The Ugly Truth 男女生了沒

At a floundering Sacramento TV station, Abby (Katherine Heigl as a bodacious workaholic producer with a stick up her ... ahem) can't seem to keep her Nielsen ratings or her dating life steady. But what's this? Egad! A fly in the ointment! The TV station picks up a relationship advice spot hosted by the rakish, unshaven, semi-offensive Mike (Gerard Butler).

Mike uses dirty words on air, Abby hates Mike, Mike doesn't believe in love, Abby doesn't believe in lust, Abby wants to date some doctor, Mike helps Abby date doctor, unlikely friendship (and something more?) ensues, vibrating lingerie is purchased, etc.

“The Ugly Truth“ might be the first film in which a woman's yanking out of her hair extensions signals a true emotional climax. And it's just this sort of off-kilter quality that makes this script more impressive than its fluffier cousins. One senses a gleefully dark, ironic sensibility lurking in the minds of the film's three female screenwriters.

Under the direction of Robert Luketic (“Legally Blonde”), “The Ugly Truth” is pleasingly glossy, refreshingly snarky and startlingly sexy. It's (duh) no art film, no soulful indie flick, no “When Harry Met Sally ...” for that matter. But when Mike advises Abby to be “the saint and the sinner, the librarian and the stripper,” how can the hardened, rom-com-hating Thinking Woman not bark a hearty “Hah!”? It's shallow and fleeting, candylike and summery. But there is no shame in that. And if you refuse to see it now, you'll see it on some airplane someday. And you'll watch it. And that's the ugly truth.

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