The Ugly Truth
In this battle-of-the-sexes comedy, Katherine Heigl plays an uptight TV producer desperate to get a man.
Directed by Robert Luketic
(R)
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Another case of opposites attracting
The Ugly Truth is “all ugly, no truth,” said Richard Corliss in Time. In this battle-of-the-sexes comedy, Katherine Heigl plays an uptight TV producer desperate to get a man. So she seeks advice from her show’s boorish commentator (Gerard Butler), who has a Cro-Magnon take on dating. Written by three women and directed by a man, the film could have been a 21st-century, tell-it-like-it-is take on romance, but instead it winds up an “unplanned essay in misogyny.” When not being bullied by her supposed love interest, Heigl delivers “witless” banter, said Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune. Aside from the raunchy sex jokes, the film “feels about 150 years out of date.” It’s as if the filmmakers were determined to set the women’s movement back several decades, said Leah Rozen in People. The Ugly Truth settles for stereotypes instead of capturing how men and women truly interact today. Indeed, the only truth revealed is that “making a successful romantic comedy is even harder” than finding true love.
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