The trailer for The Ugly Truth, the romantic comedy starring Gerard Butler and Katherine Heigl is up at the film’s official website. The premise of this film sounded downright terrible — a television producer is forced to deal with a chauvinistic correspondent, who decides to teach her what men want so that she can find love, with the pair discovering “an unexpected result” along the way. Could that result be … love? Yeah, probably.

But you know what? The trailer’s not half bad, and it really does seem like an updated and raunchier Pillow Talk. Plus, it’s rated R, which gives me a lot of hope that it could be something akin to a Judd Apatow movie. I really expected a lot of PG-13 chauvanism, not lessons on how to sexily eat a hot dog, or Butler using the phrase “ladygarden.”

Maybe I’m just a sucker for a Butler movie after all. I slagged him off a bit last week, but he’s just so darn charming, even when he’s being a total sleaze. Then again, 2 hours of him saying things like “Get on a Stairmaster!” might be an emotionally unpleasant experience. I like escapism in my movies. If I wanted to hear guys saying that kind of stuff to me, I’d just go to a Denver bar and wait ten minutes. It’d be cheaper than a movie ticket.

The Ugly Truth opens April 3rd, 2009.