Stupid critics, this flick is a throwback & it's hilarious.

Rating: 10/10 (16 April 2018)

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.