Even when they produce their own Hollywood romcoms, why do female actors still allow themselves to be humiliated?
This movie is not bad in a fascinating way, like Waterworld; it is not even bad in a fabulous way, like Showgirls. It is bad in a way that saps your will to live and, fighting off strong competition from The Proposal (which we’ll return to) and GI Joe, it has won the impressive accolade of being the worst film of the summer. But I was curious about The Ugly Truth because it stars Katherine Heigl (right) aka the sub-Kate Hudson (a concept some people might think impossible after You, Me and Dupree, but these people have clearly never seen 27 Dresses, Heigl’s film last year, to say nothing of The Ugly Truth), and an actress who makes Jennifer Aniston look like a good picker of film projects. The intriguing thing about Heigl is that she infamously slated Judd Apatow’s 2007 comedy Knocked Up for being “a little sexist. It paints the women as shrews, as humourless and uptight, and it paints the men as goofy, fun-loving guys.” These points are all interesting (if wrong, but we’ll get back to
