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1.5
Movie Review Movie Review The Ugly Truth D Movie Review The Ugly Truth D D The Ugly Truth Director Robert Luketic Runtime 95 minutes Rating R Cast Kat ..
Av Club
1.0
Taken as a whole, The Ugly Truth is much like its orgasms: phony and unsatisfying.
Austin Chronicle
1.5
But director Robert Luketic (Monster In Law, Legally Blonde) mistakes clumsy jokes about masturbation and oral sex for truly shocking or even honest i ..
Screen Daily
2.5
At its conclusion, I am forced to report, it provides abundant evidence of my belief that a good movie has rarely featured a hot air balloon.
Rogerebert
2.0
Its not tremendously bad, but its entirely unoriginal, which is almost worse.
Cinema Blend
1.0
You cant fault her: A warrior in the battle of the sexes, Mike revels in his caveman status.
Ny Daily News
1.0
I know this is supposed to be a comedy, but the film does not even have a single moment of truth or substance.
JoBlo
1.3
The minimum you ask of a romantic comedy is that it leaves you with a mildly pleasant sense that deserving pretty people can find true love.
The Globe And Mail
3.5
The Spy Who Dumped Me is an action comedy withwell, it has action.
Philly
1.3
At some point somebody in Hollywood decided that all romantic comedies would involve a meeting between subject A, who is neurotic and tightly wound, a ..
Combust Ible Celluloid
2.5
Theres nothing new or remotely inventive about this battle of the sexes romp.
Usa Today
1.5
But its nothing special.Youve seen this sort of thing before, youll see it again, its nothing to get worked up about.
Eric Ds Nider
4.0
Abby isnt much happier in her love life, due in part to her control issues, and is thus appalled when she happens to come across a cable access show c ..
Screen It
1.0
Hard to know what to hate more in this: Gerard Butlers smug shock jock, whose boorish sexist claptrap (The Ugly Truth) is allegedly the toast of dayti ..
Independent
2.5
While the cast is watchable, the film simply has nothing original to say.
Shadows On The Wall
3.5
Its not enough to describe Dead Man as simply an anti western; its an iconoclastic deconstruction of late 19th Century American values and mores, many ..
Pop Matters
1.5
As a result, the films central romance flips and flops like a dying fish.
News Day
2.5
Hollywood comedies have steadily been raising the R rated bar, and I suppose theres no turning back.
Cs Monitor
2.5
Like most women in movies right now, Katherine Heigl was born in the wrong decade.She has the misfortune to work in a time when her business values wo ..
Boston
2.0
In The Ugly Truth, however, Heigls main exemplars seem to be Doris and her virgins.Her stitched up TV producer, Abby Richter, has a great talent for i ..
Smh
2.0
No amount of effort will create chemistry if its not thereand its not there.
Mountain X
4.4
Somewhere, amid an ocean of self help dating tomes like the ubiquitous Hes Just Not That Into You and Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, the bat ..
Star Tribune
1.0
But every moment of mucky farce fellating a hot dog at the baseball, falling out of a tree into someones crotch, a long incident with some vibrating k ..
Guardian
1.0
Produced by its female star (and involving as much personal embarrassment for her as Sandra Bullock provided for herself as producer star of last mont ..
Guardian
1.0
Below is a Mini Review from Cineman Syndicate for one movie opening on Friday, July 24, 2009.THE UGLY TRUTH Katherine Heigl was better off with Seth R ..
Reel Talk Reviews
0.0
The Ugly Truth: Definitely the most woman hating movie this year The Ugly Truth (15) The Ugly Truth is even nastier and not at all enjoyable.Its about ..
Daily Mail
2.8
Perhaps because its less stylized than those films, The Ugly Truth isnt fizzy and fun its vacuously snappy.
Ew
2.0
Abby has unrealistic ideas about romance but sets about finding it with, quite literally, a shopping list.
Empire
1.0
Susan Grangers review of The Ugly Truth (Columbia Pictures/Sony) To call this a chick flick is insulting to those of us of the female gender who enjoy ..
Susang Ranger
2.0
Heigl and Butler have enough chemistry to make a semi scorching couple, but the movies pluses pretty much end there.
Common Sense Media
0.5
All Dick Jokes Are Not Created Equal: This here is a saucy R rated romantic comedy.
Movies
1.0
But if youre looking for a rom com with a higher IQ and an almost obsessive aim to charm its audience, youd do better with (500) Days of Summer, which ..
Time
2.5
Heigl is an old Hollywood style beauty with a remarkably expressive face and a talent for physical comedy, and Butler delivers his nasty lines with a ..
Slant Magazine
2.0
Among his handy advice is a tip to wear vibrating panties and you can guess the kind of embarrassing hilarity that they cause.
Express
3.8
The latest horror thriller romp from Warner Bros. and Dark Castle may look like a remake like many of their earlier efforts, but surely rips off many ..
Mr Brown Movies
2.5
There is a reason Heigl keeps getting recruited for movies like this.
Bullz-Eye
2.8
The film is photographed with the usual brightly lit yet uninventive shots featured in the genre.
Reeling Reviews
4.5
The Ugly Truth (review) The Pig and the Prig Im trying to figure out when romantic comedies turned into lets throw two really despicable and unpleasan ..
Flickfilosopher
3.1
Hollywood, it seems, has lost the knack of how to make a good romantic comedy.
ReelViews
1.0
But damned if it isnt the most uninspired unfunny unsexy sitcom rip off to grace theaters in recent memory.
Hollywood
5.0
So my advice is to ignore the trailers and come see this film if you want some good laughs.
Tony Medley
2.5
I liked the Gerard Butler half of The Ugly Truth; the Katherine Heigl half, not so much.
Aisle Seat
2.5
The end result is an utterly tired romcom that admittedly benefits from Butlers mere presence, although its clear from the get go that the actor deser ..
Reel Film
2.5
Do I really have to go through it Cant we all just rewatch Woman of the Year instead
Nj
3.0
Another conflict I found in this film is how honest I can be about it.To a certain degree, this will fill the niche of the chick flick in the theaters ..
7M Pictures
1.9
While the adult content elicits most of the movies laughs, its often a poor fit with the characters adolescent behaviour.
The Star
2.5
UGLY TRUTH, THE SYNOPSIS: Abby Richter (Katherine Heigl) is an ambitious morning talk show producer who is good at finding solutions to most things ex ..
Urban Cine File
2.5
The film plays on the cliche that all successful professional women must be emotionally insecure.
The Age
2.0
Its the way it gets there that is sometimes funny but often downright piggish.
Maki At The Movies
3.0
Theres no denying that Heigl and Butler do the best with what theyre given and husband and wife anchor team Georgia (Hines) and Larry (Higgins) provid ..
Digital Spy
0.0
Romantic comedies are an increasingly debased genre, but few recent Hollywood products have been anywhere near as crass and contrived as The Ugly Trut ..
New York Post
2.0
The big shame, though, is that Heigl must wade through a string of second rate gags.
Abc
2.0
The only surprise here is that the misogynistic screenplay was written by three females.
Nz Herald
2.5
The Sacramento locale is offbeat enough to be a breath of fresh air compared to the typical onslaught of Los Angeles and Manhattan based movie setting ..
Dustin Put Man
4.5
Like being ordered to have long hair and smile on stage, but wondering how to smile with a trombone in your mouth.Or repeatedly told youre not good en ..
News Blaze
3.1
Aside from the last minute resolution which subtracts both cinematically and thematically, the film moves along well enough and provides plenty of not ..
Ross Anthony
1.0
Instead, the humor is all on the level of little kids who think its funny to talk dirty.Guess what
Hollywood And Fine
1.2
Yes ladies, give up your standards and cast aside your dreams, and you too can enjoy the primal throb of a loudmouth dimwit fresh from 100 failed rela ..
Brian Or Ndorf
3.1
Ultimately, Shrink manages to be a mildly engaging ensemble drama with decent performances, but it suffers from an overstuffed, contrived and often te ..
Nyc Movie Guru
2.5
Katherine Heigl has made a nice movie career for herself playing unlucky in love, so the plot of The Ugly Truth should be no big surprise.
Js Online
2.5
If youve never seen a romantic comedy, or havent seen one in a long time, you might like it, there are one or two decent gags, which is more than a lo ..
ComingSoon
2.0
Synopsis Knocked Ups Katherine Heigl plays an unlucky in love TV producer who becomes the reluctant student of her chauvinistic daytime show pundit.
Sky
2.0
But all involved in its making and every audience member who pays for the privilege deserve much better.
Sbs
1.0
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Entertainment Times Online ..
3.0
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Entertainment Times Online ..
3.1
Rule One: Never criticize your man.Rule Two: Always laugh at his jokes.
Chron
1.0
Having sat through rolls and rolls of this dreadful sub genre of rom com, I now feel confident enough to pitch my own.Its called You Lousy Shitheads D ..
The Shiz Nit
2.5
The movie has its cute moments, and Heigl and Butler deliver some good R rated laughs along the way, mostly compliments of the shock value of certain ..
No La
1.0
But believing either is a trembling, loveable little fawn inside is about as easy as swallowing Rudolf whole.
Metro
2.0
I previously mentioned in my embarrassing rave of Confessions of a Shopaholic that I can appreciate a cliche ridden romcom if it hits all the appropri ..
Streaming Quickflix
2.5
The Answer Man Twenty years ago, Arlen Faber (Jeff Daniels) wrote the jauntilyif ungrammaticallytitled Me and God.
Wsj
1.9
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Tiny Url
3.8
This must see date movie provides valuable insights into the mysteries of what makes men and women tick.
Entertainment Spectrum
1.5
Exactly the kind of movie Hes Just Not That Into You was warning you about.
Can Mag
2.0
Butler has a funny way with a line and a natural comic virility, something Heigls previous leads lacked. But they dont click as a couple, perhaps beca ..
Orlando Sentinel
5.0
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Ny Press
2.8
Everybody loves a good romantic comedy. Unfortunately, nobody gets one in The Ugly Truth, a crude movie that wont be a surprise for anyone who sees wh ..
Week In Rewind
1.5
The Ugly Truth is two movies for the price of one, but dont get too excited. Youre not getting twice the entertainment, just twice as ripped off.
Brandon Fibbs
3.0
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Jo Reviews
2.5
But this opposites attract comedy is wildly uneven: There are long stretches of down time, and some of the humor is so crude even nasty that it backfi ..
Jackson Ville
1.9
Maybe Im just jaded when it comes to a worthwhile romantic comedy.
The Movie Kit
1.3
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Kam Williams
2.5
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Heart London
2.0
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