The Ugly Truth is a lame, badly written comedy. Sure Gerard Butler has a few good lines (not great lines, mind you) in the beginning, but this is a highly formulaic robo-comedy, with everything on auto pilot aimed at the lowest common denominator . The gags are so labored:  she wears the vibrating panties to the big corporate dinner – that’s pretty desperate humor. The scene in the ball park is even more embarrassingly desperate. When they fall in love you don’t even care it’s so badly written, and the film’s ending is one of the worst I have ever seen for a comedy like this.  It’s almost as if they suddenly ran out of money and had to wrap it up in a 30 second scene. Horrible.

By the way, what the hell is going on with Katherine Heigl’s head? I swear it’s shrinking. At the very least she is looking very strange. It may be the way she was shot, or that she is getting started on the plastic surgery early in her career. Anyway, she just looks bizarre and her comic performance is pretty poor (not that she was working with much, script-wise.) It makes you realize how important Judy Greer and James Marsden were to her in 27 Dresses, where she came off a whole lot better. She’s not an actress that can carry a movie alone.

The critics got in right on this one: skip it.