Crude, cute, funny...you'll howl and love the chemistry

Rating: 8/10 (25 August 2009)

The Ugly Truth is quite simply hilarious. Any comedy that doesn't just make me laugh but at least once during the course of the film makes me howl into tears deserves seeing for anyone. The Ugly Truth is the perfect 'R' rated comedy. There is plenty of crude jokes, plenty of sexually hilarious moments, and it never overdoes either of these things which is a customary mistake for the Judd Apatow/Will Ferrell comedy world. Certainly the chemistry for the cast helps carry the plot amazingly. The entire character of Mike Chadway is brilliant and only the perfect actor could carry it and pull it off. Chadway as a character is a complete pig. The lines he delivers, the things he gets caught in are completely sexist and disgusting and yet the story writers had to make sure that Chadway became a lovable and charismatic guy that men wanna be because he's a good guy, and women love him because he changed and he's hot. So the film makers managed to nail the perfect guy for the role and him and the rest of the cast carry off the comedy absolutely perfectly. There is a little bit of every type of comedy...physical comedy (which I love when performed well), one liners, dry humor and hilarious double entendre comedy.
The perfect guy I mentioned? Well that is 300 star Gerard Butler. How versatile is this guy? He is the perfect pig and even while he's being a pig, you love the guy. Then you love him even more as the story unfolds and he changes and falls in love. He is charismatic and hilarious. The beautiful Katherine Heigl plays high powered TV executive Abby Richter. Heigl might be concerned about being type casted on Grey's Anatomy but her roles in film as of late don't help matters as she usually plays the same powerful but scatter brained woman looking for love. Still Heigl is adorable enough to pull it off and her chemistry in this film works and best of all her and Butler are phenomenal together and have the perfect banter back and forth that keeps the movie going. Eric Winter is the object of Heigl's affections. Unfortunately for Winter his character has virtually no depth. He is supposed to look good, play into Heigl's comedy and do nothing else and he does exactly that which doesn't fare well for an actor. The supporting cast all do great but no one person particularly stands out or does any more than the two leads.
Given the experience coming from director Robert Luketic. In particular I am referring to his original three films that embody romantic comedy. The adorable classic Legally Blonde, the zany and more intelligent Win A Date With Tad Hamilton and finally the (in my opinion) completely under rated Monster-In-Law. All three of those films have something uniquely common with The Ugly Truth. Character. Luketic obviously has a way of bringing out the best in a character and you just really relate and you feel like you know them and care about them making everything they do more entertaining and essentially more funny. The Ugly Truth is truly the perfect date movie because guys and girls will love it!! Guys will love Butler in all his masculine glory being as filthy as possible and the crude humor is the best!! And girls will love Heigl's strong female lead who loves guys and essentially changes her man into Mr. Perfect. Check out The Ugly Truth for a good time!! 8/10