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Leah Rozen, People: WEAK (cg) "...doesn't know when to stop milking a joke.... Heigl works too hard to be primly cute, while Butler leans heavily on chest-thumping charm." (Read the full review...) 183 words, 07/23/09 Richard Corliss, Time: POOR "Something is very wrong when the beast is instantly more appealing than the beauty and when a comedy becomes an essay in misogyny." (Read the full review...) 993 words, 07/24/09 Ben Lyons, Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies: POOR (cg) Lyons: "Skip it." Mankiewicz: "Skip it." (Watch the full review...) 208 seconds, 07/25/09 Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...the two main characters aren't so much human beings as walking, talking extremes of he said/she said psychobabble.... it's vacuously snappy." (Read the full review...) 748 words, 07/24/09 Christy Lemire, Associated Press: WEAK (cg) "The idea of a woman being so rigid and frigid is purely archaic -- which is why it's so disheartening that the script comes from three women..." (Read the full review...) 272 words, 07/23/09 Claudia Puig, USA Today: POOR (cg) "...a charmless romantic comedy. The film is so predictable that it might as well have been written as a test classroom exercise in RomCom 101." (Read the full review...) 357 words, 07/24/09
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: POOR "...a cynical, clumsy, aptly titled attempt to cross the female-oriented romantic comedy with the male-oriented gross-out comedy..." (Read the full review...) 858 words, 07/24/09 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: POOR (cg) "Ugly is, indeed, the word for any comedy that manages to insult both its cast and audience with nearly every scene." (Read the full review...) 377 words, 07/24/09 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: MODERATE (cg) "...bogs down in relentless predictability and the puzzling overuse of naughty words.... Amazing that this raunchy screenplay was written by three women." (Read the full review...) 670 words, 07/23/09 Michael Phillips, Los Angeles Times/Chicago Tribune: POOR "...squanders the on-screen talent while perpetuating the image of career women as harpies with nice clothes and no dates." (Read the full review...) 636 words, 07/24/09 Lou Lumenick, New York Post: POOR (cg) "Romantic comedies are an increasingly debased genre, but few recent Hollywood products have been anywhere near as crass and contrived..." (Read the full review...) 538 words, 07/24/09 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: WEAK (cg) "Its crass sex jokes feel like chum for mentally stunted males, while its dimwitted storyline seems aimed at females who find paperback romances overly nuanced." (Read the full review...) 261 words, 07/24/09 Liam Lacey, Toronto Globe & Mail: POOR (cg) "Contrived as a crossover between a female-friendly romantic comedy and a male-targeted, anti-political correctness jab... veers between crude and cloying." (Read the full review...) 576 words, 07/24/09 Chuck Wilson, LA Weekly: WEAK "...proves again that in Hollywood, if not America itself, there are no new ideas..." (Read the full review...) 711 words, 07/23/09 Susan G. Cole, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "...the script, which already strains credulity, collapses entirely in the last 15 minutes during a hot-air balloon ride that gets broadcast live." (Read the full review...) 181 words, 07/23/09
Ruth McCann, Washington Post: GOOD (cg) "...takes everything that is rom-com to the hysterical max.... pleasingly glossy, refreshingly snarky and startlingly sexy." (Read the full review...) 318 words, 07/24/09 Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle/San Francisco Chronicle: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...doesn't waste much time on subtlety, mining its biggest laughs -- and there are several -- from rude, crude verbal combat and a pair of vibrating panties." (Read the full review...) 600 words, 07/24/09 Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: WEAK (cg) "Working with material this weak and poorly constructed, Heigl is helpless and adrift.... Butler turns on the easygoing charm, but it's not enough..." (Read the full review...) 389 words, 07/24/09 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: WEAK (cg) "So strong is the quicksand of mediocrity that it sucks down great comic talent like John Michael Higgins and Cheryl Hines, who play a husband-and-wife anchor team." (Read the full review...) 465 words, 07/24/09 Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: WEAK (cg) "...lacking in chemistry.... here's hoping that this unfunny comedy doesn't set both sexes back by 50 years." (Read the full review...) 597 words, 07/24/09 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: MODERATE (cg) "The movie has embarrassingly limited ideas about both the sexes and sex.... Abby appears to have never heard of intercourse, much less experienced it." (Read the full review...) 868 words, 07/24/09 Kara Nesvig, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...smart, sexy... neither writers, nor actors, nor director Robert Luketic shy away from the truth about the complicated state of affairs between men and women." (Read the full review...) 608 words, 07/24/09 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: MODERATE (cg) "...pretty predictable -- and a bit confused about whether it's aiming for romance or raunch. it's not particularly funny either." (Read the full review...) 610 words, 07/24/09 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: MODERATE (cg) "...mired in phoniness up to its neck. And above that, there's nothing.... While it elicits a few titters, 'The Ugly Truth' is deeply false." (Read the full review...) 295 words, 07/24/09 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: GOOD (cg) "...treads on well-trampled turf: the driven professional woman unlucky in love, thrown together with someone she can't stand until the last reel." (Read the full review...) 453 words, 07/24/09 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: WEAK (cg) "...they don't click as a couple, perhaps because they're kept apart by a wordy script overloaded with blue banter." (Read the full review...) 377 words, 07/24/09 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: POOR (cg) "There isn't a single moment that bears a remote resemblance to real life. This is an artificial, antiseptic movie about artificial, antiseptic people." (Read the full review...) 433 words, 07/24/09 Chris Kaltenbach, Baltimore Sun: POOR (cg) "An ugly variation on a tired theme. In this latest twist on the battle-of-the-sexes romantic comedy, everyone's a loser." (Read the full review...) 439 words, 07/24/09 Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: MODERATE (cg) "...marks off the romantic comedy checklist.... But just because it gets the boxes checked doesn't mean it'll rock your world." (Read the full review...) 641 words, 07/24/09
Chuck Wilson, LA Weekly: WEAK "...proves again that in Hollywood, if not America itself, there are no new ideas..." (Read the full review...) 711 words, 07/23/09 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: POOR (cg) "...sexist swill. There's not a genuine laugh in it, unless you think vibrating underwear is hoot material." (Read the full review...) 187 words, 07/24/09 Tom Meek, Boston Phoenix: MODERATE (cg) "Heigl has honed her sexy naïveté. She even delivers a dinner-table-orgasm scene worthy of Meg Ryan. Too bad it's wasted on this jerk-off." (Read the full review...) 136 words, 07/23/09 Susan G. Cole, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "...the script, which already strains credulity, collapses entirely in the last 15 minutes during a hot-air balloon ride that gets broadcast live." (Read the full review...) 181 words, 07/23/09
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: POOR "...a cynical, clumsy, aptly titled attempt to cross the female-oriented romantic comedy with the male-oriented gross-out comedy..." (Read the full review...) 858 words, 07/24/09 Joanne Kaufman, Wall Street Journal: POOR "...none of this would matter, or wouldn't matter as much, if the movie had even a moment of freshness or wit, one honest laugh. It doesn't -- and that's the ugly truth." (Read the full review...) 297 words, 07/24/09 Michael Phillips, Los Angeles Times: POOR "...squanders the on-screen talent while perpetuating the image of career women as harpies with nice clothes and no dates." (Read the full review...) 636 words, 07/24/09
Todd McCarthy, Daily Variety: WEAK "Wrap-up is inevitable but needlessly hokey and undercut by awfully artificial process photography and visual effects, and a cloying musical score." (Read the full review...) 814 words, 07/20/09 Stephen Farber, Hollywood Reporter: FAIR "Hit-and-miss comedy delivers the unsurprising news that opposites attract.... has just enough laughs to squeak by.... wildly uneven." (Read the full review...) 700 words, 07/20/09 Michael Phillips, Los Angeles Times: POOR "...squanders the on-screen talent while perpetuating the image of career women as harpies with nice clothes and no dates." (Read the full review...) 636 words, 07/24/09 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: POOR "...a cynical, clumsy, aptly titled attempt to cross the female-oriented romantic comedy with the male-oriented gross-out comedy..." (Read the full review...) 858 words, 07/24/09 Joanne Kaufman, Wall Street Journal: POOR "...none of this would matter, or wouldn't matter as much, if the movie had even a moment of freshness or wit, one honest laugh. It doesn't -- and that's the ugly truth." (Read the full review...) 297 words, 07/24/09
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