Liar Liar

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Summary: This Is One Of Carrey's Best!
Review: I think that this is one of the best Jim Carrey movies ever. It's got all the laughs you could ask for. The funniest part of this film, is when Carrey tries to lie to himself.

Kids, teens, and adults would really enjoy this film. I suggest you get it as soon as possible. But only if you haven't seen it yet. Jim Carrey has a 24 hour curse. Meaning, he can't lie.

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Summary: Almost as good as Dumb and Dumber
Review: While not Carrey's very best film, this one is definitely a keeper. The story of a pathological lying lawyer, Liar Liar is riotously funny. I laughed out loud, repeatedly. There are tons of two-line quick conversations that make you squirm uncomfortably and bellyachingly guffaw simultaneously.

Why only four stars? Well, there's some touchy-feely parts with Carrey and his on-screen son that are annoying. However, they are necessary to a Christmas Carol-esque redemption story like this. Perhaps it's just the kid that's annoying. He would've been far better portrayed by a more mature child like the young Anakin Skywalker in "The Phantom Menace."

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Summary: Great Carrey comedy that isn't blatantly over the top.
Review: Jim Carrey plays a unscrupulous lawyer who lets his son down repeatedly to the point that, upon missing his sons birthday party, his boy uses his birthday wish to force his father to speak only the truth for a 24 hour period.

I was really glad to see Jim Carrey in a more serious role than what he'd been in up to this point from the point where he became popular with Ace Ventura. He still does facial contortions and silly humour in Liar Liar, but he also gets to play a serious side as well.

The real fun in this movie is when Jim's character wakes up the morning after his son makes the wish. From that point on it's almost just one laugh after another till the end. And the writer(s) did a good job of presenting situations in real life that most of us do tell lies.

As for the morality of the film, I think that's silly. I don't think it advocates lying and deceit, but even if it did, so what. I don't live my life through films nor do I pattern my actions by their example. I watched this movie to be entertained and to laugh, and I did so in copious amounts.

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Summary: Jim Carrey does it again
Review: Liar Liar is a great movie. It reminds me of the old days with my parents. Even though fathers do not seem to care much about their children, in actuality they do. It takes a lot for Jim Carrey to prove to his son that he does love him and that he will quit lying to people. His son does not beleive him, so on his birthday, (when his dad promised he would be there and he was not), he makes a wish that his dad will not lie anymore. Well, his wish comes true and all is not well in Jim Carrey land. Rent, watch, or buy this movie today you will not regret it.

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Summary: possibly the worst movie i've ever seen.
Review: I must say that after watching this movie I was almost compelled to believe that lying and cheating causes only temporary disasters. This is not reality, but this movie seems to encourage and advocate that even if you live a life of lies, you can make it in this world and everything will be hunky-dory. The fact that Jim Carrey basically destroyed his son's life but then makes everything up to him at the end when he finally keeps his word with him is hardly worth believing. And then, that he is able to get back with his wife in the end, after sleeping with numberous other women, and blatantly degrading her as a human, was to me, the funniest part of the flick. I found myself laughing not at the humor, but at the cold reality of how cruel and corrupt this world can be. This movie only encourages corrupt living and seems to attempt to rationalize that lying is A-ok as long as you tell the truth, once in a while. F-.

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Summary: Great
Review: It mainly makes fun of how lawyers lie. That's a good part. And he isn't allowed to lie. That's the best part

The beginning is hilarious: The teacher asks everyone what their parents do. She asks, "And what's your dad?" He replies, "a liar." I thought that was the funniest part ever. And his wife even cheats on him. Because of always lying. And she likes this other guy, and she almost divorces her husband (the one Carrey does) and it's the only way that he left the court.

Here's another funny thing: He can't EVEN write what color the pen was. Then he had a bunch of "BLUE" on his face.

And this girl asks him for advice to breaking the law. I'm gonna have to not say anything about that. Because it's the best part of the movie.

And the son's wish: That his dad can't lie for a full day. The sad part: He breaks a promise in part of it. And he was about to make him "un-wish" that.

Then it was time his wife was on the airport, but he REALLY wanted to stay with her. She got real nervous whenever she saw him. You shoulda seen what she did whenever she took that wrapper off.

And the deal with 'the claw.' She talks about how it impresses the kid. And how it's one quality of him. For anyone wanting to see the making fun of lawyers, this is for you.

The only flaw: The bathroom humor whenever he beats himeself up.

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Summary: My favorite Jim Carrey movie
Review: Liar Liar has only one fart joke. For Carrey, this is what's known as "admirable restraint". Not nearly as juvenile as his earlier comedies like The Mask, the Ace Ventura movies and the dreadful Dumb and Dumber and certainly not as downright wierd as his sort-of serious efforts like Truman, The Cable Guy and Man on the Moon. In Liar Liar, Carrey seems to have found a comfortable, albeit one movie, middle ground in his career. Carrey is like Robin Williams, in a way. Both have tremendous comedic talent but the talent has to be harnessed and directed in just the right way for the movie to resonate. Not unsurprisingly, Liar Liar features the most normal Carrey character in his career and about as normal a character as we can possible hope for from him. Fletcher Reed is a lying sleazebag at the beginning of the movie. His ONLY good grace is how much he loves his little boy. One day of enforced honesty teaches Fletcher the error of his ways. Enforcing honesty on a fundamentally dishonest person is a great "what-if" gag and the results are hilarious, thanks to Carrey's ability to turn any situation into spasmodic lunacy. Jim Carrey movies are about Jim Carrey. All of them. Completely, obviously and unashamably. Even the one supposedly about Andy Kaufman. He is a one man band and you'd better just sit still and watch. Doubly so if you're actually in the movie. If you don't like Carrey, you won't like any of his movies at all. If you do, you can't do any better than Liar Liar.

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Summary: "A Lawyer Lyer"
Review: This is a much cleaner movie for Jim Carrey, since his disgustingly perverted (but funny) "Me, Myself and Irene". The idea of magic letting a miracle happen for a caring child seems very boring and old, but this time it has very much involved with the plot. It shows that even the most honest lawyers out of their tuxedos are chronic lyers. Pretty much typical Jim Carrey and typical Jim Carrey is the greatest. It does send a positive message out though some of it is cheesy. But FUNNY. And more moral than other Jim Carrey performances.

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Summary: Silly tale of telling the truth. Funny, good lessons!
Review: I'm not particularly enamored with the Ace Ventura/Cable Guy side of Jim Carrey.

In this movie, he lets a little of that silliness out, and still manages to make this comedy feature some dramatic life lessons.

Honesty is the best policy. How many kids haven't wished for total honesty from their parents? This is a movie that will make you rethink the 'Santa Claus' fibs, the 'Easter Bunny' fibs, and so on. Of course, my kids bring me their teeth, and tell me how much the tooth fairy should be depositing under their pillow that night only because we giggle... they've known all along who it was.

I like the truth message. I like the love lost/love regained message.

I like the depth of the emotions in here, the height of hilarity, and hey, the movie was entertaining enough to see again and again.

Get it. Watch it with the kids. Heck, watch it alone with yer sweetheart because it's just so touching.

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Summary: JIM CARREY CAN'T ACT
Review: This is yet another Jim Carrey movie that features his terminally bad overacting. It's the same basic character he's done in all his movies, but now it's just under a different set of circumstances. Too bad a real comedic actor like Robin Williams didn't play the part. It might actually have been good.