it's for your bean....

Rating: 6/10 (13 August 2010)

In Sacramento, the producer of a morning show Abby Richter is a controller that has a checklist with items about the ideal man for her; however she can not find any man that fulfils her prerequisites.
Her show has problems with the low ratings and the TV direction hires the cynical chauvinist Mike Chadway that hosts the popular and gross mannish show "The Ugly Truth" about what men and women really want in a relationship.
Abby has frictions with Mike and he proposes to help her to get her attractive neighbour Colin that fulfils her checklist; in return she would support him in the show.
Abby dates Colin but when Mike is invited to participate in the Craig Ferguson's Late Late Show in San Francisco, they get closer and fall in love for each other....
what makes this film work in so many ways is butlers absolute dinosaur of a man. we all have a little bit of him in us, but due to our PC lives, we always act differently on a date or in a relationship, which nine times out of ten, always fail because we never feel at ease.
the plot though, is predictable as is the narrative, and you can almost go 3...2...1... to when Butler falls in love with heigel.
get over this little hill, and it's very funny in places, and the chemistry between the two leads is funny and they both bring a little charm to the film.
the supporting cast though are dire, and depend on butler to spoon feed them laughs. when he isn't on screen, the film falters, and knows it.
It's not your average rom-com, it has a lot of bite, which makes it stand head and shoulders above recent same genre films.