There is a formula that about 99% of all romantic comedies follow. Two people start out not knowing each other, many times when they first meet, they actually hate each other, they are forced to spend time together, see the true, inner beauty of the person, fall for each other, something happens where they "break up" or drift apart, then, in the end, they let love take over their heart, and, after some grand gesture, they live happily ever after. We all know that is how romantic comedies are, but that's not why girls make their boyfriends watch them. It's because they are funny enough to make you laugh, have beautiful people in them, and have happy endings. I personally watch them because I secretly hope that I will find one that will make me say, "Wow, didn't see that one coming!" Don't really think it's happened yet, but I keeping up hope.
The Ugly Truth follows this formula to a T. Don't get mad if you think i gave away the ending because we all know how it will end. That, once again, is one of the reasons that we watch them. Katherine Heigl plays Abby. An uptight, anal retentive, controlling, obsessive television producer (she seems to have mastered playing a bitch....hmmmm, makes you wonder...). She is so controlling that she brings a check list of talking points on a date. Gerard Butler (King Leonidus from 300...in a chick flick. i know! so sad! but he was also in P.S. I Love You, for the ladies) plays Mike. The host of The Ugly Truth, a show, which Abby's company picks up and she has to produce, on which he tells "the ugly truth" about what men and women really want. He's rude and crude, but makes a lot of very valid points. Well, if you follow the formula, these two don't like each other, but Mike is so sure about his methods that he convinces Abby to let him to help her land her dream guy using his methods. So through the course of the courtship, Mike and Abby begin to see the real person behind both of their facades. There's some kissing, some heartbreak, and then a super big loving gesture that makes all the girls swoon. Blah blah blah.
Now, I'm not blah blahing because I think I'm too cool to admit that I enjoy chick flicks every now and then. I did laugh at a couple of parts in this movie. And I did find myself smiling at the end. But I mean, I could have told you exactly what was going to happen at the beginning of every scene, which after a while, takes away some of the movie watching fun. I'm going to say this movie was bad, like I often say, its an okay cuddle session movie. Katherine Heigl is beautiful, Gerard Butler is his roguishly handsome self. There are some humorous supporting characters and actual on hilarious scene at a dinner table. But overall, as far as Rom Com's go, this one was kind of lacking. Rent it if you've run out of other cuddle session movies, otherwise wait until its on HBO or something.
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