The ugly truth:recensioni

Due recensioni...non del tutto negative!


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Butler almost made me forget a naked Leonidas. Here is the benchmark for charisma and chemistry with a co-star.

No wonder Jennifer Aniston is trying to snare Gerard Butler for all of her future movies. No matter how much Aniston is shoved down our throats she doesn't have the down-to-earth magic of Katherine Heigl.

"The Ugly Truth" has a few things going for it besides the terrific spot-on writing: There is real chemistry between Katherine Heigl as Abby, the producer of a morning TV show in Sacramento, and Gerard Butler as Mike, a sudden sensation on, no doubt, a public access cable TV show he calls "The Ugly Truth".

Here is what I liked about Abby: We are shown exactly why beautiful Abby is not getting laid. She's a know-it-all control freak. She goes out on a blind date with Jim (Kevin Connolly) and has "talking points" printed out. She had a background check done on the guy. And, she's argumentative.

Well, for me, she's "opinionated", but whatever%­u2026

Mike is brought on Abby's program to boost ratings and he does. His blunt approach to women ("Get on a stairmaster" ) is a ratings bonanza. And once Mike finds out that Abby hasn't had sex in over a year, he decides to use her as his "I'm right" project.

Abby has a new neighbor, Colin (Eric Winter). He's gorgeous, straight, and a doctor. With Mike's intensive hands-on help, Abby starts making headway with Colin. Only thing is, she can't be herself but must pretend to be a candidate-wife for Warren Jeffs FLDS.

Only women in the audience will recognize that women wrote the script: Nicole Eastman, Karen McCullah Lutz & Kirsten Smith. Coming home from her failed date with Jim, Abby does what every woman has done without exception. We see her walking to her apartment holding her high heels and wearing her ugly, but sensible, flat shoes.

What woman goes out without 2 pairs of shoes?

Mike is, of course, totally outrageous in his behavior. He has no idea what is not acceptable to say out loud. He's the type of person who invades someone's personal space and doesn't know it. I introduced a new friend and colleague %­u2013 I'll call him Rob - to a retired gynecologist surgeon at a party. Rob immediately said: "So, did you perform late-term abortions?"

This exchange now has pride-of-place between us. Rob can never even raise an eyebrow to whatever I say. He freed me! And I will attempt to re-claim first place.

Mike's advice is true, but who wants to believe that men are only thinking about sex and blowjobs? Don't men want to hear what women have to say about North Korea's bomb obsession and the current economic crisis?

It is Gerard Butler who has the tough role of saying the most sexist, rude and vulgar things without guile. He doesn't wink at the audience. And when the inevitable happens he doesn't realize that he just wants to take Abby away from Doctor Colin. Men are primeval warrior-hunters and once Mike spies the sexy doctor without his shirt on, the competition to win Abby is on.

Unless Abby can keep Mike on his toes surrounding herself with potential, highly educated suitors, she shouldn't bet the farm on him. Then again, there's that King Leonidas halo.

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"The Ugly Truth" takes everything that is rom-com to the hysterical max. It's a self-conscious glut of creamy skin, perfect wardrobes, spotless home furnishings, misogyny, chauvinism, inevitability and incessant banter. And how delightful it is.

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.

La commedia ese il 5 agosto in Gb,ma il Mirror non salva granchè...


http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2...15875-21564748/
Yet another rom-com that has bits to enjoy, but never really hits any great heights. Expect no real surprises as this is one of those "opposites attract" movies much beloved by Hollywood. There are a few laughs along the way, but in trying to give the film a raunchy edge the filmmakers actually diminish the "rom" factor.

Katherine Heigl continues to get better and better (she looks great, is darned funny and really carries the film) although I'm yet to be convinced or won over by Gerard Butler's he-man charms. There are some amusing moments as Mike tries to explain what men want and aims to coach Abby as she tries to get hunky doctor Colin (Eric Winter) to fall for her.

But while engaging and nicely done, it is all so, so familiar.

FINAL CUT 3

Expect a modest dose of romance and laughs

Altra recensione... a parte la citazion degli 'Italians mobsters'....mi sembra realistica e tutto sommato 'lusinghiera'...da una parte dice che il film fa molto più ridere di tante altre rom com...e dall'altra ammette che è molto poco realistico!

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Not every romantic comedy involving the battles of the sexes must necessarily fall into the obligatory category of “chick flick.” In any event, some have attached that label to “The Ugly Truth,” perhaps for no other reason than this frequently raunchy film has been curiously authored by three women.

My guess is that these women were probably crafting a vehicle for Gerard Butler, best known for running around half-clothed in the role of Leonidas, the Spartan King, in “300.” However, Butler doesn’t so much as drop a towel here, leaving that sort of disrobing to his rival.

Comedy is not always pretty, particularly when outrageous chauvinism bumps up against the sensitivity of a work environment where minimum standards of decency must be upheld.

“The Ugly Truth” takes gleeful joy in pushing some of the buttons of political correctness, and that approach alone is almost certain to generate visceral distaste from certain quarters that are practically obsessed with avoiding anything crass and crude.

It’s important to realize from the start that this comedy will take delight in outrageously racy situations while dropping the F-bomb like a bunch of Italian mobsters trading insults.

There’s little that’s new or exceptionally revealing about the comedic aspects of a heated battle between the sexes, but “The Ugly Truth” aims, though perhaps in the gutter, to deliver laughs at any cost.

Katherine Heigl’s Abby Richter is an ambitious yet uptight morning talk show producer on a Sacramento TV station. She’s a control freak who mistakenly believes in her ability to solve any problem.

Her show is suffering a ratings slump, a situation that is not improved by the fact that the morning anchors are a bickering married couple (Cheryl Hines and John Michael Higgins). For the sake of greater laughs, it would have been more fun if the squabbling newscasters had more screen time.

Abby’s boss decides to spice up the morning show by hiring Mike Chadway (Gerard Butler), a “shock jock” cable personality whose primal approach to relationship advice is guaranteed to cause friction.

Indeed, most of the tension is between Mike and his show producer, Abby, who is greatly offended by her on-air talent’s Neanderthal style.

As part of a segment on the morning show entitled “The Ugly Truth,” Mike spills the beans on what makes men tick in the gleefully chauvinistic manner that rubs Abby in all the wrong ways. To make matters worse, Mike’s rants become an instant ratings bonanza, sealing his network status.

Just when Abby despairs of finding Mr. Right, she meets her new neighbor Colin (Eric Winter), a hunky surgeon who’s suave, polite and ultimately boring. The good doctor is the opposite of Mike Chadway, an aficionado of female jello wrestling, and yet for some inexplicable reason, Abby decides she needs the loathsome TV personality’s insight into the male psyche in order to impress Colin on a date.

Like a modern day Cyrano, Mike coaches Abby through an earpiece at a baseball game, leading to predictable comic mishaps. The obliging Mike even helps her to dress seductively with a push-up bra in a low-cut cocktail dress. He also thoughtfully gives her remote-controlled vibrating panties that unexpectedly function all too well during an important business dinner.

Now, it is time for a movie quiz, because if you have been even remotely conscious while sitting through a string of romantic comedies, you already know the ugly truth of these screen relationships.

Does Abby end up with the handsome doctor, the man with impeccable manners and taste who could easily be Mr. Right, though he is as bland as white bread? Or does she get swept off her feet by the most unlikely suitor on the face of the planet, Mike the self-declared misogynist and defender of the primitive male? You might get a clue from the popular notion that opposites attract.

The truth about “The Ugly Truth” is that it offers plenty of laughs that have often been missing in the slew of female-oriented romantic comedies released in recent months.

Another truth that should not be overlooked is that there are many absurdly comic situations that bear absolutely no relationship to reality. For instance, the crass-talking Mike Chadway would most likely never last a week on network TV. Only Andy Rooney can get away with constant rambling rants.

Edited by gemini78 - 7/8/2009, 15:33

questa recensione è simpatica e invita anche a un sondaggio!

http://popwatch.ew.com/2009/08/06/ugly-truth-heigl-butler/

'The Ugly Truth': Vile or surprisingly enjoyable? Poll!
by Mandi Bierly
Categories: Everyone's a Critic, Film
By now, you’ve heard that The Ugly Truth, starring Katherine Heigl as a TV news producer who is forced to work with on-air “talent” (Gerard Butler) who preaches that men are exactly who women fear they are — then agrees to follow his advice to either land the man of her dreams or have the right to fire him — blows. I braved the 14 percent Tomatometer rating, finally saw it, and… I enjoyed it. Judging by the laughter I heard, so did others in the theater. (I know! I was surprised there were “others,” too. I’d expected a private screening like when I went to see Rhinestone in 1984.)

Now before you jump on me like a couple of colleagues did after reading my confession in my Facebook status (”That movie was really vile”), I’m willing to admit that my expectations were low knowing that the general response to the film has been disgust, and that I won’t be sitting through it as many time as I do The American President when it hits cable. But I’ve seen enough sappy romantic comedies — and enjoyed them too, full disclosure — that I somehow appreciated having to squirm in my seat as that vibrating panties scene went on waaaaay too long. (Though really, any woman would have taken the 30 seconds to change out of them before answering the door and heading out to dinner because they were black and her dress was white). Yes, the explicit sex talk sprinkled throughout was jarring in a glossy romantic comedy marketed to women (we don’t often hear the word “orifices”), and it could’ve been written more cleverly, but that jolt was something new. And again, I laughed. Frequently.

As for the film’s message: As scared as I am as a single woman to think that Butler’s character speaks the truth for most men, what he told Heigl’s to change about herself to land her guy (Eric Winter, in a role offensively generic) is no different than what women tend to do on their own in romantic comedies. The only difference is, women don’t usually talk about the sex-me-up, dial-my-Type-A-personality-down plan; the “evolution” is set to a musical montage so audiences don’t have enough quiet to debate for whom she’s really embracing her sexuality. (That said, I totally buy what Butler’s character said: If you don’t want to have sex with you, why should anyone else?) In the end, the ugly truth isn’t that all straight men want a woman who won’t challenge them or express a contrary opinion, but that even a smart woman is willing to pretend to be someone like that to get a guy who fulfills all the requirements on her checklist. At least when she does, she’ll realize that she’ll never be happy hearing him say “I love you” because she’ll always know that the “you” isn’t her. And you can’t blame a guy for liking a simple facade, if that’s what you built for him.

Anche questa è una onesta recensione:

http://tonight.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=...=347&fSetId=251


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The Ugly Truth may succumb to the cheesiness of its genre, but not before titillating the audience with its unconventional pairing, cheeky dialogue and risqué scenes.

Heigl is Hollywood's IT girl when it comes to rom-coms, but her allure is fast losing its sparkle with her appearance in similar roles. There is such a thing as overkill, which directors have conveniently ignored.

Butler's magnetism is manipulated marvellously on camera. With all eyes on the Scottish charmer, he merits every bit of attention. He plays his character with such boisterous abandon that he endears.

The contentious sexist theme may be as old as the hills and The Ugly Truth may offend the morality police with its execution but, in being so bald-faced, it is deliciously funny... and that's what counts, I guess!

If you liked...Knocked Up, What Happens in Vegas and The Proposal ... you should enjoy this.


Non a caso gli assegna tre stelle!!!

una bella recensione... piena di imprecisioni su Gerry,ma.. spero che tutti accolgano così il film!!!