the truth about "the ugly truth"

Rating: 8/10 (21 April 2010)

Every woman in the world wants to know what is going through a guy's mind, right? Well if you're one of those women wondering about the guy's mind, finally here is the movie that gives you insight into that complex mind! I learned so much more from this movie than I ever could have from getting advice from my best friends or from people who have been in relationships before.
Abby (Katherine Heigl) is a producer for a morning show who has this list of qualities that she would like in a man. Mike (Gerard Butler) is this rude TV star on his own show called "The Ugly Truth." Abby's boss ends up hiring Mike to work on the morning show because they need a way to boost their ratings. Abby is absolutely livid about this because she finds Mike to be obnoxious and that he does not understand the idea of relationships at all.
Mike tries to show Abby that he has serious expertise in relationships by helping her land her "perfect" guy. Come on though; is any man or woman ever really perfect? Well apparently Mike's advice is helping boost Abby's love life drastically because she lands this "amazing" guy.
The Ugly Truth is a wonderful portrayal of the actualities of relationships with hilarious memorable lines. Heigl and Butler work so well together that you would actually think it was not a movie and you were watching real life. Their characters really help to balance each other out in their beliefs and their portrayals of the male and female genders. Though I found the movie to be hilarious and even a guy friend of mine said he enjoyed the movie, there were times that it contradicted itself which really bothered me. They showed the truth of relationships but they also showed an exception to what really happens at the end. It was a predictable ending that I did not really enjoy as much as I would have if it was something that was not as classic in a romantic comedy.