THE UGLY TRUTH

DIRECTOR: Robert Luketic

CAST: Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler

rating: HH

IT’S a truth universally acknowledged in the reel world that a single man in possession of good fortune, with little respect for women and littler for love, will eventually go for a woman who hates him for it.

And don’t expect Luketic to go around breaking any universal truths, not even having the despicable, “misogynist” TV anchor played by Butler turning up for work shaved and in a suit. Of course, he wears a sweatshirt, a two-day old stubble, and a mop of uncombed hair. There’s another cinema fact that Luketic zealously sticks to: a successful woman will have a lousy love life but neatly combed hair in a ponytail; and once she corrects the first, she will undo the second.

There is little here that you haven’t seen before, except the strangest TV station perhaps on air and underwear with vibrator operated by a remote. And that’s the ugly truth.