The Ugly Truth – Review

Romantic comedies are easy to sell to the general public.  Women love them and men love women, so ticket sales are a given if the flick has a few names attached and can generate a few laughs.  The Ugly Truth fits snugly into this category like toys in Jenna Jameson’s toy box, it has a solid cast attached, and it delivers consistent laughs throughout its 97 minute runtime.

The flick is about Abby, a morning show producer played by Katherine Heigl, who for some reason can’t get a man.  She adheres to a list of criteria that she believes the perfect man should have if she is to move forward into a relationship with him.  She’s a control freak that doesn’t understand what it means to throw caution to the wind.

Then her world is turned upside down when her boss decides to hire cock-strong relationship expert Mike (Gerard Butler), the host of a vulgar call in show.  The minute he sets foot into Abby’s life everything changes.  He clues her into to the fact that she really has no idea how to land a guy, even though she’s smoking hot and shouldn’t have trouble in that department.  Meanwhile, as the flick develops the two opposites somehow fall in love, but don’t know how to tell one another.

Both Heigl and Butler dial in strong performances as well as plenty of laughs.  I was extremely surprised by how funny the flick actually is.  I caught myself laughing out loud on more than one occasion, which is not something that usually happens during a romantic comedy.  The film is pretty formulaic but it was a really strong date movie.  My wife and I see a lot of these date movies and usually I don’t enjoy them, but this flick didn’t irritate me at all.

If your looking for a date movie that doesn’t suck I’d definitely recommend The Ugly Truth, it isn’t a bad way to pass two hours.  It wasn’t perfect but it was positively a killer date movie.

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