I didn't realise
it was this bad!
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Big Fat Liar
should change its name to Big Fat Turkey.
Neil Heath
This is an awful
film. It's as funny as getting your arm trapped in a bailing machine.
It makes Britney's 'Crossroads' look like an Oscar winner, and amazingly
it took two men to write it.
The plot
Frankie Muniz star of 'Malcom in the Middle', plays Jason Shepherd,
a school kid with an appetite for telling porkies.
After getting into trouble with his teacher over a late story assignment,
he's given a few hours to write a new one and return it to her,
or he'll have to spend the summer in school.
But after he bumps into a film producer's limo, Jason has his story
'Big Fat Liar', stolen.
The slimy producer Wolf (Giamatti), needs a box office hit and amazingly
he sees the potential for a smash hit in Jason's page long story.
Now it's up to Jason and school pal Kaylee (Bynes) to make the trip
to Hollywood and get Wolf to confess to his Father, that he has
stolen Jason's story.
Not exactly
Citizen Kane eh?
Review
A cross between Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Home Alone, the only
thing that this film establishes is that Frankie Muniz should stick
to sitcoms, and the writers shouldn't write.
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Considering
how bad some Hollywood films are, It wouldn't be surprising if some
producers did seek help from 14 year olds.
And it does feel
like Big Fat Liar was put together by a pubescent in a 30 minute
detention.
The irony of
this film is, whilst poking fun at producers - who think they're
more important than life itself - and their terrible films, they've
actually made a stinker themselves.
Yes, it is a kids film, but for a kid's film to be successful, it
has to appeal to adults, and it appeals about as much as drinking
poison.
Definitely not one to spend money on, wait for the Sunday morning
showing on TV in a few years time.
One final point, If the director, writers and producers of Big Fat
Liar can't be bothered to make a decent and enjoyable film, why
should you bother making the effort to see it?
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