...the (moderately) raunchy rom-com! And friends and movie buffs, it works wonderfully well.You already know what it's about. Rom-coms have one basic pattern, the one that's propelled approximately half the fiction in human history: 1) Boy meets girl. 2) Boy loses girl. 3) Boy gets girl - albeit with laughs. This one conforms in all the usual respects, but we mustn't stop there."The Ugly Truth" provides more sincerely funny moments per unit time than I would have dreamed possible. Gerard Butler and Katherine Heigl prove to have wonderful screen chemistry. Each one's presence is enhanced by the presence of the other. What's unique and refreshing about the movie is how artfully it weaves, in and between and around the laughs, a poignant insight about love: how BLEEP!ing irrational it is.Yes, some men are looking for T'n'A. Yes, some women carry checklists to which a suitor must conform to be seriously considered. But the wildly, totally absurd, delightful truth about it all, as Mike and Abby illustrate for us, is one we should all bear in mind as we navigate our personal minefields of the heart:You can't hunt it down, you can't predict it, and you can't rationalize it. Love just is.It's not a "great" movie. It's not "Citizen Kane" or "Casablanca." But you'll love it to death. Bravo!

Going into this for the first time, I honestly didn't know what to expect. Once I sat down to watch it, I was falling off the couch laughing. When it comes to the age-old battle of the sexes, it never gets old. There are storytellers who give a very vague, uneventful image of men and women against each other and then there are those who go right for the throat. "The Ugly Truth" is one of them. Take note: not all guys think alike and not all ladies think alike. It is just that simple. In not so many words, that's what this movie is saying. There could never be a better title than "The Ugly Truth." You cannot go PG or PG-13 with this one. R is the best that it's going to get because you cannot dumb down the relationship with men and women. It doesn't work. If you want something that you can laugh at when you're having a very bad day or just want a movie to keep you feeling good on a regular day, pursue this one. You can watch it over and over and never get tired of it.

There are a lot of things that separate how men and women see relationships. And the end of the movie goes into a question women often ask guys : "Why do you like me?" . The reason is because for women liking a guy usually means he gets x/y of her checklist of requirements. That is why the more relationships a woman has the more requirements she adds to the list and the harder it is to stay with one guy too much. But us men do not really know why we like women: we either do or don't , we are simple like that. There are things we prefer in women true but is not a checklist. We can like a woman that has 0 points on that list and do not like one that has all of them. Women think we want women with career an intelligence but while we do appreciate those they are not important. And that is the ugly truth!!!

The Ugly Truth is a brutal movie with a really stupid storyline that was clearly placed together for comedy but is not at all funny,and most of the jokes in this movie are incredibly sexist to both genders,that what they relied on as being funny for the whole movie,get one gender to insult the opposite gender.While I have liked Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler in previous movies i've seen them in,I just couldn't enjoy them in this,especially Butler's character,he was just irritating and not one bit funny,he's a great serious actor,and he clearly was only in this for the money.All the Ugly Truth wants to be is a comedy and heartwarming,unfortunately in fails on both levels,so I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone.A man who seems to know everything about how relationships work,helps out a news producer struggling with her love life,by teaching her what men want in a woman.