The Ugly Truth

Release Date - 7 August 2009

Certificate (UK) - 15

Country - USA

Director - Robert Luketic

Runtime - 96 mins

Starring - Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler

Katherine Heigl plays Abby, a successful female producer of a morning daytime TV show. When her boss recruits Mike (Gerard Butler) for the show for a segment called 'The Ugly Truth' where he offers up his misogynist views on sex and relationships Abby cant stand him and wants rid of him. But his advice instead ends up helping her start a romance with her new neighbour Colin (Eric Winter) but its not too hard to guess what the end result is in this predictable hate-turning-to-love-relationship rom-com.

Unfortunately the com element of this film is slightly flawed. Most of the jokes stem from Mike's crass misogynistic humour, which will appeal much more to men but the average romantic comedy audience is usually more female than male. None of the jokes are particularly clever and Heigl has no real comic timing. The obvious vibrating knicker gag (I'll leave that to your imagination) and frequent swearing have earned it a 15 rating as well which isn't going to help improve audience numbers. Boring, predictable and not especially funny its one for girls to drag the boyfriend to definitely - he'll think hes gonna hate it but will probably end up loving it more than you. It follows the same formula as the Proposal, which is funnier, so if you have the choice I'd suggest the Proposal is the better of the two.