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SINGAPORE : Abby (Katherine Heigl) is a tightly wound control freak talk-show producer with (despite shocking good looks) a zero success rate with men. Mike (Gerard Butler) is a chauvinistic pig and hugely popular shock jock who tells women what makes men really tick. He's brought into her show to boost ratings, they don't get along, and then - surprise! - he ends up falling for her.
Even as it swims in a veritable ocean of movie clichés (ladies' man eventually realises he has a heart, yadda, yadda), the ugly truth is plain to see: The painfully unclever script has nothing funny nor insightful to say about relationships beyond the obvious.
So we simply don't care much for our eye-candy leads who, despite having some genuinely cute NC16-moments, struggle with almost-hateful characters.
Don't even care for a piece-de-resistance panty-vibrating gag which, we figure, is to remind us of the classic Meg Ryan restaurant scene from "When Harry Met Sally".
Instead, it only just serves to highlight how "The Ugly Truth" desperately wants to be up there with the original Battle Of The Sexes greats, but simply ends up borrowing.
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