GERARD BUTLER KATHERINE HEIGL ERIC WINTER

This
is NOT the romantic comedies of yesterday--the ones made with Doris Day
and Rock Hudson or Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy or Fred Astaire
and Ginger Rogers. This isn't even the romantic comedies of just a few
years ago with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks. This is the romantic comedy of
today where the men AND women use four letter, or more, curse words not
to mention both sexes talking about all the parts of both sexes. It is
where the men are bare butted and the women use visible vibrators.

"The
Ugly Truth" is more vulgar, more in your face, than romantic or comedy.
The tried and true formula of romantic comedies for the past 50 years
is followed, along with the profanity of today.

Yes,
they meet cute. Yes, they dislike each other from the beginning. Yes,
she is his boss. Yes, he loves dogs and she has a cat. Yes, there are
misunderstandings and yes, they fall in love and live happily ever
after. Nope, no spoilers here as you know where the picture is going
from the first frame.

Katherine Heigl is beautiful, though I find there is something, I don't know quite
what, that is off putting about her, (maybe seeing and being in  love
with a dead person in her TV show?) Gerard Butler doesn't have the body
he had in "300" and looks a little puffy but he plays the 'bad' boy
perfectly. Eric Winter does have the 6 pack stomach and the buns of
steel, showing both sides of his 'personality'. Katherine does have
chemistry with both Butler and Winter and there are a few sharp lines
and a smile here and there.

It seems as
if the writers of the screenplay, 3 women, are trying to prove they can
be as vulgar, low class, dirty and crass as male writers! The male
director, Robert Luketic, follows their lead with many close ups of busts, butts and vulgar poses.

As a lover of romantic comedies and romantic pairings in movies it is becoming hard to find
either let alone both. Adding rude and crude words, trying to show how politically  incorrect they can be and/or showing body parts in awkward situations does not a romantic comedy make.

Skip this one.