"Is there no more ingenuity in Hollywood?"

The disappointing thing about The Ugly Truth isn't that it's formulaic, stupid, and unfunny. It's that it's formulaic, stupid, and unfunny in all the usual ways. Is there no more ingenuity in Hollywood? Can no one think of new ways for movies to be irritating and pointless?

So we're in Sacramento, and Abby (Katherine Heigl) is the producer of a local morning news show, and she's a well-organized, unflappable, problem-solving control…