A lot of fun, especially when Carrey reels off an entire lifetime's worth of driving offences to a nearby cop.
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12/14/08
Liar Liar (1997)
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Reviews Counted:49
Fresh:41
Rotten:8
Average Rating:7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: An unctuous, smooth-talking divorce attorney's propensity for propitious prevarication may wow the juries, but his five-year-old son Max wants an end to the lies. So when Dad blows off the boy's... [More]
Starring: Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Jennifer Tilly, Swoosie Kurtz
Director: Tom Shadyac
Reviews for Liar Liar
Top CriticPretty rudimentary, but it keeps Carrey's occasional over-exuberance in check and delivers likeable, effective, but decidedly mainstream comedy.
06/24/06
Top Critic...a reliably entertaining slice of comic nonsense.
01/01/00
Top CriticA sickly soft-swirl confection of low laughs and smarmy sentiment...
12/14/08
Close to an ideal jumping-off point for Carrey, who spends the better part of an hour grotesquely physicalizing his scummy lawyer's struggle with being obliged to utter cold, hard facts.
11/21/08
Top CriticCarrey truly works his *** off to get a laugh.
09/18/05
A product that has nothing, zero, zip going for it besides the presence of its star.
04/09/05
After a while, Jim Carey's character making a fool of himself is becoming annoying and the ultra-sentimental finale doesn't ring a little bit true.
01/16/04
Entregando-se com uma energia assustadoramente feroz ao personagem, Jim Carrey comprova mais uma vez seu dom para a comédia física e transforma O Mentiroso em um filme simplesmente hilário.
07/28/03
Strong on premise, the film is short on plot.
05/20/03
Like Robin Williams, Carrey has learned to do his side-splitting shtick in character. He's not only under control, but funnier than ever as the truth-impaired Fletcher Reede.
04/26/03
While the ending is a little too syrupy for my taste, it is still a very funny film, mostly because of Carrey's antics.
03/16/03
...Liar Liar stands to make a liar out of those who predicted that Carrey's career was on the skids.
11/06/02
The effect is surprisingly touching. No matter what you think of his humor, by gum, the man works hard.
10/15/02
Finds an amusing premise and beats the hell out of it, propelling it into one hysterically funny situation after another.
09/10/02
Carrey's willingness to do anything for a laugh, like pounding his head with a toilet seat, almost pays off.
09/03/02
...Jim Carrey makes a wild and remarkable comeback to cheerfulness...
06/18/02
...just hilarious enough to restore trust in the star's bankability.
06/05/02
I have to admit that I generally don't like Jim Carrey but I thoroughly enjoyed Liar, Liar.
04/17/02
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