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I
still don’t like most films marketed for kids. Occasionally one of these
movies will rise above itself and provide entertainment for members of the
audience that are over the age of say sixteen. Well, Big Fat Liar is not one of
those films that rises above itself. In fact the main entertainment I had in
this Shawn Levy directed film was the eye candy provided by the lovely Amanda
Detmer (Saving Silverman
& The Majestic).
However, she never even gets close to being naked in this PG film. As
to the story, Mr. Jason Shepard (Frankie Muniz from Malcolm in the Middle and Dr.
Dolittle 2) is a 14 year-old who can’t seem to tell the truth to either
his teacher or his parents. So when Jason forgets to write a paper for English,
he lies to the teacher about it, but of course the teach learns the truth.
However, the teacher is nice and gives Jason one last chance to get the paper
in, or he will flunk the class and have to take it over in summer school. Now
Jason has just a couple of hours to write a 1000 word paper and get it to his
teacher. Eventually he comes up with a great story about this guy who can’t
tell the truth and titles it Big Fat Liar. But on his way to deliver it to his
teacher, Jason runs into big Hollywood producer Marty Wolf’s limo (he’s in
town for production of his latest film). The two couldn’t care less about each
other, but Jason is able to secure a lift to the community college his teacher
is at. But on his way out of the car, Jason ends up leaving his paper behind. Of
course nobody believes his story, since why would Wolf (Paul Giamatti from Planet
of the Apes) be in Michigan, so Jason fails the class. Then comes summer and
Jason is in his boring class with a long weekend ahead. He and his best friend
Kaylee (Amanda Bynes) go to see a movie and end up seeing a trailer for next
summer’s big blockbuster to be, Big Fat Liar (BFL). So now Jason hatches a
plan to go to Hollywood and get Marty Wolf to call Jason’s dad (Michael Bryan
French) up and tell him that Jason wrote BFL so that Jason can regain his
father’s trust. Next the two head off for Hollywood leaving local bully Brett
(Taran Killam) to trick Kaylee’s grandmother into thinking she is visiting
(this is some of the funniest material in the film). Then they get to Hollywood
where Marty will do no such thing since he stole the idea fair and square, and
he is a generally bad and disliked person. Now the two have to figure out how to
force him to capitulate. Others
in this often unfunny comedy are Lee Majors, Josh Rusin, Donald Adeosun Faison (Scrubs
& Remember the Titans),
Lindsay Tryctha, Alex Breckenridge, Christine Tucci, Ned Brower, and many
others. The guys responsible for writing the film are Brian Robbins and Dan
Schneider.
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