The Ugly Truth

It's a battle of sexes between Katherine Heigl (Grey's Anatomy/Knocked Up) and Gerard Butler (300) in "The Ugly Truth."

In the film, Abby Richter (Heigl) is a romantically challenged TV morning show producer whose struggling search for the perfect man has left her hopelessly single.

Despite all that, Heigl learns that her show is losing ratings and her boss challenges her to come up with ideas to save her show.

In a last stitch effort, her boss hires a brash and hardcore TV personality Mike Chadway (Butler), who on his public access show spills the ugly truth on what makes men and women tick.

When Abby meets the man of her dreams, Chadway dares to run a gauntlet of romantic exploits to determine whose romantic methods are the most successful.

Sure this movie has the usual plot, of a date movie, the two lead characters at first hate each other, but slowly throughout the film they begin to fall in love, and that's how the Ugly Truth ends up.

As good as Heigl was in Knocked Up, she was quite unlikeable in this role, as the love starved Abby and Butler, personally I think he is much better suited as an action star, he tried a little too hard in his performance to be comedic and push that offensive boundary with his character's views on men and women.

I'm not saying the movie was bad, there was some high points, especially the dinner scene with Heigl, Butler and the network executives, trust me fellas it's worth seeing. But after seeing The Proposal which actually was a pretty good movie, the Ugly Truth pales in comparison.

That's my review, now check what a fellow critic thought of The Ugly Truth.

Next time, on the Reel Revue, a look back at the FIVE REEL club, films I've given Five Reels to over the last two years.