Title: The Ugly Truth (2009)Starring: Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler, Eric Winter
Directed By: Robert Luketic
The Ugly Truth is basically a run-of-the-mill romantic comedy with one "x-factor". That being Gerard Butler.
Here, Butler plays a "real man's man", who hosts a late-night cable television show about what men are really thinking. Heigl plays the producer of a network affiliate morning news program, who's forced to take him onboard and adapt her show to his audience. When she meets a super dreamy neighbor, she goes to Butler for advice and coaching on what he really wants in a relationship. Inevitably over the course of their budding friendship, the layers are peeled back one at a time and a romance is born.
It's as by-the-books as you can get with a romantic comedy. It's just another play on Cyrano de Bergerac. It's been duplicated a million times. The only thing that this film has going for it, is how much fun Gerard Butler seems to be having. He's got this charisma that brings the material up a notch or two, and every time he gets to be crude and vulgar, I couldn't help but be sucked in by it. He delivers each of those lines with a silly little smirk, and honestly I had one when I was hearing them.
This is an ALMOST guy-friendly rom-com that I think might surprise some of the people who give it a chance. I don't necessarily recommend it, but call it a passing suggestion. :)
Score: 7/10
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