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Big Fat Liar (2002)
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Reviews Counted:20
Fresh:6
Rotten:14
Average Rating:4.3/10
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.
Theatrical Release:Feb 8, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $47,811,275
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
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Reviews for Big Fat Liar
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02/21/04
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03/04/02
Top Critic[A]n utterly charming and hilarious film that reminded me of the best of the Disney comedies from the 60s.
02/11/02
Top CriticHome Alone goes Hollywood, a funny premise until the kids start pulling off stunts not even Steven Spielberg would know how to do. Besides, real movie producers aren't this nice.
02/11/02
Top CriticManages to be sweet and wickedly satisfying at the same time.
02/08/02
Top CriticA children's movie that's almost worth seeing even when not accompanied by a child.
02/08/02
Top CriticNever pushes its pranks far enough to reach laugh-out-loud success and never gives its actors enough comedic support.
02/08/02
Top CriticBecomes a progression of increasingly elaborate slapstick stunts, in the brutal, noisy Home Alone vein, in which the complexity of the pranks rarely yields a commensurate comic reward.
02/08/02
Top CriticIn gleefully, thumpingly hyperbolic terms, it covers just about every cliche in the compendium about crass, jaded movie types and the phony baloney movie biz.
02/08/02
Top CriticI'd be the one lying if I said that Muniz and his inspired payback aren't sometimes funny.
02/08/02
Top CriticThe overall effect is less like a children's movie than a recruitment film for future Hollywood sellouts.
02/08/02
Top CriticWhere there's dumb and dumber, there's invariably dumbest, a case in point being Big Fat Liar.
02/08/02
Top CriticFeels at times like a giant commercial for Universal Studios, where much of the action takes place.
02/08/02
Top CriticThe sort of movie that hands critics a dagger and invites them to plunge right in.
02/08/02
Top CriticThe movie's charm is that it has confidence in this goofy story and doesn't push it too hard.
02/08/02
Top CriticA lame collection of dumber-than-dumb gags, the quality of Big Fat Liar is on par with that of the worst television sit-com gorged to four times its normal size.
02/08/02
Top CriticIt'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 CriticPlays so flat, so to close its 'movie message' formula, that it seems as if we've seen this movie before.
02/07/02
Top CriticIt'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
Top CriticLatest 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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