Movie MarauderThe Ugly Truth
September 14th 2009 02:56
Abbie Richter (Katherine Heigl) is a career focussed, over analysing control freak who hasn’t managed to land her knight in shining armour but who is certain he exists. After pressure at work from her TV network bosses and falling ratings on her morning show, Abbie’s boss brings in a new face, Mike Chadway (Gerard Butler). Mike’s feature demonstrates what men really think and what they really want e.g. jelly wrestling. Abbie finds Mike completely offensive and sees his presence as the end of quality content in her show. The viewers, however, love him. Desperate to get rid of Mike, Abbie makes a bet with him that if he can successfully coach her into landing her new neighbour, hot Dr Colin, using his belief system of what men want, she will work with him on the show; otherwise he must leave for good . Unable to refuse the challenge, Mike accepts and sets about reinventing Abbie into the woman every man wants.
I thought this movie was just plain funny. There is definitely a warm up period at the beginning where I was in doubt. It’s probably to do with the fact that I wasn’t used to seeing characters quite like this. Sure there’s always the devilish, cheeky or outright bad boy but he’s not normally uncouth, a bit overweight and completely unfiltered when his thoughts are concerned. It took me a while to warm to Mike Chadway but by the end he’d won me over. The writers used a few tools to soften him up including the father figure role he plays to his nephew and the revelation that he’s been screwed over by women in the past but at the end of the day I think I just liked him because he was made a really funny team with Heigl. Heigl is absolutely adorable as Abbie. She’s funny, ballsy, neurotic and totally committed to the part. I’m a huge fan and this is fantastic performance.
The writing in The Ugly Truth is fast and witty. There are some hilarious situations and while we all know what happens in the end, it’s entertaining enough to be satisfied with that. You’ll pick up some similarities between Bridget Jones and Abbie Richter and probably with some of your own girlfriends. As for Mike, he’s somewhere between Stifler and most guys I know. Some feminists are up in arms about the chauvinism in the movie but if you’ve lived the real world you’ll see the ugly truth in all of it and have a good laugh.
The Ugly Truth
I thought this movie was just plain funny. There is definitely a warm up period at the beginning where I was in doubt. It’s probably to do with the fact that I wasn’t used to seeing characters quite like this. Sure there’s always the devilish, cheeky or outright bad boy but he’s not normally uncouth, a bit overweight and completely unfiltered when his thoughts are concerned. It took me a while to warm to Mike Chadway but by the end he’d won me over. The writers used a few tools to soften him up including the father figure role he plays to his nephew and the revelation that he’s been screwed over by women in the past but at the end of the day I think I just liked him because he was made a really funny team with Heigl. Heigl is absolutely adorable as Abbie. She’s funny, ballsy, neurotic and totally committed to the part. I’m a huge fan and this is fantastic performance.
The writing in The Ugly Truth is fast and witty. There are some hilarious situations and while we all know what happens in the end, it’s entertaining enough to be satisfied with that. You’ll pick up some similarities between Bridget Jones and Abbie Richter and probably with some of your own girlfriends. As for Mike, he’s somewhere between Stifler and most guys I know. Some feminists are up in arms about the chauvinism in the movie but if you’ve lived the real world you’ll see the ugly truth in all of it and have a good laugh.
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