The Ugly Truth

Hats off to director Robert Luketic and the talented cast of The Ugly Truth for bringing a sorely needed sense of raunchy back to the romantic comedy where it belongs. This saucy battle of the sexes wouldn’t be half as much fun to watch if it didn’t have a wicked sense that genre films like this are a lot funnier – and sexier – when they let the adults on the screen act like adults (who just happen to be beautiful movie stars). The movie stars Katherine Heigl as Abby, the producer of a struggling morning show that needs to come up with a gimmick to make more people tune it before the network executives turn it off forever. Enter Mike (Gerard Butler) the arrogant host of a cable access show called The Ugly Truth whose sole premise seems to be to prove that while women may think with their hearts men only think with their…