Love Hate Relationships

Rating: 10/10 (7 September 2012)

I am currently taking a class where we are asked to watch many varieties of movies and recently a friend of mine recommended I watch the movie, "The Ugly Truth", a romantic comedy and I must say this movie is by far my favorite from this genre of movies. The films main characters consist of a successful women TV producer named Abby Richter (Katherine Hiegl) who recently got news that her TV station was getting horrible reviews and if they didn't go up soon they would have to cancel the show. It was then that the Abby's boss decided to bring in a fresh new piece to their show which brings us to Mike Chatway (Gerard Butler) who at the time worked for a late night call in show giving advice to women in his opinion of what men want. Here is where Abby first sees Mike and winds up calling in to tell him off because she thinks his vulgar opinions are obscured. It is then the next day that it is announced that the new addition to the show Abby produces is going to him. It is here where the theme begins. The theme of this movie is the battle of man versus women. All throughout the movie these two battle it out with Mike with his charm and vulgarity and Abby with her intellectual smarts and control freak personality. It is then when Abby meets a guy who she believes is perfect and when I mentioned control freak earlier she has a check list of the perfect guy for her. This is when Mike comes into play and shows Abby how to win the guys over or in other words shows her what guys really want. While Abby was hesitant to think that Mike even had the least bit of clue what he was talking about in the end he was right. Mike winds up coaching Abby all the way into her dream guys arms and in this process his vulgar wit and charm and her smart snappy comebacks keep you laughing the whole way through.