The truth is pretty

Rating: Null/10 (10 October 2012)

At the start of the movie, one of several terrible songs is played. These songs represent a musical style that is apparently either enjoyed by Katherine Heigl or by her fans.
Abby is the uptight yet attractive producer of a morning news program, though in recent years the program has become mostly fluff, something Abby does not approve of.
While she is watching TV at home, Abby's cat D'Artagnan accidentally switches the channel and Abby finds herself watching Mike, a man with outrageous (though not unusual for men) opinions about relationships between men and women. It could be worse; one of his competitors says things like "No really means yes".
Mike takes calls from viewers, so Abby calls and gives him a piece of her mind. Mike also figures out what Abby's ideal man would be.
The next morning Abby is shocked to find Mike at her TV station as the newest member of the cast of her TV show. His segment will be called "The Ugly Truth".
D'Artagnan helps Abby find her ideal man. When the kitty gets trapped up in a tree, Abby must go rescue him. When Abby gets hurt trying to get out of the tree, she is rescued by her new neighbor Colin, a doctor who is everything Abby wants. Abby turns into a giggling teenager. The next day at work, she is her uptight self again, but with prettier hair.
Mike helps Abby prepare to date Colin. She needs to do a lot to make herself pretty, including buying new clothes. At this point it becomes clear that although Abby absolutely despises Mike, we surely believe that by the end of the movie she will end up with either Mike or Colin.
Meanwhile, Mike does so well it is possible his show will go national and Abby will have to find a replacement.
Katherine Heigl does a very good job. At first, she is too hard to like and I find myself not even caring what will happen to her. She's not even good looking. Later, she is gorgeous and even easy to like. The fact that she can go from uptight rhymes-with-witch to a giggling teenager helps a lot.
Gerard Butler is a challenge to like (I would have preferred a Tim Allen type) but he's just right for the role. As a guy I would find myself liking his wild ideas on women. But even I found myself sort of hoping he would get the girl rather than Colin.
I know Nick Searcy best as the Frank Burns type head of security on the time travel series "Seven Days". Here, he is much easier to like and does quite a good job as Abby's boss.
When I saw this movie it had a TV-PG rating with a D for dialogue, though some of the sexual humor is quite potent, and I would definitely not call this a family film. I did like one gag involving a product one would buy at a store selling sex toys. Seeing this movie helped me get a joke I heard recently on TV's "Rules of Engagement".
Of course, the movie follows a formula, but I like the formula. The challenges are silly and we do ride an emotional roller-coaster, but everything will be all right in the end, right?
I actually think the truth is quite pretty.