A sickly soft-swirl confection of low laughs and smarmy sentiment...
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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
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Reviews for Liar Liar
...Liar Liar lets Carrey show you the funny...
01/01/00
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01/01/00
A lot of fun, especially when Carrey reels off an entire lifetime's worth of driving offences to a nearby cop.
12/14/08
What's best about this script is the premise: a lawyer who doesn't lie.
01/01/00
Its premise is flimsy, but its payoff is riotously funny.
01/01/00
Top Critic...Liar Liar is hysterical.
01/01/00
Jim Carrey Jim Carrey.
01/01/00
To his credit, Carrey is right for this sort of role, as his physical and facial contortions appropriately convey his character's shock and disbelief. But there are only so many jokes to be had with this as the film's centrifugal force.
01/01/00
Carrey's willingness to do anything for a laugh, like pounding his head with a toilet seat, almost pays off.
09/03/02
...a reliably entertaining slice of comic nonsense.
01/01/00
It’s a magnificent comic experience.
01/01/00
Top CriticAfter 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
Pretty rudimentary, but it keeps Carrey's occasional over-exuberance in check and delivers likeable, effective, but decidedly mainstream comedy.
06/24/06
In the film, Carrey manages a balancing act that'll please his fans, but also promises to broaden his audience.
01/01/00
All-in-all, Liar Liar is pretty good fun, and it represents one of Carrey's most entertaining movies to date.
01/01/00
Top CriticWhile the humor is absolutely hilarious, the sentiment is overly sappy, and several times that conflict risks sinking this otherwise sturdy vehicle.
02/27/01
Well into his tumultuous career, Mr. Carrey finally turns up in a straightforward comic vehicle, and the results are much wilder and funnier than this mundane material should have allowed.
01/01/00
Top Critic...Liar Liar stands to make a liar out of those who predicted that Carrey's career was on the skids.
11/06/02
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