The Ugly Truth (2009)

I love this movie so much

Great Film overall

Absolutely Brilliant!

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Hilarious movie I can watch over and over, and still laugh! Gerard Butler is amazing! Love, love, love him! Too many haters on this site! It's a comedy! So calm down with the PC and enjoy the laugh!

I mean sure, it's a big, fat, moist ball of cliches, but despite the opinions of the current social climate hypocritical language & intent nazis, it's fricking hilarious, smart, charming and a subtly and nearly flawless examination and commentary on the interaction between romantic and potential romantic partners. The leads, Heigl & Butler have genuine chemistry and the affection between the two is apparent quickly. They are both a complete surprise to each other, proving again that it's lunacy and incredibly shallow to judge a book by it's cover. Yeah, the dialogue is raw. Once upon a time so was the reality. Social change is needed, and as a son, nephew, cousin, brother and father, any abuse directed at a woman/girl enrages me and compels violence in my heart. The #MeToo movement, in it's intent and heart is long overdue but is being undermined by extremists of a different sort than the standard issue creep. I'm not going to point fingers but I'm certain that everyone knows of what I speak. It's tragic that a significant portion of males are misogynistic toolbags and have no business being anywhere near anyone let alone a creature as complicated and wonderful as your average female walking amongst us. It's dangerous and emotionally and psychologically crippling to see the world in black and white. You automatically lower your potential for growth through basic human interaction immediately by limiting the field, platonically and romantically. We need to make sure that policies and attitudes are in place to insure that the abuses of the past cannot be repeated and although it's challenging it can and hopefully will be done. In lockstep with that change there needs to be social dialogue between everyone who might be reasoned with that it couldn't hurt us all to recover some of our humor and find a balance between keeping the scumbags at bay and yet also not being too rigid and paranoid that you make yourself unable to enjoy a joke, have a sense of humor. This film isn't perfect but it's a simplistic role model for that balance and quite frankly I miss the girls I used to be friends with, amazing ladies that gave as good as they got and actually usually got the best of men in our hilarious verbal light saber duals. Interesting, intelligent, sharp women and girls who wouldn't take crap from anyone and could easily handle your basic everyday creep and use their remarkable wit and words to make him regrets his shallowness and ignorance and hopefully felt inspired to do the work to be able to engage with the opposite sex or any potential partners with respect, empathy and sometimes crass and vulgar silliness providing everyone with mutually beneficial laughs in an ever darkening and stupid world. See the movie!! Lighten up!! Fight for what's right but stop taking yourselves so seriously because you're missing out on a complete and fulfilling experience with another person by employing a linear unforgiving baseline of expectations to and for your relationships. We need to smack the creeps down every time, so hard they never come back but we also very much need each other and need to enjoy each other and hopefully have some genuine if not always clean laughs along the way. The Ugly Truth is funny and if you don't laugh then I kinda think that maybe it's not the movie that's rude and wrong headed, it's you.

There were some authentically funny moments in this movie on the dynamic equilibrium between work's demands and love's nature. The romance between the two lead roles stayed tasteful and followed some interesting sequences. Metrics driven professional relationships, dating, romance, and comedy interplayed through the story. Most of the sets illustrated a simple, up scale, chic Sacramento lifestyle. This story's humor blended physical and verbal romantic satire and situational comedy. Katherine Heigl boldly pushed the limits of acting during an important impromptu dinner scene. She and her co-cast primarily delivered a tasteful comedy while the script's more romantic elements naturally developed.

This movie was the sort of movie I started watching because it was late at night, there was nothing else on and you found out in the opening credits that Gerard Butler was starring in the movie, so I gave it ago. By the end of the film I don't think I've ever laughed so much for a movie in a long time. Gerard Butler gave a surprisingly brilliant comedy performance and a great American accent that if you didn't know, you wouldn't realise at all that he is Scottish in real life and quite the Scottish accent too. Since "300" (which I think is one of his greatest acting achievements), Gerard has really shined in the film industry revealing his acting talent in big films like "RocknRolla" and "How to train your Dragon", performing a variety of characters and now this film. The main actress of the film Katherine Heigl (one of those big actresses who I don't know, but my parents do for some reason) gave an equally talented performance, making it great casting for a comedy duet display. This is a film that if you saw it on paper, you wouldn't think to watch it but 'The Ugly Truth' is so crudely funny, it's good to watch with not just witty comedy, but also a glowing romantic story.