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Jul242009
Friday, July 24, 2009 at 2:16AM Movie Review - 'The Ugly Truth'
| The Ugly Truth
Starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler  |
Why would a movie that's so mediocre, and had very little chance to be much more than
that from the word go, resort to calling itself The Ugly Truth?
Does it get any easier to make puns than that? Why not just call it You've Seen All This Before, But
Done Much Better and be done with it?
There's nothing here but what you expect. The characters are derivative, the actors are bored, and the only surprise about the script is that the writers were proud enough of
their work to register it with the Writers Guild.
The dice being rolled here are essentially that audiences will flock to see Katherine
Heigl and Gerard Butler in a romantic
comedy. Butler is not in his element here, and in my opinion, he seems uncomfortable in this film, playing
a chauvinist who tries to teach hopelessly single Heigl the real story behind relationships and why men
and women are the way they are, particularly during courtship.
It is not the most believable plot device to have Katherine Heigl unable to find a man, and this movie
would probably work a lot better with less physically attractive lead actors, or at least one of them. The
only reason the movie can get away with it to the slim degree it does is because both characters work in
television, which is at least as bad about its looksism as the film industry.
In a battle of the sexes, Heigl and Butler would work well together; she's independent and sexy and he's
ruggedly handsome and all that. But a battle of the sexes, by definition, can't work when one or both of
them are operating at a disadvantage. That's why Heigl's string of bad luck with men doesn't help the
characters. If they were both overachievers, the way the personas of the actors are conveyed publicly,
this could have been a fairly entertaining movie.
Reader Comments (5)
"Why not just call it You've Seen All This Before, But Done Much Better and be done with it? "
That was actually the working title and literally means The Ugly Truth as translated from sanskrit, true story.
Hey, Robert Luketic,
You sound like an AFC (Average Frustated Chump).
Butler's character is dead right in the movie..."Women that want a relationship should get on the stairmaster!"
The good thing about this moive is it shows that "nice " gets you nowhere in the relationship game.
The Ugly Truth actually is that we men ARE visual creatures. When we look at a woman for the first time, we are wondering how she would look like naked.
This movie could be a surprise hit, but not for "Nice Guys' like you ,whom can't handle the truth.
To James, I think you're just a devolved nitwit. Yes, visual attractiveness is nice and all that, but for a good number of us it means jack squat if they open their mouths and let their unintelligent drivel spray all over the floor.
To put it in simpler terms for you, GTFO, you fail.
Hey, John..errr, I mean chump.
I can't help it if you are a homo or a emasculated wimp.
One of my fave movie, watched it for the nth times. Gerard Butler is one of the versatile actor nowadays. Awesome team up and lovely couple. Both sexy and hot. ;)