The Ugly Truth

Women are from Venus and Men are from Mars. Oh… and surprise everybody! Men are also after sex!- Such are the premises of this screwball comedy.
Katherine Heigl stars as control freak Abby, a career minded news producer (much like Heigl’s uptight anchorwoman in Knocked Up btw), who nurtures conventional, idealistic, romantic notions about relationships. Chauvinist and men-are-after-sex-proponent Mike Chadway (Gerard Butler) enters her life when she is forced to produce his show, The Ugly Truth, and an amusing battle of the sexes begins as Mike bets Abby that he can help her win over her gorgeous, “perfect on paper” (and on her checklist) neighbor- if she follows The Rules (so to speak) of his playbook. Yes, it’s an ugly truth, the characters are more caricatures than deeply developed characters, and there are no big revelations about love or about relationships in this movie. But the real Ugly Truth is that Hollywood makes very few laugh-out-loud from start to finish and hold-your-sides funny movies. The great news is, The Ugly Truth IS one of those few.