Any film that can survive cameos from Urkel, Screech, and Lee Majors (answering to "Grandpa" and "Father Time") relatively intact deserves credit.
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02/07/02
Big Fat Liar (2002)
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Reviews Counted:88
Fresh:38
Rotten:50
Average Rating:4.9/10
Consensus: Though there's nothing that offensive about Big Fat Liar, it is filled with Hollywood cliches and cartoonish slapstick, making it strictly for kids.
Runtime: 88 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: An eighth grader named Jason (Frankie Muniz from MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE) presents elaborate excuses for never completing his class assignments. Finally his teacher catches him in one of his worst... [More]
Starring: Frankie Muniz, Amanda Bynes, Paul Giamatti, Isaiah Washington
Director: Shawn Levy
Reviews for Big Fat Liar
Exactly what it claims to be -- a simple diversion for the kids.
02/07/02
Fresh-faced leads Muniz and Bynes are charmers, Giamatti makes Wolf into a splendidly loathsome adversary, and the film is refreshingly free of bodily function jokes.
02/07/02
It's no surprise, alas, that Mr. Muniz and Ms. Bynes seem considerably smarter than the frantic knockabout comedy in which they find themselves trapped.
02/07/02
Top CriticThe film gets snaps just by attempting the high road, and should be enjoyed by its target audience.
02/07/02
Plays so flat, so to close its 'movie message' formula, that it seems as if we've seen this movie before.
02/07/02
It's hard to think of two young actors who could pump as much life into a movie as Frankie Muniz and Amanda Bynes do in Big Fat Liar.
02/07/02
Muniz and Giamatti are deft comic actors, but the highlight of this likeable family comedy is Bynes as Kaylee.
02/07/02
The result is so tame that even slightly wised-up kids would quickly change the channel.
02/07/02
A harmless and mildly amusing family comedy.
02/07/02
A funny, slick and generally entertaining updating of that overly familiar fable long used to teach children to tell the truth.
02/07/02
With its plethora of site gags, harmless vengeance and comic antics, it should strike pay dirt at the box office.
02/07/02
Confounds expectations and turns out to be one of the happiest surprises so far this year...coasts along on a wave of good, clean fun.
02/07/02
Kids will love this movie. Watching two of their favorite television stars beat up on a big, bad adult will keep them in their seats and laughing up every moment.
02/07/02
Let's call [Muniz] the next-generation Fred Savage.
02/07/02
Good Family fun, in the "Home Alone" vein.
02/07/02
...kept afloat by the screwball performance of noisy nebbish Paul Giamatti ...who is hilarious as the ego-mad, ugly-plaid, thinks-he's-bad, movie magnate.
02/07/02
Overall, it's a pretty mediocre family film.
02/06/02
It's no lie -- Big Fat Liar is a real charmer.
02/06/02
Latest News for Big Fat Liar
January 31, 2006:
Levy's "Museum" Hires a Few New Staff Members
Zap2it.com reports that British funnyman Ricky Gervais has signed on to appear in Shawn Levy's big-budget, high-concept adventure comedy "Night at the Museum." And to... More...
October 07, 2005:
Sommers Out, Levy In on "Museum"
Since Stephen ("The Mummy") Sommers will be helming the "When Worlds Collide" remake for Paramount, Fox needed someone to step in on their... More...
January 07, 2002:
Muniz, the young star of TV's Malcolm in the Middle, is stuck in the middle again, this time as a student whose class paper has been stolen by a Hollywood producer. 
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