, does not deviate from the mainstream. Overall impression: 40%.
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If you are aware of what you are getting into before you buy your ticket, you won’t be disappointed. You have to know that it’s going to follow the old genre rules from the trailer and the only crucial question of the evening is whether the chemistry of the central couple will work. In this case, I give it both thumbs up because Butler is enjoying his macho character as much as Katherine Heigl is wonderfully natural and charming. The jokes were full of sexual remarks, and who cares about the shallow innuendos? I laughed with the whole movie theater and wished from the bottom of my heart for the two of them to succeed in the end. In a slight confusion of the senses, I give it a pure four "real" orgasms... ehm, stars. :)
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I can't help it, but I only have good feelings associated with this film. Yes, I like Gerard, there's nothing I can do about it, but I found the comedy entertaining, and the chemistry between the characters absolutely great. I know the rating is somewhat exaggerated, but I had a great time watching it, and that's the main thing I expected from the film. For that reason, I'm giving it a high rating because I actually remember this romantic comedy quite well, which isn't always the case.
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