2.0
out of 100
Metascore®Generally unfavorable reviews Based on a weighted average of all critic review scores.
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The Ugly Truth is an arch, contrived, entirely predictable romantic comedy assembled with sufficient audience-friendly elements to put it over as both a good girls' night attraction and a date-night lure raunchy enough to leave couples in the right mood afterward.
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The Ugly Truth isn't fizzy and fun -- it's vacuously snappy.
The comedy bogs down in relentless predictability and the puzzling overuse of naughty words.
A romantic comedy depends, of course, on the chemistry between the leads, and here the film is more successful. Both Heigl and Butler find the appeal in very flawed characters.
Despite its appealing stars, The Ugly Truth is a charmless romantic comedy.
A cynical, clumsy, aptly titled attempt to cross the female-oriented romantic comedy with the male-oriented gross-out comedy that is interesting on several levels, none having to do with cinema.
If the movie had even a moment of freshness or wit, one honest laugh. It doesn't--and that's the ugly truth.
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Chick flick for people who hate chicks.
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