The Ugly Truth

Heigl is said to have fallen out with Apatow since the making of Knocked Up. Maybe she should reconnect with him.

The film is desperate to be edgy, but its attempts at adult humour are woefully misjudged.

The ugly truth about this insipid romcom is that Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler are entirely wasted.

It's not as risqu as it wishes it were, nor as likable as it should be. Butler's rarely been better-cast, but the material's too patchy to support him .

We're left with a few giggles and the option to be offended by the gender stereotypes - if we can be bothered.

By the end, you actually want these two cardboard cutouts to get together.

Everything about it was obviously handed down from another source, and even while realizing that, you’ll probably find the result very watchable, if forgettable.

...everything that could snarl up happens here; unsympathetic leads, silly scenarios, a wealth of sexual crudity and a debatable truth about men and women that ends up feeling rather...ugly...

A hideously misguided attempt to marry girly chick-flick sentiment with laddish Judd-Apatow-style raunch.

Choppy, inconsistent, and largely unsatisfying despite the presence of two winning performers.