The Ugly Truth

If you are aware of what you are getting into before you buy your ticket, you won’t be disappointed. You have to know that it’s going to follow the old genre rules from the trailer and the only crucial question of the evening is whether the chemistry of the central couple will work. In this case, I give it both thumbs up because Butler is enjoying his macho character as much as Katherine Heigl is wonderfully natural and charming. The jokes were full of sexual remarks, and who cares about the shallow innuendos? I laughed with the whole movie theater and wished from the bottom of my heart for the two of them to succeed in the end. In a slight confusion of the senses, I give it a pure four "real" orgasms... ehm, stars. :) (10/26/2009)

The beautiful Katherine Heigl, who has the cutest orgasm of all Hollywood actresses, and the quirky Gerald Butler are the only ingredients that somehow distinguish this offbeat romantic romp from a good 70% of its genre peers. We have fun, we relax and Butler's philosophy of life makes us relatively wiser (us guys, that is), but otherwise the ambitions and message of the film are as hopeless as the future of a relationship that puts sex on the back burner. (01/24/2013)

Fans of the romance genre might enjoy this affair because it moves precisely within the boundaries that they are accustomed to, and it is additionally seasoned with humor, although the kind that we have seen and heard many times before. Katherine Heigl, in her professional position, possesses an excessive amount of social naivety, and Gerard Butler is slightly cheeky and nonconformist, but only enough so that the film does not risk any category of inaccessibility and, God forbid, does not deviate from the mainstream. Overall impression: 40%. (05/09/2010)

Katherine shines and Gerard enjoys every juicy line, but the whole studio plot, stupid supporting characters, and actually even the spicy commentary on truth felt like a betrayal compared to what I expected from the trailers, and I had to do my best not to write off the movie at that time. The paradox is that when it slows down, innuendos disappear and romance reaches top speed, I completely melted and thanks to the actors' dramatic talent, I thoroughly enjoyed the last half hour. However, due to higher expectations and striking unevenness of individual scenes, disappointment prevails. (10/22/2009)

An excellent romantic comedy with a great central duo. Gerard Butler is properly cheeky and his sexual innuendos to women carry the whole film. Katherine Heigl is very cute and properly sassy. Great dirty fun with a novel idea... 80% (03/08/2018)