Pretty rudimentary, but it keeps Carrey's occasional over-exuberance in check and delivers likeable, effective, but decidedly mainstream comedy.
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06/24/06
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
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
Essentially, the actor is miscast here. Unlike [Robin] Williams, he isn't good with children. In fact, you don't even sense that he likes his child co-star. There's no apparent rapport.
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 Critic...a reliably entertaining slice of comic nonsense.
01/01/00
Unevenly acted, hatched from a one joke premise and trading precariously on a single performance, Liar Liar shouldn't be as funny as it is.
01/01/00
One of the reasons Liar, Liar works so well is that Carrey gets to bounce off an excellent supporting cast.
01/01/00
A product that has nothing, zero, zip going for it besides the presence of its star.
04/09/05
Carrey truly works his *** off to get a laugh.
09/18/05
I am gradually developing a suspicion, or perhaps it is a fear, that Jim Carrey is growing on me.
01/01/00
Top CriticJim Carrey Jim Carrey.
01/01/00
In the film, Carrey manages a balancing act that'll please his fans, but also promises to broaden his audience.
01/01/00
As Carrey's celebrated rubber does its patented act, the flick turns into a gyrational marathon -- mildly funny but seriously exhausting.
04/12/02
Top Critic...Liar Liar is hysterical.
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
Oh, I wasn't expecting much, really. And it was much better than Dumb and Dumber.
01/01/00
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
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
Finds an amusing premise and beats the hell out of it, propelling it into one hysterically funny situation after another.
09/10/02
With a little more concentration on the script and a little more subdued Carrey, this could have been a much better film.
01/01/00
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